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Final Comments on the Theory of Mountains & Warm Countries

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Tomas Pueyo
Oct 03, 2025
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This article is the third on the topic of why warm countries are poorer. The first laid out the theory, and the second and this one address the comments.

In the previous article, we discussed why many alleged examples against the theory were wrong, including examples like rich mountainous countries (eg, Switzerland, Austria), poor low-lying countries (eg…

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