In the mid-19th century, Japan was an impoverished feudal backwater. A fleet of American warships totally humiliated their navy, and
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About Paul Ormerod
Paul Ormerod is an economist at Volterra Partners LLP, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCL, and author of Against the Grain: Insights of an Economic Contrarian, published by the IEA in conjunction with City A.M.
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