Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin · 21 Jun 2023 · 248pp · 73,689 words
it would become the largest city in the world, with a population similar to Rome’s at its zenith.31 Specialization In 2015, YouTube star Andy George set out to make a sandwich entirely from scratch. Not merely content with purchasing supplies from his local supermarket and assembling his lunch, he made
The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum · 4 Sep 2019 · 614pp · 174,226 words
such broad agreement among economists as the assertion that free trade benefits all participating nations. One of my favorite illustrations is a YouTube video featuring Andy George, a man who decided to make his own sandwich. George documented the process of growing his own lettuce and wheat, evaporating ocean water for salt