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The ceasefire economy: what actually causes wars to end — and why so many peace agreements collapse

What happens when a country defaults — the economics and politics of sovereign insolvency

Why tropical diseases don’t get vaccines: the market failure that has no market solution

Why certain cities became financial capitals — and others, equally positioned,...

The nuclear plants that nobody talks about — and why they...

Why the world’s best agricultural land is increasingly owned by foreign...

Did Protestantism make Europe rich? Religion, schools and economic growth

Why landlocked countries are systematically poorer — and the exceptions that...

How a handful of seed banks are the last line against...

Why so many of the world’s fastest-growing cities are in one...

The currency crises that remade continents: a pattern everyone ignores

The economic history of spices: how flavor changed the world’s power...

Hawala – the financial system that runs largely outside Western banks