No examples coming to mind
Has a rich country ever had a Civil War
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Not sure what the mechanism is but Yugoslavia was maybe approaching that, Northern Ireland was higher I think, although that's not an all out civil war.
What is rich? Interwar Spain was not that developed, but IDK. Yugoslavia was probably at a higher economic level than interwar Spain, albeit with big regional variation. US standard of living was surely among the highest in the world in 1860.
Above $10k per capita
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Wait, huh? Why is $10K in current dollars the absolutely arbitrary cutoff? Wealth should be understood as relative to the period.
Darleen's right. By most estimates, France was the wealthiest country in the world (certainly in Europe) in 1789.
The UK was about the eighth or tenth wealthiest country in the world during the War of the Roses.
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Wait, huh? Why is $10K in current dollars the absolutely arbitrary cutoff? Wealth should be understood as relative to the period.
Darleen's right. By most estimates, France was the wealthiest country in the world (certainly in Europe) in 1789.
The UK was about the eighth or tenth wealthiest country in the world during the War of the Roses.Because a population of illiterate 20 year olds with low income behaves nothing like a wealthy, old, fat population that’s why.
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Wait, huh? Why is $10K in current dollars the absolutely arbitrary cutoff? Wealth should be understood as relative to the period.
Darleen's right. By most estimates, France was the wealthiest country in the world (certainly in Europe) in 1789.
The UK was about the eighth or tenth wealthiest country in the world during the War of the Roses.Because a population of illiterate 20 year olds with low income behaves nothing like a wealthy, old, fat population that’s why.
I mean, if you're looking for a bugalu analogue, you're not gonna find one in history, because it has no chance of happening. There's a reason for that, political science tellsm me.
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Wait, huh? Why is $10K in current dollars the absolutely arbitrary cutoff? Wealth should be understood as relative to the period.
Darleen's right. By most estimates, France was the wealthiest country in the world (certainly in Europe) in 1789.
The UK was about the eighth or tenth wealthiest country in the world during the War of the Roses.Yup, true dat.
Enlightenment France was the gold standard of western civilization and even to this day speaking French connotes style and class .
England was pretty well off during its civil war as well, esp. those areas that could grow, transport and sell significant amounts of wool.
+1 to ya, G. !