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i would go out on a limb and suggest that the americans invented mass consumer credit, which lead to the information and communications revolution.
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it looks like the dutch invented capitalism in the 17th century. but it were the british who started pushing it to the limit in the 18th century. the first industrial revolution was just a side effect of this social development.

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