This is one thing that really caught my eye in the reading. The printing press, creation of colleges and realizations that human beings were capable of seeking more knowledge than what they were born/surrounded with, the emergence of important urban trading centers, and how religion played a huge role in economic systems, and how people understood the importance to push trade with more people back in the day. I feel like these things are obviously things that still play a role in economics, but I never thought of how or why they did. Things that we take for granted. The printing press. College(not so much but still), trading centers(the mall, grocery stores, outlets, and the right to get married, divorced, adopt, or get remarried if i please. All of things rights that I have and all of the resources that surround me I never really strung it back to economics. But then again who would?
The thing that really prompted me to post about these four things was how marriage played a role in economic systems before the 1820’s. How most of those rules were to limit inheritance entitlements to close family and to channel it through the church. Out of all I am happy that we not longer have church and state together because I can’t imagine how far back our society would be if we were run but a religious system. How wonderful is it that I live in a world where I can marry whoever I please, divorce whoever I please, adopt children or choose to remarry if a future husband dies? I tell ya, we’d still be in stone age if we were still joined at the hip with religion. I love my God, but I love my government as well…sometimes.