Europe <i>today</i> might not be set up for economic dynamism, but that&#x27;s not some consensus that has formed over &quot;dozens of centuries&quot;, as you claim.  Liberalism is not an American invention.  The Industrial Revolution began in Britain.  Adam Smith was a Scotsman. The individualist and capitalist Austrian School of economic thought was centered in Vienna. The Dutch invented public corporations.  And Europe has had plenty of other influential philosophies since then, like Fascism and Communism in the last hundred years.