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The 1850s is a great launching decade of industrialization.
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Now I'm going to give you
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a counter-argument to that in just a minute.
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There are two economists named
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Claudia Golden and Frank Lewis
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who have estimated, estimated the actual price of the american Civil War;
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they put a price tag on it.
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The cost of lives lost, and of wounds, that reduced productivity--
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these are their variables and their factors--
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the cost of lives lost and wounds that reduced productivity,
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as well as property destroyed,
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and factoring in government expenditures to fight the war,