WW1 and Professor McCloskey

Professor McCloskey argues that the average person never benefits from imperialism. McCloskey's argument is that the reason the West grew rich was because in the classical liberal culture from the English Civil War to WWI people actually respected entrepreneurs and businessmen. They did not tell them they were disrupting the Tau by not going with the flow. Other cultures in other times and places have had all of the same advantages except for that one. That is what made the difference.Who is Professor Mccloskey? She is an American economist who taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The driving reason behind the start of WW1 is the pent-up frustration between countries and the assassination of the Austria-Hungarian archduke and his wife orchestrated by a Serbian revolt leader. The reasoning behind the assassination was that Austria Hungary had occupied Serbia and Montenegro. The assassination was carried out by a large group of high school students who used bombs but missed their target and destroyed the wrong car. During the archduke's escape, his car stalled, and Gavrilo Princip, the leader of the operation, saw his chance and shot the archduke and his wife, killing them. This gave the countries an excuse to fight and sparked WW1.