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Podcast: Coming to America
Episode: Progress Vs Parasites. chapter 6. Venice - miracle on a mud bank
Description: Why do certain societies flourish, while others fail? Â Why, at certain times in history, have some people prospered? Â
Once a week, Douglas reads a chapter of his most recent book, Progress Vs Parasites, which looks at human progress over the past two thousand years - and shows how it is freedom, and ideas about liberty, that explain so much about civilisation. Â