While I was living in London, I wrote that one way to tell the class of a neighborhood was to count the children playing outside. Well, it seems you can also count the birds. A recent study found that the population of birds in urban areas of Britain is directly related to the wealth [...]
Human Capital and the Value of Institutions
The World Bank says “Human capital and the value of institutions (as measured by rule of law) constitute the largest share of wealth in virtually all countries“.
The Cult Of Work
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.
When I was young, my parents read me Aesop’s fable of ”The Ant and the Grasshopper,” wherein, as everyone knows, the [...]
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