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Categories Society, Politics and History

Family Wealth, Traced Centuries Back

I recently stumbled across two studies that trace family fortunes over centuries by tracing their surnames. One posits that the same families that were rich…

16. August 202016. August 2020
Categories Health, Society, Politics and History

Cognitive inequality

It has by now become a well-known trope that automation of low-skilled jobs hits certain parts of the population much harder than others. And that…

28. January 202029. January 2020
Categories Funfact Friday, Open Questions

Why is Everything so Expensive?

Everything was better in the good old days. You can ask your grandpa. But anecdotes aside, it really seems like things have been possible in…

3. January 20205. January 2020
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    17. October 2020
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