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Psychiatric Drugs and Children
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Truth in Science, Truth in Corporate Research
Dr. Tyrone Hayes’ Presentation at the 31st Annual National Pesticide Forum 2013 Forum: Protecting Life: From Research to Regulation (Tyrone Hayes) Silencing the Scientist: Tyrone Hayes on Being Targeted By Herbicide Firm Syngenta Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D. Keynote talk: Learning…
PDF – The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
entire book by David Landes on PDF: landes-the-wealth-and-the-poverty-of-nations
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
By DAVID S. LANDES W.W. Norton & Company Link to Original Article Chapter 1: Nature’s Inequalities Geography has fallen on hard times. As a student in elementary school, I had to read and trace maps, even draw them from memory.…
Bribery in Jewish Law
שמות פרק כג ח) ושחד לא תקח כי השחד יעור פקחים ויסלף דברי צדיקים And no bribery shall you take, for bribery blindeth those that see clearly and distorts the words of just men. (Exodus 23:8) דברים פרק טז ט)…
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Financial Crises, Debt, Economic Success (1998)
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David S. Landes, 89, dies
Historian explored how cultural mores and historical circumstance intersected in economics August 30, 2013 By Peter Reuell, Harvard Staff Writer Email Twitter Facebook David S. Landes, a renowned historian whose work focused on the complex dynamics of cultural values, technological…
The Losers
Latin America Latin America has had almost two hundred years of political independence to graduate to economic independence. It remains, however, a mixed area, wanting in local initiative, technologically patchy, entrepreneurially needy. This pattern of arrested development reflects the tenacious…
What Can We Learn?
If we can learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference. (Here Max Weber was right on.) Witness the enterprise of expatriate minorities – the Chinese in East and Southeast Asia, Indians…
WHY EUROPE? WHY THEN?
Why Industrial Revolution there and then? The question is really twofold. First, why and how did any country break through the crust of habit and conventional knowledge to this new mode of production? After all, history shows other examples of…