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The Glorious Revolution: William III of Orange is read the
Bill of Rights before being offered the crown of England by
parliament After Edgar Melville Ward/The Bridgeman Art
Library/Getty Images
The bubonic plague of the fourteenth century creates a
critical juncture (The Triumph of Death painting of the Black
Death by Brueghel the Elder) The Granger Collection, NY
Beneficiary of institutional innovation: the King of Kuba Eliot
Elisofon/Time & Life Pictures/Getty
The emergence of hierarchy and inequality before farming:
the grave goods of the Natufian elite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Natufian-Burial-ElWad.jpg
Extractive growth: Soviet Gulag labor builds the White Sea
canal SOVFOTO
Britain falls far behind: the ruins of the Roman empire at
Vindolanda Courtesy of the Vindolanda Trust and Adam
Stanford
Innovation, essence of inclusive economic growth: James
Watt’s steam engine The Granger Collection, NY
Organizational change, a consequence of inclusive
institutions: the factory of Richard Arkwright at Cromford
The Granger Collection, NY
Fruits of unsustainable extractive growth: Zheng He’s ship
alongside Columbus’s Santa Maria Gregory A.
Harlin/National Geographic Stock