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Lime is a blind spot in economic history: cheap coal made it widely available as a soil treatment and raised farm output, and the standard growth estimates barely mention it.
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- Anton Howes Historian of innovation
Yet lime is a huge blind spot for economic historians, despite it increasing the productivity of what was still by far the largest portion of the economy: agriculture.
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↗Age of Invention: Lessons from the Rise of Coalageofinvention.xyz
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