5.1. SETTING THE PAST IN ITS ECONOMIC CONTEXT SHOWS HOW THINGS WORK

 MENU: 5.1. HISTORY & ECONOMY

MOST ACCOUNTS SUBSITUTE A STRAIGHT POLITICAL NARRATIVE OR STRESS IDEAS OR INDIVIDUALS — ANYTHING EXCEPT THE UNDERLYING ECONOMY AND WHOM IT FAVORS 

That omission is usually involuntary. It is so engrained that we do not notice it.

As in Old Regime France, where an insult among the humble was "your father was a valet." For why they unknowingly reinforced their subordination, please click.

This section shows history

as a schoolbook tells it

and suggests an alternative.

• An account that makes no sense

• "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" lets capitalism take wing   

• The Revolution of 1830: capitalism's neglected triumph 

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5.1.1.

An account that makes no sense