Comment of the Day: Tim Worstall: John Stuart Mill (1848, 1871): "I'm unconvinced. I think this is the same mistake Keynes made with econ poss for the grandkiddies...

...Missing household unpaid labour.

By 1848 hand spinning was entirely done and gone. And that had been a large part of the female labour burden for what, a millennium? More?

Four millennia, at least. When you meet a woman in the Odyssey, odds are she is at her spindle or her loom...

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