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Celebrating 200 years of a deeply unintuitive idea: Comparative advantage

This past week marked the 200th publication anniversary of David Ricardo’s On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Despite...

Conjoining and disconjoining with another person

There was that strange moment again today when we said goodbye. He was with me, and then, a moment later, he was not. My boyfriend still...

Why we under-appreciate the division of labor

Economists have long known that a key source of society's wealth is the division of labor. Robinson Crusoe was marvelously...