Lecture 7 - Industrial Expansion & Consolidation

“No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.” - Mark Twain, Gilded Age

The eternal constraint of human and animal energy in production was instantly eclipsed by carbon sources, kicking off the Second Industrial Revolution.

But rapidly rising wealth driven by continuous processes of manufacturing was accompanied by occasional class conflict in the factories and across society.

We'll end with a discussion on the role of Creative Destruction in this GDP-pushing process, and how social and technology tensions have played out in the past as a model for understanding how they may play out in the future.

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