Different rules of the game would have radically changed history.
Our counterfactual simulations show that without colonial transfers, Europe would have been a debtor — and South Asia or Latin America could have become global creditors.
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THREAD: a fact more people should know is that police have **wanted** body cameras for years. they had a problem though: cops couldn't get hundreds of millions of $$$ in funding for new digital tech. so how did police finally get them? (1)
on this day in which the largest MLK march in the country has been stolen from San Antonio, i hope we can revisit this speech Dr. King gave exactly one year before his assassination, connecting economic injustice, civil rights, and war, Beyond Vietnam: https://t.co/n0DkrTVGXp
Remembering Elizabeth Cotten who was born 125 years ago this week. Here she is performing “Washington Blues,” a song she wrote in January 1965 at the age of 70.