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The Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu demonstrates how the settlement patterns of European colonialists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries were determined by infectious diseases.[39] Where death rates were low—in New England, for example—men brought their families, settled down and built new societies in the image of the ones they’d just left; in this endeavor they were aided by infectious diseases that decimated the indigenous population. These colonies grew into wealthy democracies that although imperfect were relatively responsive to the needs of the electorate. Where ...more
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