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En prenant en compte l’ensemble des conflits militaires du continent et des années concernées, on constate que les pays européens étaient en guerre 95 % du temps au XVIe siècle, 94 % au XVIIe siècle et encore 78 % au XVIIIe siècle (contre 40 % au XIXe et 54 % au XXe siècle). La période 1500-1800 met en jeu une rivalité militaire incessante entre puissances européennes, et c’est ce qui nourrit le développement d’une capacité fiscale sans précédent, ainsi que de nombreuses innovations technologiques, en particulier en matière de canons et de navires de guerre.
Capital Et Idéologie
Thomas Piketty
An internationally renowned scientist (whom you will meet toward the end of this book) told me that increasing specialization has created a “system of parallel trenches” in the quest for innovation. Everyone is digging deeper into their own trench and rarely standing up to look in the next trench over, even though the solution to their problem happens to reside there.
There always will be limits to growth. They can be self-imposed. If they aren’t, they will be system-imposed. No physical entity can grow forever. If company managers, city governments, the human population do not choose and enforce their own limits to keep growth within the capacity of the supporting environment, then the environment will choose and enforce limits.
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
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