From her intro: By the standards of today, my grandparents were living in wrenching poverty. Some of this, of course, involves technologies that didn’t exist—as a young couple in the 1930s my grandparents had less access to health care than the most neglected homeless person in modern America, simply because most of the treatments we now have had not yet been invented. That is not the whole...
Economic world history in one chart
2014 was a good year: better than you remember
Much better, actually; he lays out why, with some nice graphs: