Ghulf Genes

Brooding over prize holders and fame this morning as I brewed my early cup, it occurred to me that the actual experience even of very minor ...

Several posts on Ghulf Genes deal with economics, always in a more or less cultural context; I tend to deal with the subject at a more tech...

I’m accustomed to using the lens of statistics to enhance my understanding of cultural phenomena. Here is such a glimpse. Consider that in 1...

If those who keep our national accounts are doing a good job, specifically the Bureau of Economic Analysis, part of the Department of Commer...

The writing of blog entries, with the implied possibility that people all over the world might just chance to see it, has a somewhat bracing...

Several years ago both Monique and I participated in the production a four-volume work entitled Social Trends & Indicators USA , a proje...

Fernand Braudel (see last post) wrote Civilization and Capitalism , 15th-18th Century. It's a three-volume work ( The Structures of Ever...

Legend has it that Henry Ford succeeded because he made cars cheap enough so that his workers could afford them. He lifted his product from ...

Adam Smith’s Hidden Hand, Darwin’s Natural Selection, and today’s Public Opinion are instances of forces ancient people called gods or demig...