It sounds a bit like a joke, but there’s a real answer: the Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917.

In a recent post I discuss six policies that spurred the Industrial Revolution in England – opening up immigration, weakening the guilds, investing in infrastructure, privatizing agricultural land, ...

Could the Industrial Revolution's explosion in affluence have been made possible in Great Britain by genetic changes in human nature? That's the controversial theory of Gregory Clark, an economic ...

Kevin Murphy, Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory, International Studies in Social History Series (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005). Jeffrey J. Rossman, Worker ...

The introduction of new techniques and materials, along with innovations in indoor plumbing systems, resulting from the industrial revolution, paved the way for vertical living. Investigating ...

Andrew Yang likes branding. He calls his marquee policy idea—a universal basic income of $1,000 a month—a “freedom dividend.” He has a plan to give Americans money they can donate to political ...