easy · LSAT Reading Comprehension
While traditional historians argue that the Industrial Revolution was driven primarily by technological innovation, recent scholarship suggests that changes in trade policy were equally significant. By lowering tariffs on raw materials, the government created an environment in which new inventions could be profitably scaled.
The author's primary purpose in the passage is to
- complicate a long-standing historical account by bringing an additional causal factor into view.
- recommend that present-day governments revive the low-tariff policies of that era.
- catalogue the technological breakthroughs that gave rise to the Industrial Revolution.
- establish that technological innovation mattered far less than historians have long believed.
- settle a dispute among historians by showing that one of the competing explanations is simply mistaken.
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