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Historian, Rutger Bergman, claims there was little difference between life in 1300 and 1870 for Italian peasants. Is that really the case?

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Have there been large scale free market experiments in the past? Did rulers or colonisers test out free market (laissez faire) economics on entire populations?

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Has there ever been a state where the leader was chosen at random?

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Theory that availability of cheap paper was the driving force behind a civilisation's significance

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Historian, Rutger Bergman, claims there was little difference between life in 1300 and 1870 for Italian peasants. Is that really the case?	27
Have there been large scale free market experiments in the past? Did rulers or colonisers test out free market (laissez faire) economics on entire populations?	1
Has there ever been a state where the leader was chosen at random?	1
Theory that availability of cheap paper was the driving force behind a civilisation's significance	0