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socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com
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| | | | | In recent posts on this blog, I have pointed to industrial policy as an important tool in economic development. I have promised further post... | |
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ghvsted.com
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| | | | | This essay is a longer, earlier draft for a competition I participated in but did not win! Enjoy! The trio of Entrepreneurship, Capitalism and Government policy plays an important role in allowing for mobility between various socio-economic classes. By leveraging the strengths of each element and implementing complementary strategies, we can achieve a more inclusive and prosperous society. According to the World Bank (2008a), more than 1.4 billion people worldwide live in poverty. | |
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notesonliberty.com
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| | | | | On Branko Milanovic's recommendation, I read Aldo Schiavone's The End of the Past. Scholarly and elegantly written, it provides one of the best imaginative reconstructions of the ancient Roman economy. Previous posts have touched on the economies of late antiquity, the modernist primitivist debate, and diagnosed problems in many recent assessments of the ancient economy... | |
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technicshistory.com
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| | | [Part of a series: The Age of Steam] Up until the 1780s, steam engines were used almost exclusively for pumping water. To the extent that they drove industrial machinery, it was almost always indirectly, by lifting water uphill from whence it could run back down and turn a waterwheel. Industry thus remained dispersed in villages... | ||
