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>>82030
Graph was made by this fag, though his argument may or may not be cogent:
https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2015/12/17/how-austerity-destroyed-the-british-empire/comment-page-1/
>But in any case, what we see in the historical record is that Britain’s relative share of global wealth peaks a couple decades after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in the 1840’s, holding even until the 1860’s, and the dropping at an increasingly rapid pace until World War I, when Britain finally stopped the austerity. It slides further during the 1920’s when Britain tried to reimpose austerity between the wars, before stabilizing again once Britain abandons the gold standard in the 1930’s. John Mearsheimer’s figures from The Tragedy of Great Power Politics tell the story of Britain’s decline.
This is the table from the book.
https://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/1032230/Mearsheimer_-_The_Tragedy_of_Great_Power_Politics.html
Table 3.3 where he explains his calculation method is the second image, it's based on steel production and energy consumption.
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>own 1/4 of the Earth's surface
>fail to develop it