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How lighthouses became the first example of a public good — and what economists got wrong

How a single Dutch auction decision in 1602 shaped every stock market on Earth

Why certain languages are vanishing in two generations while others nearly dead are reviving

How soil types predicted the outcome of the American Civil War

The geography of debt: why certain nations borrow in currencies they...

How Switzerland stays neutral — the actual legal and military architecture...

What happens to a country’s debt when it ceases to exist

Why rivers make poor borders — and why we keep using...

Why bridges get more political the longer they are

Why some democracies fail in ten years while others last centuries

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

The science of strategic starvation: how food has been weaponized throughout...

Why certain religions produce higher economic growth