POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Modernization Theory, October 9, Industrial Revolution
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Last week continuation; article lays out not only its own theory of development but also other theories-common thing academic articles will do. One of the other theories for why some are wealthier than others is called; A) ethic fragmentation creates wealth or b) wealth leads to ethic fragmentation from the equator. Studies show that connection between closest to the equator and poverty. No good explanation of why distance for the equator would lead to wealth. Obviously there is no argument in this to advance-they are trying to come up with some causal correlations- have not come up with anything good. This argument can be about climate- climate is a factor that could explain poverty- political scientists found the same problem with that of climate. In general the theories have been fairly unsatisfactory-they have a racist overtone people in hot countries are lazy- they do not have the work ethic.
