Piracy’s Impact on the Creative Class
February 18, 2016
Scott Timberg— When you ask people why they steal music, or why they don’t care about the collapse of the record industry, the more informed ones talk about the decadence of… READ MORE
Category: Business
The World’s First Corporations
August 11, 2015
It is commonly believed that the first corporations were English and Dutch trading corporations from the 1600s. But Germain Sicard, in an overlooked 1952 thesis, argued that the first corporations… READ MORE
Do Workers Deserve Wages Sufficient to Live On?
August 3, 2015
Joseph William Singer— Should we raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour? Those who say yes seek wages sufficient to sustain workers; those who say no argue that this… READ MORE
Léon Blum and the Forty-Hour Workweek
July 30, 2015
Pierre Birnbaum— On June 21st, 1936, following the June 7th signing of the Matignon Agreements, the Popular Front government voted in the forty-hour workweek. They were led by Léon Blum,… READ MORE
Technology and Wages: A Conversation with James Bessen
May 13, 2015
James Bessen is an economist and lecturer at Boston University Law School. He is the author of Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth. In a recent conversation,… READ MORE
This Is Your Milk on Coke
March 12, 2015
Coca-Cola was bottled and sold for the first time on March 12, 1894. Since then, the soft drink company has undergone a striking number of changes and expansions: new flavors,… READ MORE
Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike
February 18, 2015
Julius Getman— February 11 is a date with special significance for union leaders, members, and supporters. On that date in 1937, the General Motors Flint facility ended its sit-down strike with… READ MORE
When Harry Met Annie: Love and Financial Fraud in the Nineteenth Century (Part 3)
December 10, 2014
Harry Marks was one of the foremost financial journalists of the late nineteenth century. He was also a man of few scruples, and his salacious love affair with Annie Koppel would… READ MORE
When Harry Met Annie: Love and Financial Fraud in the Nineteenth Century (Part 2)
December 9, 2014
Harry Marks was one of the foremost financial journalists of the late nineteenth century. He was also a man of few scruples, and his salacious love affair with Annie Koppel would… READ MORE
When Harry Met Annie: Love and Financial Fraud in the Nineteenth Century (Part 1)
December 8, 2014
Harry Marks was one of the foremost financial journalists of the late nineteenth century. He was also a man of few scruples, and his salacious love affair with Annie Koppel would… READ MORE
Between Memory and History