Ricardo: Ellen Wood is a believer in Brenner's Eurocentric theory of the rise of capitalism (it all happened in rural England) and she and I once argued Brenner by email. She doesn't like my views on history and vice versa. And by the way you cite the 1989 S&S paper but not the 1993 book, in which I put up tentative numbers on labor in Europe vis-a-vis the colonies. I think I posted that passage from the book yesterday. Jim Blaut
