Capitalism Is Thriving
The World Bank’s annual Doing Business report indicates that capitalism has fared better than feared in the recession. For the year ending in May 2009, 131 countries introduced 287 reforms, more than in any year since the survey began in 2004. Read More »
Ask Your Teachers for a Rebate
Students, if your professor has asked you to buy his or her book, ask for a rebate. Read More »
Planes, Trains, and PTSD
The first public passenger railroad opened in England in 1825. By the 1860′s, railway accidents had killed, maimed, and otherwise traumatized so many that doctors had to coin a term to describe the shock suffered by rail crash survivors; they called it “railway spine,” and the debate that surrounded it planted the seeds for the study of what we know today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Read More »
Quotes Uncovered: Who Found Proof in the Pudding?
A while back, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent research by me. Hundreds of people have responded via comments or e-mails. I am responding as best I can, a few per week. Read More »
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