Past Imperfect
Chelsea Olivia FollettShattering rose-colored views of the past.
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Markets Are Setting Washerwomen Free
Has anything changed the world more than the internet? South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang thinks so. He would argue that one invention—an engine of liberation—has had a far more powerful effect on daily lives. He means the washing machine...
Technological Progress Freed Kids from Hard Labor
It’s summertime and across the United States, children are away from school. The custom of long breaks in the school year dates to when most Americans worked in agriculture and often needed their children’s help on the farm. Of course, most...
Lessons From Adam Smith’s Edinburgh and Paris
Has humanity made progress? With so many serious problems, it is easy to get the impression that our species is hopeless. Many people view history as one long tale of decay and degeneration since some lost, idealized golden age.
But there...
Was COVID Also an Inequality Pandemic?
Affordability fears, talk of a “K-shaped” economy, and claims of a new Gilded Age have pushed inequality to the center of today’s policy debates. Calls for a worldwide wealth tax and other unprecedented measures are not treated as radical b...
When Pregnancy Tests Killed Rabbits
A 1962 episode of the sitcom the Dick Van Dyke Show centers around a couple struggling to decide what to name their first child. Much of the comedy remains accessible to a modern audience. But one part of the episode that is confusing to a...
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Managing Editor of Human Progress, Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, author of the book Centers of Progress.
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