Appreciate your post Erik.

One of my favorite books on this topic is American's Assembly Line (https://amzn.to/36snD0F) by David Nye. He does a really good job at talking through the prehistory of the assembly line. I never thought the assembly line could be such a fascinating topic to go deep on.

I'm also a big fan of Joel Mokyr's (A Culture Of Growth) and Edmund Phelp's Mass Flourishing and others, which provides alternative explanations for why there was a sudden growth in GDP. I'm planning to write future articles on this topic that go deeper into this. Are there other books / people you recommend I explore?

As a writer I always struggle with nuance and what to include in each article and not to include. In this article, I was already over 5,000 words and going into every pre-history and alternative explanation would've likely made it unreadable for most people.