Last week Ezra Klein wrote this. His main point, the way I read it, is that the Obama stimulus was insufficient. But he makes a few other claims, one of which is that the government should have stopped firing people and it should have even hired more, even in totally bogus make-work jobs -- one assistant [...]

Big circles designate villages that sent goods to the market. Small circles designate other villages. Double lines mean postal roads, single lines mean other public roads. The symbols on the list mean (in this order): cattle, pigs, poultry, grains (autumn, spring), bread, fruit, melons, cabbage, root vegetables, butter, wood, hay. If anybody reading this ever [...]