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marginalrevolution.com
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| | | | | Observe that Roman history leaves no traces of great mercantile companies like the Bardi, the Peruzzi or the Medici. There are no records of commercial manuals of the sort that are abundant from Renaissance Italy; no evidence of "class-struggle" as we have from late medieval Europe; and no political economy or "economics", that is, no [...] | |
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unenumerated.blogspot.com
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| | | | | Perhaps the most underrated invention in history is the humble hourglass. Invented in Europe during the late 13th or early 14th century, th... | |
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stemintheframe.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Where do colours come from? Humans have been discovering and creating colour pigments for 100,000 years, originally from sources like ochre, bones and vegetation. Since then, philosophers and scientists have developed a kaleidoscope of unusual theories explaining why we see colours. "Pythagoras thought they were associated with musical notes; Aristotle, with times of day; and... | |
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| | | By Jonathan Rowson In her book Responsibility and Judgement, as far back as 1975, Hannah Arendt expressed a sentiment that feels valid and pertinent almost half a century later: "We may very well stand at one of those decisive turning points of history which separate whole eras from each other. For contemporaries entangled, as we... | ||
