The book of Genesis answers the question, “Where did all this come from?” Genesis is the story of how Israel began as a nation, but the author tells this story as a series of beginnings—starting with the creation of the universe (Gn 1:1) and narrowing down to one family:Israel’s...
Habakkuk and has been the subject of a considerable literature in the 1960s and 1970s about the impact of high wages on the rate of technological change (Habakkuk, 1962; Ruttan, 2001). A recent attempt by Allen (2008) to revive this approach looks at the cost of labor relative to that...