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A demonstration at Shippingport
The United States have nuclear electricity due to the efforts of one man
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Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.
Mar 3
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February 2026
Should everyone be taking statins?
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but it’s also one of medicine’s biggest success stories.
Feb 27
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Saloni Dattani
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Jacob Trefethen
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Review: How Africa Works
How Africa Works by Joe Studwell is the sequel to one of the most influential books written on development in recent decades.
Feb 26
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Saarthak Gupta
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Why Europe has stagnated
Episode 13 of the Works in Progress is about regulation, labour markets, and energy
Feb 25
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Sam Bowman
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Pieter Garicano
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Aria Schrecker
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More cows, more wives
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good agricultural surplus, must be in want of a wife.
Feb 24
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Issue 22: Why Europe doesn’t have a Tesla
Plus: Why communist reforms almost always failed, the golden age of vaccines, and the everything plant.
Feb 19
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Why Europe doesn’t have a Tesla
Restrictive labor laws are making Europe's superstars fall far behind.
Feb 18
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Inflation in Rome, Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia with Mark Koyama
Episode 12 of of the Works in Progress podcast is about how inflation undermines state capacity.
Feb 11
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Ben Southwood
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Pieter Garicano
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Mark Koyama
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Learning about longevity from long-lived animals
The secrets to extending human lifespans might lie in the animals that can already live for centuries.
Feb 10
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Aria Schrecker
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How writing about nineteenth-century cities changed my mind
More pro-planning, less fussed about privatisation, more pro-monopolies
Feb 6
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Many Victorian cities grew by tenfold in a century
Could ours do the same?
Feb 3
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