... of Britain, technological developments were funded with profits made from the transatlantic slave trade, and profits made were continuously re-invested in British manufacturing machinery and most notably James Watts's steam engine. Watt's himself often expressed great gratitude to owners of West Indian slaves who directly invested in his invention. In the work of Nigerian historian Joseph Inikori "Africans and the ... ...

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... cut out to be a workingman's revolutionary, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art and a graduate of Cambridge University, nonetheless he transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social program. Before Keynes economists were gloomy naysayer's. "Nothing can be done" "Don't interfere" "It will never work", but Keynes was an optimist. "Of course we can lick unemployment ... ...

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