The History of the World Economy: From alcohol for survival to caffeine for enlightenment and industry
Chelsea Follett, managing editor of HumanProgress.org, a project of the CATO Institute, explains the importance of both alcohol and caffeine to emerging cultures and developing societies. Nature created both to kill creatures much smaller than us — plants evolved caffeine to poison insect predators, and yeasts produce ethanol to destroy competing microbes. . . .…