City States
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Ridley: Small, free-trading city-states generate the most innovation
“The general point you can make, and this applies to Renaissance Italy and ancient Arabia and, Ancient China, and so on as well is that city states tend to be innovative, that, that, that independent, relatively small political units that are very vigorous trad…”