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Argentina’s Original Sin
How Geography and Institutions Conspired to Make Argentina Poorer
Oct 23
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Tomas Pueyo
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Water Taxis Might Change Urbanism
Through Hydrofoils
Oct 22
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Tomas Pueyo
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Argentina Could Be a Superpower
Its geography could have made it the United States of Latin America
Oct 16
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Tomas Pueyo
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The Consequences of the Silver Flood
Industrialization, empires that rose and fell, families that took over the world, and more
Oct 10
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Tomas Pueyo
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How Silver Flooded the World
And how that Replaced Feudalism and the Church with Capitalism and Nation-States
Oct 7
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Tomas Pueyo
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Final Comments on the Theory of Mountains & Warm Countries
Third and last article on why warm countries are poorer.
Oct 3
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Tomas Pueyo
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Warm Countries’ Poverty & Mountains: Responses to Your Comments
Geographic arguments against the theory: Switzerland, Austria, Colorado, India, Cambodia, Indonesia, China…Has race had any role in warm countries…
Oct 1
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Tomas Pueyo
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September 2025
Why Warm Countries Are Poorer
The most underrated factor
Sep 25
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Tomas Pueyo
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How to Design a Great City
All the principles we’ve seen in the previous two articles shape how to make a city great.
Sep 24
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Tomas Pueyo
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How Do Villages Grow into Cities?
Article 2 of A Science of Cities
Sep 19
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Tomas Pueyo
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A Science of Cities
Cities can be treated like physics, like a deterministic science.
Sep 16
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Tomas Pueyo
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Why the US South Is Poorer than the North, and Why This Is Now Changing
160 years after the end of the Civil War, the US South is more poor, sick, uneducated, mentally distressed, crime-prone, incarcerated, unemployed…
Sep 12
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Tomas Pueyo
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