Blog Post | Population Demographics
Grim Old Days: Pat Thane’s History of Old Age
"He who has made himself dependent on his children for bread and suffers from want, he shall be knocked dead by this club."
Chelsea Follett
Blog Post | Income & Inequality
Smithian Insights into Shrinking Global Inequality
There is a widespread but mistaken belief that the tremendous progress across a range of metrics has coincided with increasing inequality.
The Human Progress Podcast | Ep. 53
Jennifer Huddleston: Digital Technology and the Regulatory State
Jennifer Huddleston, a senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute, joins Chelsea Follett to discuss the benefits of digital technologies as well as how we should think about the risks and problems they pose.
Blog Post | Water & Sanitation
Grim Old Days: James Salzman’s History of Drinking Water
There is a common belief that prior to industrialization, water was pristine. This book quickly disabuses the reader of that notion.
Grim Old Days: Tom Standage’s Edible History of Humanity
So many of history's twists and turns have been guided by what people ate.
Grim Old Days: Fernand Braudel’s Structures of Everyday Life
“The poor in the towns and countryside of the West lived in a state of almost complete deprivation."
The Human Progress Podcast | Ep. 52
Rainer Zitelmann: How Nations Escape Poverty
World-renowned historian and sociologist Rainer Zitelmann joins Chelsea Follett to discuss the ideas, attitudes, and policies that allowed Poland and Vietnam to escape poverty.
Grim Old Days: Kirstin Olsen’s Daily Life in 18th-Century England
Life just prior to industrialization was more callous, uncomfortable, and dangerous than most people today care to fathom.