Day 121|耐力练习

原文摘自每日英语听力“经济学人”栏目4.30内容。

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It is possible that population is destiny, other things equal, but other things are never equal.

And so a plague here, or a fateful decision by a Chinese emperor there, can set a region down a path that wipes out the advantages of population.

Perhaps those advantages must be harnessed by the right sorts of institutions, or an accommodating culture-which take far longer to develop or adopt than technologies do to emerge.

There is no academic consensus regarding what determines economic fortunes over long time horizons, important though the question is.

Alternatively, one might argue that conditions have changed in ways that amplify the power of population.