My Leaky Brain

johnthelutheran:

Oh, I *love* this chart: The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph.

Of the many, many fascinating nuggets of information contained in it, the one that really stands out is how brief a historical blip China’s relative economic eclipse has been. Normal service is being resumed.

2000 Years of economic history in one little log-x-scale graph…