Tom's edits July 26 of growth evidence lecture

thomassargent30 · thomassargent30 · commit d1523ad9a47a · 2023-07-26T13:19:39.000-06:00
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 Such "growth facts" are  interesting for a variety of reasons.  
 
-Explaining them is a principal purpose of both "development economics" and "economic history".
+Explaining growth facts is a principal purpose of both "development economics" and "economic history".
 
-And the growth facts are important inputs into historians'  studies of  geopolitical forces and dynamics.
+And  growth facts are important inputs into historians'  studies of  geopolitical forces and dynamics.
 
 
-Thus, Adam Tooze's account of the geopolitical precedents and antecedents of World War I begins with  a comparison of how Gross National Products of European Great Powers had evolved during the 70 years preceding 1914 (see chapter 1 of {cite}`Tooze_2014`).
+Thus, Adam Tooze's account of the geopolitical precedents and antecedents of World War I begins by describing how Gross National Products of European Great Powers had evolved during the 70 years preceding 1914 (see chapter 1 of {cite}`Tooze_2014`).
 
 Using the very same data that Tooze used to construct his figure, here is our version of his chapter 1 figure.
 
