Sep 7, 2026 22 min The Map Used to Run the Other Way A chart of temperature against national income looks like one of the tidiest things in economics, and it is real. It is also, I think, impossible to read the way it invites you to. DataEconomicsHistory
Jul 30, 2026 22 min A Third of the World's Labour Laws Still Assume You Work Saturday Forty hours is five eight-hour days. Forty-eight is six, and in 2012 a third of the countries with a working-hours law still legislated one. The world's labour codes agreed most closely in 1949 and have drifted apart ever since, and the number that standardised turns out not to be the number that sets the outer limit. DataEconomicsHistory