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The Undercover Economist

It explains in non-technical terms how Starbucks and other coffee providers price their products, why it is hard to buy a decent used car, why the health insurance system in the United States is failing, and why poor countries remain poor while the People's Republic of China has continuously grown rich in the last couple of decades.


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Dorothy Langley

She submitted the manuscript of Swamp Angel, a novel set among the poor country people living around Bloomfield, Missouri that she had written during the 1920s, to Simon and Schuster.

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

In 1960 they came to the world of cinema directing, with Joris Ivens the documentary L'Italia non è un paese povero (Italy is not a poor country), and they went on to direct two films with Valentino Orsini Un uomo da bruciare (1962) and I fuorilegge del matrimonio (1963).

Scottish trade in the early modern era

Jenny Wormald has commented that "to talk of Scotland as a poor country is a truism".