Practice question · Estimate
Estimate how many years separate the publication of Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and the census that first recorded an urban majority in England and Wales.
Estimate on a scale from 25 years (25) to 125 years (125).
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- Subtract the earlier year from the later one.
- The book is 1776 and the census is 1851.
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75 (answers within ±8 count)
Why
About 75 years. Three-quarters of a century is roughly one long lifetime, and that is the point worth feeling: a person born the year Smith described the pin factory could have lived to read that most of their compatriots no longer lived in villages. Sociology was invented by people who had watched this happen.
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