{"id":3366,"date":"2026-06-02T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:08:25","slug":"messy-versus-tidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"Messy versus Tidy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <em>Dublin Review of Books<\/em>, May 29th 2026:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shadow of Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith hangs over two contemporary efforts to explain what makes nations wealthy and what makes empires decline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full article is <a href=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/article\/messy-versus-tidy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drb.ie\/article\/messy-versus-tidy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Dublin Review of Books, May 29th 2026: The shadow of Edward Gibbon and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,50,51],"tags":[9,131,132,74],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-otherwriting","category-slider","category-new","tag-book","tag-book-review","tag-economic-history","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}