The unacknowledged role of cooperatives in the US textiles industry, based on evidence from Rivoli’s book “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy”.
Category: Political Economy
Are the arguments in the blog just socialism?
The factual and logical flaws in individualism, and the effect this has on how people see the world and understand economics.
The evidence that individualism has become the philosophy at the heart of Western civilisation.
How individualism becomes the source of the myths about how Britain and the USA grew rich.
The theory of comparative advantage supposedly proves mathematically that free trade always gives everyone the best outcome. Here’s a demolition of that theory in 1,400 words.
A summary of List’s sophisticated theory of the role that protectionism can play on the path to global free trade.
How the USA grew rich (by learning from the British).
The real reasons Britain grew rich (hint: it wasn’t free trade and small government)