Part of the story is that the citizens resisted the use of writing because they feared that it would be used to control resources, such as valuable land, by allowing the state to claim ownership. They also feared that it would lead to more systematic taxation.

在整个过程中，刘邦等汉帝国统治者要推动的一个事业就是“汉承秦制”。他们当然不希望周制再回来，不欢迎封建制被重建。而当时讲法家已经不合时宜了，因为法家实在太极端赤裸裸了，被天下人所厌弃，没有人喜欢听那些“坑民”“害民”“与民为敌”的东西，面对这样的统治者，怎么能伸着脖子任其涂炭。如果法家不行，在儒道两家中，应该说道家也就是当时所谓的黄老学说更适应“汉承秦制”的需要，这才是黄老之治在汉初能够盛行的重要原因

Along with this new locus for the determination of economic institutions and the new responsiveness after 1688, parliamentarians started making a series of key changes in economic institutions and government policy that would ultimately pave the way for the Industrial Revolution. Property rights eroded under the Stuarts were strengthened. Parliament began a process of reform in economic institutions to promote manufacturing, rather than taxing and impeding it.

It was the Glorious Revolution that strengthened and rationalized property rights, improved financial markets, undermined state-sanctioned monopolies in foreign trade, and removed the barriers to the expansion of industry. It was the Glorious Revolution that made the political system open and responsive to the economic needs and aspirations of society.

我一向认为，中华文明数千年，最深刻的变化就是走进帝制的“周秦之变”和走出帝制的“三千年未有之变”