The author links to pseudoerasmus's blog post about Empire of Cotton as if it were a refutation of Empire of Cotton's thesis. But that blog post is a summary, n

The author links to pseudoerasmus's blog post about Empire of Cotton as if it were a refutation of Empire of Cotton's thesis. But that blog post is a summary, not a critique--the author says this explicitly in its comments. The closest the author comes to a critique is an aside in this post: https://pseudoerasmus.com/2015/04/26/mccloskey-cotton-ir/ https://pseudoerasmus.com/2015/04/26/mccloskey-cotton-ir/ with similar points made earlier in: https://pseudoerasmus.com/2014/11/10/slavery_and_industrialism/ https://pseudoerasmus.com/2014/11/10/slavery_and_industriali... ...which is far from open-shut, in my reading of it. It's a tangential point, I guess, but worth considering in evaluating the plausibility of the whole argument.