Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
>
> > I can see Jim Blaut up on a cloud right now, with a harp in one hand
> > and a bottle of beer in the other, smiling down at Ricardo's post.
>
> Yes, he has every right to if we continue making blanket
> statements about superior European productivity without drawing
> distinctions between land and labor productivity; between labor
> saving and land saving innovations; between the ecology of wheat
> and rice cultivation, and perhaps as well between land and *grain*
> productivity, because these grains have very different
> chemical/organic characteristics. Every post I have sent here is
> connected to every other in a systematic way. Each makes sense
> in light of the others.
And each is a bloody worth-while read, Ricardo. Keep serving 'em up!
Rob.
