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Thank you! Author here - I've been busy finishing my dissertation this past year but I do intend to start updating it again in 2015.
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It is indeed an interesting example of information asymmetry. An economic historian at LSE who I know actually traces the origins of modern advertising to the rise of "brand-name" medicines.…
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That's wonderful, thank you. I love that we can know the kid's name (and that he apparently dreamed of being a knight, given his self-portrait!).
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"Technology and drugs have always existed in an easy symbiosis: the first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana. In 1971 or 1972, students at Stanford University’s…
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I found a pretty good overview here:
http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/resources/dt-july-2009/Palm.pdf …
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Archive.org has been an absolute godsend for historians and others who use rare books. Case in point: when I was doing PhD research in Lisbon three years ago, I had to search several rare book shops a…