We already have a variety of related tags, like History, Economic Growth, and Persistence of Political/Cultural Variables. But the Industrial Revolution does seem like perhaps the single most notable episode of history for many/all EA cause areas, so maybe we should have a tag just for it?
My guess is that a better tag would be “History of Economic Growth”. Because I can’t picture a case where someone wants to find things about the industrial revolution but not all of economic growth. (Unless they’re doing a specific research project, but that sounds pretty niche.)
But even still, I’d tentatively lean towards economic growth being enough. But I think that depends on how fine-grained our tagging system should be, which I don’t have a strong opinion on.
Industrial Revolution
We already have a variety of related tags, like History, Economic Growth, and Persistence of Political/Cultural Variables. But the Industrial Revolution does seem like perhaps the single most notable episode of history for many/all EA cause areas, so maybe we should have a tag just for it?
Some posts that would warrant the tag:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7QiXR2dv8KL4fkf9D/notes-on-henrich-s-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-2020
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TMCWXTayji7gvRK9p/is-democracy-a-fad
Maybe https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XXLf6FmWujkxna3E6/are-we-living-at-the-most-influential-time-in-history-1
My guess is that a better tag would be “History of Economic Growth”. Because I can’t picture a case where someone wants to find things about the industrial revolution but not all of economic growth. (Unless they’re doing a specific research project, but that sounds pretty niche.)
But even still, I’d tentatively lean towards economic growth being enough. But I think that depends on how fine-grained our tagging system should be, which I don’t have a strong opinion on.
This seems reasonable. I was also unsure about my suggestion, hence popping it here rather than making it. I’ll hold off for now, at least.