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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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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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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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September 2025
Why Warm Countries Are Poorer
The most underrated factor
Sep 25
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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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A Science of Cities
Cities can be treated like physics, like a deterministic science.
Sep 16
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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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China vs US: Which Geography Is Best?
They have similar strengths, but their differences usher them in different directions in history
Sep 10
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Tomas Pueyo
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Never Bet Against America
Why the US Is Overpowered
Sep 4
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August 2025
Climate Predetermined the Outcome of the US Civil War
In the previous article, we explored how climate predestined the North and South of the United States to go to war.
Aug 28
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Climate Caused the US Civil War
The story people know about the US Civil War is that the South had slavery and the North was free.
Aug 26
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