Category Archives: Contemporary History

Brexit, a Splendid Isolation? Why Britain Should Remain in the European Union

Posted on 09/06/2016 by J.F. Gjersø

Standing on the side-lines of Britain’s ongoing EU referendum debate makes for a peculiar and a rather worrying spectacle. It is probably the single most important political decision this country will make in a generation; a decision that will echo … Continue reading →

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Back to the future for economic inequality

Posted on 31/01/2015 by J.F. Gjersø

Apart from global warming, it is arguably the rise in economic inequality witnessed over the past forty years that constitutes the most significant threat to our democratic social order. Unlike pandemics or acts of terrorism, inequality develops insidiously during which … Continue reading →

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Deciphering Livingstone’s 1871 Field Diary

Posted on 16/11/2011 by J.F. Gjersø

A year after the great African explorer Dr David Livingstone’s death in 1873, his friend Horace Waller published an edited version of his diaries. In his introduction to ‘The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to … Continue reading →

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US Income Distribution

Posted on 11/11/2011 by J.F. Gjersø

  Source: http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes/

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