Industrial Revolution

The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner

From 1893, the single most influential essay by an American historian tells us why America is exceptional, why it has changed the whole world, and…

May 17 •

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EXTRA EDITION: The Fascist Metaphysics of Marxism

For the Marxist, human progress can only be achieved through destruction and violence. Here's why.

Feb 26 •

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ChatGPT Is Just a Fancy Calculator: Why AI Is Going to Create More Jobs, Not Less

Productivity and economic growth are a tide that lifts all boats, whether we're talking about agricultural machinery or artificial intelligence.

Jan 31 •

Low Birthrates Will Devastate the Global Economy If Not Reversed

With aging and declining or even collapsing populations, we lose specialization and economies of scale. Eventually innovation grinds to a halt.

Jan 27 •

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Low Birthrates Will Devastate the Global Economy If Not Reversed

A primer for the uninitiated: what is happening with fertility numbers, why it's such a big economic problem, and what some possible solutions.

Dec 10, 2024

No, Slavery Did Not Make America Rich

In fact, slavery actually retarded economic growth.

Sep 10, 2022 •

Niall Ferguson: China’s Demographics Spell Decline Not Domination

As I've been telling you for two decades now.

Aug 14, 2022 •

Celebrate the Industrial Revolution and What Fueled It

The Industrial Revolution largely eradicated subsistence, child labor and slavery in much of the world.

Jun 16, 2019 •

Robots and AI Will Not Create Mass Unemployment

Despite widespread adoption of new information technologies, the U.S. is not seeing rapid job obsolescence. In fact, we’re seeing just the opposite.

Sep 24, 2018 •

Economic Growth from Octavian to Obama

Poor countries can adopt ideas and technologies that took rich countries millennia to develop, and thereby leapfrog into abundance.

Sep 4, 2018 •

The Geopolitics of London: Making a Global Financial Center

If London were a city-state, it would boast the 20th-largest national economy in the world. But it isn't.

Apr 9, 2018 •

The Geopolitics of Britain

The problem Britain faces is an EU that doesn’t resemble what the founders imagined, or even what existed 10 years ago. But its alternative -- increased…

Mar 19, 2018 •

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