How would you compare the early modern economy to economic conditions in medieval Europe?

The medieval English saw their economy as comprising three groups – the clergy , who prayed; the knights, who fought; and the peasants, who worked the landtowns involved in international trade. Over the next five centuries the economy would at first grow and then suffer ... Despite economic dislocation in urban and extraction economies.

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d) post-world war i