January 31, 2018Alexander the Great, comparison of living standards, Roman Empire, Viking Era Abundance of food today compared with routine scarcity of food earlier than 150 years ago. For most of history, one of the main challenges was getting enough food to eat. Keeping your family alive through the winter […]
December 8, 2017comparison of living standards Increase of income per person over last 200 years (Article cross-posted from Outrun Change because it shows the radical change in per capita income over the last 200 years, which in […]
June 1, 2017June 15, 2017Alexander the Great, comparison of living standards How much has our economic wellbeing improved from that our of distant ancestors? A view of economic progress. Ponder the productivity improvement and resulting increase in wealth to go from this: To this: The overall […]
June 1, 2017June 15, 2017comparison of living standards, Other eras Are you richer today than John D. Rockefeller was in 1916? The answer is, um, yes. I suggest you are in fact richer today than John Rockefeller was 100 years ago. If it were possible for Prof. Don […]