Reading Charles Jones and Dietrich Vollrath’s Introduction to Economic Growth. Great book. But. “Gender” and “women” do not appear in the index. Nor do they appear in the text, even in the chapter on fertility and population growth. But gender does make an appearance, on page 258: “If Microsoft had not expected to be able to charge more than the tiny marginal cost of Windows 8, he would not have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in creating the first copy.” As the Supreme Court recently ruled, corporations are men too!
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Update from Nyariga community library on games and books
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- Visite de la Bibliothèque Mobile Pénélope à l’école Sainte Thérèse de Jésus
- Newsletter Burkina Faso libraries June 2026
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- Séance de jeu de Puzzle à la bibliothèque de Karaba
- Résumé du roman Le crime parfait
- Visite du gérant de Dohoun à la bibliothèque de Koho
- Daytime Session at Sumbrungu Community Library
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