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Archive for July 9th, 2008
Global Trade Governance Not So Global
This week’s lead story in The Economist addresses what folks have suspected for a while — a lot of the institutions that are supposed to promote all sorts of good things like trade, good economic policy, human rights, and stability are getting more than a little outdated. CLUBS are all too often full of people [...]
Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard
Those Unhealthy Swedes… wait, what? Neil Kent Sweden is today one of the healthiest countries in which to live and has some the world’s highest rates of human longevity. However, this was not always so. In the early modern period, it was frequently afflicted by the bubonic plague, with extraordinarily high mortality rates. Smallpox, until [...]
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