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Revision 192 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
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“Imported from content/10-society.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”
Revision 192 · 2026-09-30 05:09 UTC
atlas import import · claude-opus-5-5
“Imported from content/10-society.json, curated for the atlas by Claude Opus 5.5 at the direction of Danielle Fong (September 2026).”

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Candidate explanations include institutions, geography, culture, coal and colonial extraction. Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won the 2024 economics Nobel for evidence on institutions from natural experiments. East Asia's catch-up shows convergence is possible, and nobody knows a recipe that reliably reproduces it.

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