Rachel Laudan

Note. If you’ve been to this page before, I’ve now (pm 5 december) edited the figures. Many thanks Larry.   I’ve just been reading E.A. Wrigley‘s Energy and the English Industrial Revolution which I highly recommend if you are interested in the transformation wrought by fossil fuels. In passing, he gives these figures for the [...]

Megan McArdle at the Atlantic, following Arnold King, asks this. Why hasn’t rising inequality resulted in in the much-predicted oligarchy?  Or to put it as he does: with so many unemployed, and income increasing faster among the affluent, why aren’t people hiring more servants?   Or to put it more personally, would you hire a [...]

I don´t usually link to blogs until they have a bit of a track record but these sister blogs on Mexican ethnobotany could be really interesting.  All come from Heike Vibrans who works at the main university for agriculture in Mexico. Here’s one on Mexican (roughly) weeds, the volunteer plants that go along with cultivated [...]