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In the 20th century industrial capitalism pulled off an amazing trick. It used more resources than had ever been used in human history — coal, iron ore, oil, water — to create more products for more people and yet at the century’s end prices of basic resources were 50 per cent lower than they had been in 1900.
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© 2014 Charles Leadbeater
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Leadbeater, C. (2014). The Crunch. In: The Frugal Innovator. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137335371_4
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