I have Chicago on the brain this week. Story today looks at when economic booms used to –> population booms, and why they don't any more https://t.co/BA4PrUoUIm pic.twitter.com/WN2Bwd3BQ9
— Emily Badger (@emilymbadger) December 6, 2017
Didn’t know Starbucks and McDonald’s were doing so well
16 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle

1000 years of European borders change timelapse map
15 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: maps
Will Robots Take Our Jobs?
13 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, survivor principle Tags: automation, creative destruction, pessimism bias
The First Punic War
13 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history Tags: Roman empire
We’re All Gonna Starve!
12 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, health economics, population economics Tags: agricultural economics, green revolution, India, pessimism bias, population bomb
DESTROY, DO NOT WOUND | The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
12 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, income redistribution, law and economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Machiavelli
Why Women Fainted So Much in the 19th Century
11 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics
The Territorial Changes of Germany After World War I
11 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history Tags: Germany, maps, World War I
Why libertarianism is a marginal idea and not a universal value | Steven Pinker
10 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, fiscal policy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Director's Law, growth of government, Steven Pinker, Wagner's Law
Robert Caro: Understanding Power
10 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA Tags: Robert Caro
The Art of Political Power, with Robert Caro and William Hague
09 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA Tags: LBJ
Some may not know what a VHS is
09 Mar 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, industrial organisation, international economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, free trade, protectionism

Hans Rosling and the magic of the washing machine (2010). Beyond brilliant
08 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, gender, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape

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