Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
by
Ian Goldin
and
Tom Lee-Devlin
Published 21 Jun 2023
With the collapse of the Han dynasty, Chang’an went into a phase of decline, but it would return to prominence as the capital of the Tang dynasty in the eighth century, at which point 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 all the ingredients himself, growing the wheat to bake his own bread, milking a cow to make his own cheese, and raising and slaughtering his own chicken.
The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society
by
Binyamin Appelbaum
Published 4 Sep 2019
As a result, asbestos remains legal in the United States, although it is illegal in many other industrialized nations. Chapter 8. Money, Problems * There are few theories that command 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, milking a cow, killing a chicken. The sandwich took six months to make and cost $1500. McDonald’s, meanwhile, sells chicken sandwiches for less than $5.