not really. multidecade social and historical theses aren’t going to have quantitative p < 0.05 kinds of evidence. we had mid century (last century) the most perceptive people of the era (Keynes, Polanyi) observe events and advance the thesis. then we reran the experiment, with similar results. 1/

i think that’s about as close to a slam dunk as you get in historical narrative arcs. /fin