What is the role of the humanities in progress?

Also: Health Insurance in Children's Lit, and Why Growth Matters

What is the role of the humanities in progress?

by Henry Oliver

The social criticism of Charles Dickens was worth as much as all the nineteenth century’s poverty data. Statistics alone cannot make you feel the truth of what it is like to be in jail, school, or an orphanage.

See also The role of literature in progress, also by Henry.

Health Insurance in Children's Lit!? A study of Black Beauty

by Tina Marsh Dalton

There’s more to this stage of Black Beauty’s life than just a vivid imagining of London from a horse’s perspective—there’s also health economics!

The Engine of Progress: Why Growth Matters

by Philip Skogsberg

Economic growth has enabled more or less everything we value about modern society, directly or indirectly.

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