{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.020994475138121547, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 5.0, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Global economic history

Study Questions To help guide your thinking and understanding of the material, I offer a few questions. Some questions are simple straightforward specific questions, with answer in the text by Allen. I include these questions to highlight important ideas and facts (not to make busy work). I have also included a few interpretative questions. These, I hope, require some thought about the material, and especially how ideas connect across chapters. This is an excellent book that provides a concise summary of the significant empirical patterns and findings that motivate our plan of study throughout the semester. At a minimum after reading this book you should have • a working understanding of the Industrial Revolution; • an appreciation of the relative recentness of sustained economic growth; • a basic understanding of why some countries are rich and while others are poor.