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The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake

发表于 2026-05-23 blueprint planet middle

How does a poor country become a rich country? There's a simple blueprint — or at least, that's what many economists used to believe. But over the years, a lot …

Bruce Meyer on the Middle Class, Poverty, and Inequality

发表于 2011-10-03 bruce meyer poverty

Bruce Meyer of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the middle class, poverty, and inequality. Many economists and pundits argu…

Richard Burkhauser on the Middle Class

发表于 2012-04-09 median burkhauser middle

Richard Burkhauser of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the middle class. Drawing on recently published papers, Burkha…

Niall Ferguson on Free Speech and Kissinger's Role in the Middle East

发表于 2023-12-12 niall kissinger ferguson

How can we create a radically different atmosphere at American universities? Easy, says historian Niall Ferguson of Stanford University's Hoover Institution--ha…

The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East (with James Barr)

发表于 2025-02-25 1916 barr middle

Until the end of WWI, the Middle East as we know it didn't exist. No Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, or Iraq. Instead, there was the Ottoman Empire, whose disso…