When Everybody Was Poor Oct 27, 2017
I'm going to admit something: I've gotten into the habit of starting a book, but never finish many of them. For some completely insane reason, I've decided to start another book: Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions Enriched the World, and I've decided to live blog it. At one point pretty much all of humanity was incredibly poor. We lived hand to mouth, mostly eating a little bread or rice as our primary source of nutrition, and at most had two sets of clothes. Many children failed to reach the age of 5, and for those that...
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