The Great Enrichment
04 Nov 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: The Great Enrichment, creative destruction
The Great Enrichment
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in economic history, entrepreneurship Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment
Was 1800 (approximately) A Pivotal Year In Human History? Robert Fogel, Francis Fukuyama, And Deirdre McCloskey All Seem To Think So
24 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles, history of economic thought Tags: The Great Enrichment
Robert Fogel is a Nobel Prize Winning Economist. Here is something he said recently:”Technology rescued humankind from centuries of physical maladies and malnutrition, Mr. Fogel argues. Before the 19th century (1800), most people were caught in an endless cycle of subsistence farming.”See Technology Advances; Humans Supersize.Francis Fukuyama, author of the famous book The End of…
Was 1800 (approximately) A Pivotal Year In Human History? Robert Fogel, Francis Fukuyama, And Deirdre McCloskey All Seem To Think So
The Great Enrichment
09 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, macroeconomics Tags: The Great Enrichment
America’s Affordability Problem Is Government
02 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment, top 1%
I have a series of columns (2021, 2024, 2025, and 2026). documenting that Americans are getting richer. And here’s a chart that adds additional evidence. More and more households over time are high income (over $100k) and fewer and fewer are low income (under $35k). And, yes, these numbers are adjusted for inflation. The chart was […]
America’s Affordability Problem Is Government
Capitalism or Free Enterprise?
29 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics Tags: The Great Enrichment
I’ve addressed this issue in 2016 and 2021, so let’s continue this once-every-five-years tradition and ask whether supporters of economic liberty should stop advocating for “capitalism.” Instead, they should say they believe in “free enterprise” or the “free market.” I’ve used all of these terms, but polling data suggests that I’m making a mistake when […]
Capitalism or Free Enterprise?
Tea drinking and mortality in pre-industrial England
24 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape
The importance of clean water for public health is thoroughly uncontroversial in modern times. In the temporary absence of a safe water source, one recommendation is to boil water for drinking, which will kill off most bacteria and other pathogens. 668 more words
Tea drinking and mortality in pre-industrial England
The Great Enrichment
23 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: The Great Enrichment
How to Make Life Better for the Middle Class (and Everyone Else)
14 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic growth, economic history, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: The Great Enrichment
I have a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) documenting that Americans are getting richer over time, yet many people feel pessimism and dissatisfaction. This Kite & Key video helps to explain this seeming contradiction. If you don’t want to watch a 10-minute video, here are two charts that summarize the message. This first […]
How to Make Life Better for the Middle Class (and Everyone Else)
Did the Sewing Machine Reduce the Workload for Women?
10 Sep 2026 1 Comment
in discrimination, economic growth, economic history, economics of education, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment
Is new technology that replaces a worker a good thing? We have a tendency, it seems to me, to believe that most previous inventions turned out to have overall net social benefits, but to be worried that all future inventions will instead have overall net social costs. Philipp Ager and Davide Coluccia tackle the question of…
Did the Sewing Machine Reduce the Workload for Women?
The Great Enrichment
28 Aug 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship Tags: The Great Enrichment
The Great Enrichment continues
17 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation Tags: creative destruction, The Great Enrichment
A Friendly Appeal to the Unconvinced
14 May 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, liberalism Tags: The Great Enrichment
An excerpt from the conclusion of *Unbeatable*
A Friendly Appeal to the Unconvinced
The Great Enrichment
12 May 2026 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: The Great Enrichment
Resourceful Earth Day: Fred Smith on Julian Simon
23 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism Tags: pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
“The problems of famine, overpopulation, poverty, and disease are resolvable. In fact, they have been resolved in the United States and other places where human ingenuity is free to solve them.” The post Resourceful Earth Day: Fred Smith on Julian Simon appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Resourceful Earth Day: Fred Smith on Julian Simon
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