
The left were always rather authoritarian and looked down on the poor as their wards
16 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: eugenics, regressive left

Leech Collector (Worst Jobs in History)
16 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: compensating differences
#OTD 1957: the knocker-up job still existed in Britain
15 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: creative destruction
Andrew Neil remembers dictator Fidel Castro (01Dec16)
15 Jun 2018 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, history of economic thought, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: Castro, Cuba
Japan | 100 Years of Beauty
14 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: economics of beauty
What Was the Industrial Revolution?
13 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, human capital, macroeconomics, Robert E. Lucas Tags: industrial revolution
#OTD 1987 Ronald Reagan: ‘Tear down this wall!’
13 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, Marxist economics Tags: Berlin wall, fall of communism
Why Cosmonauts Have Never Splashed Down
12 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: space
Speaking of The Great Fact
10 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Fact
History Buffs: Braveheart
10 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, movies Tags: Scotland
From the good old days before a polio vaccine
10 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape, vaccines

Labour market floods are the best evidence that jobs are always available
09 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: economics of immigration
How Americans Found a Clever Loophole in the Prohibition Act
09 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, health economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: economics of prohibition

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