SleuthSayers: The $3500 Shirt - A History Lesson in Economics
Fascinating stuff, Eve. By the way, have you looked at the bottom of page 188 of the July August issue of AHMM? It is worth your while.
Hasnain says:
"And speaking of paper, that was another thing that had to be invented for our society to exist: cheap paper."
Posted on 2015-01-25T20:37:57+0000
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