Geographer

So there was a pool of enough of skilled labor to pull the inventions such as steam engine and steamboat to pull it off.

And then you have the process of mutual interactions that Geographers, scholars working in regional economies, Alan Pratt is one of the great geographers, were writing from the 60s exactly causal mechanisms that Paul Krugman and New Economy Geography later on put into a general equilibrium model.

So these mechanisms were very well understood.

So again, it's the is agglomeration economies with transportation sector, which allows first nature geography to play a big role.

Uh, I first encountered Ibn Au-Jawzi, um, in, uh, Roy Mottahede's seminar.

Uh, this was a seminar called, um, uh, Arabic Historians, Biographers, and Geographers.

Uh, and, uh, at that time, I encountered Ibn Au-Jawzi mainly as a historian, uh, as a historian who, uh, wrote this very famous multi-volume history titled Al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Umam wa'l-Muluk.

Uh, in English, this would be, uh, The Well-Ordered History of Nations and Kings.