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Landes Answers to 'Why are we so rich and they so poor?'
In response to his question about global wealth disparity, David Landes suggested that the explanations can be grouped into two main camps. The first camp attributes the economic success of the West to positive internal factors, such as its culture and institutions like the Protestant Reformation or the development of private property rights. The second camp argues that this success was achieved through the exploitation of other societies, for example, through colonialism and slavery.
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