📜 Episode Summary:
Fourth episode. This episode uncovers how one crop scaled entire countries, and led to massive urbanization and population growth; also attempting to find some modern parallels. The Potato King, Potato Vodka & the Irish Famine.
📚Recommended Reading:
The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence From A Historical Experiment (Nathan Nunn & Nancy Qian, 2011)
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