Slavery, never gone, had been given new life in Europe with slaves from Africa; first by Portuguese Traders in the 15th Century, then by the Spanish in the 16th. The…

…of the natives’ land was theft; not trade. What is happening today, in this the 21st century, on palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia, is little different. Trade at arm’s…

…concise technical discussion of the economic role of monetary expansion. While serious financial strains affected most emerging nation-states in seventeenth-century Europe, England was particularly hard hit. In the 1620s an…

Up from craft workers to those of the large industrials, by the mid-20th Century unions had grown to represent large segments of American workers (density peaked at 35% of workers…

…in the middle of the 20th century. There are plenty of reasons we’re better off nowadays, as a wide variety of technological, social, financial, and broad economic changes have happened…

…with a practical – and economic – concern: the finances and freedoms of homeownership. For many long-term residents, moving elsewhere was economically impossible. Depressed housing values meant they couldn’t recoup…

…four digits that would be necessary otherwise—78, for example, rather than 1978. This worked fine until the century changed. As the turn of the twenty-first century approached, computer engineers realized…

…environment, and their impact on economic growth and recessions. Wiki: Economics (/ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪks, ˌiːkə-/)[1] is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.[2][3] Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes what’s viewed…

…have shifted current and projected levels of federal debt to higher levels.  The United States has seen two significant adverse shocks to economic activity in the 21st century. The deep…

…freshwater economics, still claim that all we need to do is starve the beast more, cut taxes and regulations more and economic growth will take off and take care of…