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The hollow state: why Lebanon became a country that cannot govern itself — and what it predicts

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

How colonialism created the conditions for today’s global obesity epidemic

The countries that chose autocracy democratically

How empires die: the economic signals that come before the fall

How megadroughts ended civilizations — and the ones currently underway