07 May 2019

When Did Key World Cities Develop Economically?

London and Amsterdam were already well ahead of their peers in 1738. Leipzig started to break away from Beijing and Milan around 1815. Amsterdam dropped from being a peer of London to a peer of Leipzig around 1839. Beijing and Milan had comparable levels of prosperity and development from 1738 until at least 1913, on the eve of World War I.


Via Jared Rubin on Twitter.

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