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Before the Agricultural Revolution, the human population of the entire planet was smaller than that of today’s Cairo.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
In order to understand how thousands of isolated cultures coalesced over time to form the global village of today, we must take into account the role of gold and silver, but we cannot disregard the equally crucial role of steel.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Genuine free trade in services would require free movement of labour around the world, so that any service could be performed where it was required. However not even neo-liberal economists want to let labour migrate at will. Evangelists of the free market do not really believe in free trade when it comes to unrestricted movement of people, and nor do rich country governments.
How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
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