…Rather, she’s making a bet that the makeup of 21st century America allows her to do something no Democratic nominee, not even Barack Obama, has done before: win the White…

…from Jones: And finally, from “Post-1500 Population Flows and the Economic Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality,” published in Harvard’s Quarterly Journal of Economics: The positive effect of ancestry-adjusted early…

…which I was planning to discuss. OK now we are reading the post so that we can discuss it. The world is highly connected. The 21st century is very strange….

…photos with often biting captions — carrying hashtags like #elysee2017 that were linked to the campaign. That included portraying him as a 21st-century equivalent of Marie Antoinette, the out-of-touch last…

…Harvard examine the predominance of the dollar in a NBER working paper, “Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century: Which Anchor Will Hold?” They show that the dollar is far ahead…

…break even. But there’s more. Part of that economic growth simply reflects expansion of the population. Real economic growth per capita in the U.S. has been even more anemic in…

…be done. Most recently, the 21st Century Cure Act was passed with one of its intents being to move new drugs to market faster through testing in the public sector….

…the seriousness of their undertaking. Kenneth Burke may have predicted Jeff Bezos’s moon colony dream 48 years ago but Thorstein Veblen predicted the 21st century GOP platform 120 years ago….

…Let’s go down her list. “Whitewater” including omission of the critical fact that the Whitewater Development Corporation is older than the Morgan Guarantee S&L (something I learned in the 21st…

…into Ann Arbor from Livingston and then Detroit which could carry people to work . . . would bring. The train would go both ways. Michigan coming into the 21st…