Zeb Soanes
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite having access to much better communication and cheaper transportation, we're all working just as many hours and for the same wages as workers decades ago? Well, we now know you're...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires; the rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. These are the headlines of history, but they cannot be properly grasped without understanding the role that population has played....