Thinking Out Aloud

Econblogger Bryan Caplan is rightly sceptical of "it will end in civil war(s)" claims about the European Union 's (EU) curre...

I came across this passage in a collection entitled States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (pdf): A re...

Human history has largely been driven by the creation and use of surplus production -- that is, production beyond subsistence. ( Subsistenc...

Recurring periods of unification were a notable feature of the history of China; notably the Qin - Han (221BC-220), Sui - Tang (589-907),...

Vladimir Lenin gave his name to Leninism , a way of operationalising revolutionary socialism. In fact, essentially the only way that has p...