125. Industrial Revolution, Is the Company an Artificial Intelligence?

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Alternative Title: Families, Firms and Factories.  Half the episode is a deep dive into the trio of Samuel Bentham, Marc Brunel, and Henry Maudsley and how they worked together to magnify British advantages over Napoleon and the French in the first fully automated steam powered factory.  
We look at the changes brought about by the creation of factories.  From its effects on families, the separation of distinct spheres of consumption vs production (home vs workplace), to the externalities and the regulations that resulted.   We look at the standard intuitive explanations for why factories arose at all and find them 90% persuasive.  The AI theory is the last 10%.