Building Global Economy

Modern Economic Growth

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Productivity

Industrial Revolution

Richard Arkwright - Factory System

James Watt - Steam Engine

Abraham Darby - Iron

Bessemer Process - Steel

Michael Faraday - Electricity

Fredrick Taylor - Scientific Management

Age of Progress

Automation

Luddities

Network Effect

Globalization 

"Workshop of the World"

George Stephenson - The Rocket

Robert Fulton - The Clermont

Samuel Morse - Telegraph

Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone

Gottlieb Daimler & Karl Benz - Car

Wright Brothers - Airplane

Standardized Cargo Containers

Knowledge Economy

Technological Leap Frogging

Urbanization

Mega Cities

Surplus Population

Manchester - Cottonopolis

John Snow - Cholera

Joseph Chamberlain - Birmingham

Municipal Socialism

Agglomeration

Migration (Global Free Migration)

Louis Pasteur - Germ Theory of Disease

Green Revolution

World Health Organization - Smallpox

Capitalism

Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations

Socialism

Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto

Labor Unions - Collective Bargaining

John Stuart Mill

Labour Party

Social Welfare Programs

John Maynard Keynes

Thirty Golden Years

"off-shoring"

"deindustrializing"

Knowledge Economy