Book edible economics6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Switzerland is the site of many of these labs. Moreover, he adds, many key exports such as cochineal and indigo became valueless once European labs figured out how to make even less expensive synthetic versions. ![]() ![]() The author also clearly enumerates how developing nations have been repeatedly victimized by colonialism and have an indolent if rapacious ruling class (“unproductive landlords, undynamic capitalist class, vision-less and corrupt political leaders”). Without tobacco and cotton revenues, he writes, America would have never become an industrial marvel. Okra, for example, came from Africa on the Middle Passage, affording the author an opportunity to reflect on the contributions of enslaved Africans not just to the antebellum economy, but also to present-day wealth. Using foodstuffs as metaphors as much as things in and of themselves, Chang examines them in the light of economic history. ![]() “With increase in international trade, international migration and international travel,” writes Chang, “people everywhere have become more curious about and open to foreign foods.” So it is that Britain became a multiflavored nation even at a time when economics became monocultural. Yet even in the land of toad in the hole and bubble and squeak, global trends began to break through. Economist Chang takes an offbeat approach to the dismal-but delicious-science.īorn in Korea, the author studied in England at a time when the food was inarguably awful. ![]()
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