Stalin: Inside the Terror (including for his extended family)
17 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, television Tags: Stalin
A brief history of plural word…s – John McWhorter
15 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of languages
How did the Apollo flight computers get men to the moon and back ?
15 Jul 2018 1 Comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: moon landing
Deirdre McCloskey on what Richard Thaler did
14 Jul 2018 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, behavioural economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: Deirdre McCloskey

Ten Minute English and British History #18 – The Late Tudors: Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada
13 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: British history
Thomas Sowell – Congressional Testimony on Robert Bork
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: constitutional law, racial discrimination, Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell and a Conflict of Visions
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, history of economic thought Tags: Thomas Sowell
The history of aviation safety: Putting passengers’ safety first
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, transport economics Tags: Air safety
Malaria used to be widespread
11 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Escape

Flying Cruise Ships: What Happened To Giant Airships?
10 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, survivor principle, transport economics Tags: creative destruction
My favorite quote on British colonialism
09 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: British empire, economics of colonialism

Great chart from Pinker’s book
08 Jul 2018 1 Comment
in economic history, gender Tags: engines of liberation, The Great Enrichment




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