I'm not old enough to see how economics teaching has changed. But when I read about how Victorian Britain annihilated Chinese and Central Asian local economies through dumping industrial-produced goods, I was stunned by how nothing I learned in micro or macro accounted for that.
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...A musical created by a man who partied with Lennon and consistently outdid him w/r/t sex, drugs, etc. Historical memory generally dies with the generation that experienced it, books, films, etc, be damned.
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Didn’t that kind of thinking contribute to the Irish potato famine? I think there were people in the British government who were opposed to feeding famine victims on principle.
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Some of us still oppose child labor laws (and minimum wage wag laws). If only the inner city boys my church worked with could have been learning job skills while there was still a chance to save them from gang/street culture.
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Aren't you like Scrooge-in favor of reducing the 'surplus population'
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