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A major trade sticking point between the U.S. and China has deep roots

By Tracey Samuelson
February 14, 2019
"Theft [of technology] was the norm throughout history, all the way since the Industrial Revolution," says Greg Clark, a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis.
Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images

The history of intellectual property theft goes back centuries.

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A history of U.S. recessions

By Janet Nguyen
December 18, 2018
A trader working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 15, 2008 in New York City.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Dozens have happened since the country’s founding.

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How woven cloth changed the course of history

By David Brancaccio
December 11, 2018
Was woolen sailcloth the secret weapon of the Vikings? Above, the Draken Harald Harfagre, a reconstruction of a Viking longship.
Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images for Draken Harald Harfagre

From Viking sails to international trade, author Kassia St Clair explains how fabric influenced civilization.

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GM Canada's company town has learned from past layoffs

By Emma Jacobs
December 06, 2018
Image of the General Motors plant and headquarters in the 1940s.
Courtesy of the Archival Collection at the Oshawa Museum

As the automaker's Oshawa, Ontario, plant has shed jobs, the local economy has been forced to diversify.

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Author Caitlin Rosenthal on the role of slavery in the history of business

By Kimberly Adams and Ariel Plotnick
August 14, 2018
Stereograph Cards Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

Caitlin Rosenthal, author of "Accounting for Slavery," discusses the role slavery plays in the history of business.

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The disturbing parallels between modern accounting and the business of slavery

By Kimberly Adams
August 14, 2018
A group of women and children, presumably slaves, sit and stand around the doorway of a rough wooden cabin, Southern United States, mid 19th Century. One girl reads a book to the group of sitting children.
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In her new book, "Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management,” Caitlin Rosenthal details how plantation owners used advanced accounting and management techniques to increase the productivity and profitability of the people they enslaved.

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Where did the word "economics" come from?

By Ellen Millender
May 25, 2018
This epinetron, a form of pottery that women wore on their thighs during their preparation of wool, highlights a key feature of Athenian women's economic contribution to their households: textile production.
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The five things you didn't know about ancient economics.

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Without the first joint stock company, the U.S. wouldn't exist

By Marketplace staff
May 08, 2018
A fireboat welcomes the Godspeed, a 17th-century replica ship, as it sails past the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor in 2006.
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Someone had to pay for American colonies. Enter the British merchants adventurers.

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The history of the song "Louie Louie"

By David Brancaccio and Janet Nguyen
April 23, 2018
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A look at the origins of the song that the FBI investigated for 18 months.

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