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stanfordpolitics.org
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| | | | | Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke about digital democracy at Stanford on Friday... | |
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pseudoerasmus.com
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| | | | | Many "global historians" arguethat the British cotton industry was the product of (unintentional) infant industry protection from Indian competition inthe 18th century.The variousCalico Actscreated an import-substitution industry by banning Indian cloths and reserving the home market for British producers. This supposedly gave them the freedom to invent and adopt the machines that led to the... | |
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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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briangitt.com
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| | | False beliefs about renewable energy are harming the environment. I say this as someone who championed renewable energy for over two decades-first as executive director of a green building non-profit, then as CEO of a consulting firm specializing in clean energy, and most recently as founder of a cleantech startup. I thought my efforts were [...] | ||