All articles from Works in Progress
Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.
Should everyone be taking statins?
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but it’s also one of medicine’s biggest success stories.
Review: How Africa Works
How Africa Works by Joe Studwell is the sequel to one of the most influential books written on development in recent decades.
Why Europe has stagnated
Episode 13 of the Works in Progress is about regulation, labour markets, and energy
More cows, more wives
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good agricultural surplus, must be in want of a wife.
Issue 22: Why Europe doesn’t have a Tesla
Plus: Why communist reforms almost always failed, the golden age of vaccines, and the everything plant.