Smaller pie, firmer grip
Source: Dawn ·

WHEN railways and factories began transforming 19th-century Europe, the rulers of the Habsburg Empire understood their economic potential. Yet they resisted industrialisation. Friedrich von Gentz, Metternich’s adviser, explained why: “We do not desire at all that the great masses
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