A lot of educated people, especially if they’ve read Marx, have heard about enclosures. Most of what they know ain’t so.

Tweet from Deirdre McCloskey. Excerpts:

"Enclosures increased the number of workers in villages."

In the 1700s "Inefficient growing of wheat was replaced by efficient growing of wheat.

"The factories were in the North of England, not in the South, where the enclosures actually happened. No one moved from the South to the North. The Workers in the factories came from Ireland or the North-which were areas with no enclosures."