Adam Ozimek wrote an article laying out some theories of why Westeros has gone thousands of years without an industrial revolution. He has also asked me to weigh in:

UPDATE: My survey-based estimates below overestimated true “immigration.” Get the revisions here.

UPDATE: Here’s this same data, but shown for metro areas instead.

I was reminded today by a tweet from the Tax Foundation that the BEA has updated their…

Yesterday’s post discussed the difference between nominal income growth and growth in actual purchasing power by state. But many readers suggested states were poor units of analysis…