Politics Aug 15 The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world By Jonathan Bamber, The Conversation
Nation Feb 20 Will your job exist in the future, or will a robot have replaced you? In the long view of history, technological advancement unleashed by the Industrial Revolution has come to be seen as a net positive for economic development and everyone’s well-being, even those workers who initially lost their jobs. There’s reason to wonder,… By Simone Pathe
Nation Feb 13 How the West got rich and modern capitalism was born "We need to qualify the fairy tale we like to tell about capitalism and free labor," argues Harvard historian Sven Beckert, author of the new book, "Empire of Cotton." In part two of his essay on Making Sen$e, he explores… By Sven Beckert
Nation Jul 11 A genetic explanation of economic success There’s nothing to rule out the possibility that the economically successful of the modern world are actually genetically different from the people who are not successful, economic historian Gregory Clark tells Paul Solman in part four of their never-before published… By Gregory Clark
Nation Jul 10 The key to England’s economic growth: The rich outlived the poor England's economic success, beginning with the takeoff of the Industrial Revolution, can be explained by the "survival of the richest," argues economic historian Gregory Clark in the third installment of his never-before published interview with Paul Solman about his 2007… By Gregory Clark
Jul 09 How learning to pass the marshmallow test explains global economic evolution By Gregory Clark Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in England, setting them economically apart from the rest of the world? Contrary to popular economic theory, economic historian Gregory Clark says the existence of market and political institutions had nothing to do with… Continue reading