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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Markets Are as Old as Civilization
What is capitalism? According to our modern understanding, capitalism is a relatively new idea, and the intellectual foundations for a free market model can be traced to the 18th century philosopher Adam Smith. However, this narrative about the development of free markets is fundamentally flawed. Far from being a recent innovation, enterprises, banks, advanced commercial practices and free markets evolved some 4,000 years ago in the countries we today know as Iraq and Syria. A better understanding of the story of capitalism is needed; since it shows us how important markets have been for human progress as well as how universal the link between development and market policy is across different societies.
Markets Are as Old as Civilization
What is capitalism? According to our modern understanding, capitalism is a relatively new idea, and the intellectual foundations for a free market model can be traced to the 18th century philosopher Adam Smith. However, this narrative about the development of free markets is fundamentally flawed. Far from being a recent innovation, enterprises, banks, advanced commercial practices and free markets evolved some 4,000 years ago in the countries we today know as Iraq and Syria. A better understanding of the story of capitalism is needed; since it shows us how important markets have been for human progress as well as how universal the link between development and market policy is across different societies.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from The Star (Grand Coulee, WA)
Students to seek removal of state folk song "Roll on, Columbia"
Students at Lake Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School intend to petition the state Legislature to reject the state’s official folk song because its original lyrics contain references they consider racist. Written just after Guthrie had seen Bonneville Dam on his month-long commission from the Bonneville Power Administration to write songs extolling the dam building on the Columbia River in 1941, the original song refers to hanging “every Indian with smoke in his gun,” after an 1856 attack on settlers in Oregon. “The Injuns rest peaceful on Memaloose Isle,” in another verse refers to islands in the Columbia between Oregon and Washington that were the final resting place for the dead, most of which would be inundated.
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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Someone, somewhere, is making a banned chemical that destroys the ozone layer, scientists suspect
Emissions of a banned, ozone-depleting chemical are on the rise, a group of scientists reported Wednesday, suggesting someone may be secretly manufacturing the pollutant in violation of an international accord. Emissions of CFC-11 have climbed 25 percent since 2012, despite the chemical being part of a group of ozone pollutants that were phased out under the 1987 Montreal Protocol.
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