Tue Aug 1, 2006 @ 7:32 am

R.I.P. Guardians of Order

From ICv2:

Author George R.R. Martin has disclosed that the Canadian role-playing game publisher Guardians of Order is now out of business. Writing on his Website, Martin, whose work provided the basis for the elaborate RPG volume, A Game of Thrones …

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Thu Mar 30, 2006 @ 9:06 am

"The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart"

Every year, thousands of executives venture to Bentonville, Arkansas, hoping to get their products onto the shelves of the world's biggest retailer. But Jim Wier wanted Wal-Mart to stop selling his Snapper mowers.

What struck Jim Wier first, as he …

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Mon Jun 27, 2005 @ 9:58 am

The price of flour...

DeLong's analysis starts with the fact that in 1500 the average family lived not far above subsistence. They could do little more than feed themselves with their labor--DeLong estimates that three-fourths of what the medieval economy produced was …

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