At a moment when ultra-processed foods, industrial agriculture, and food subsidies are under political siege, can a New York ...

Adam Smith famously used a pin factory to illustrate the advantages of specialization, choosing this "very trifling manufacture" because the different tasks were performed under one roof: "One man ...

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