You encounter economic claims every day — on YouTube, in the news, from politicians. You can’t evaluate most of them. This platform teaches you how: rigorous economics, real-world provocations, honest judgments.
An Interactive Choropleth
Watch the Great Divergence unfold — 200 years of GDP per capita on an interactive world map. Play through decades from 1820 to 2020, hover any country for context, and see which regions industrialized first.
An Interactive Language Map
Every mapped language on Earth — switch between world, Europe, and East Asia views, zoom from families to branches to individual languages, and trace how the world's linguistic diversity is distributed.
An Interactive Language Map
Explore how Europe's languages are distributed geographically. Six language families, 50 languages with histories, relationships, and surprising connections.
An Interactive Language Map
Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Japonic, Koreanic and more — explore how the languages of East Asia spread across the region.
An Interactive Historical Map
Trace the ancient trade networks connecting China to Rome. 15 routes, 27 cities, from Chang'an to Constantinople — with the goods, empires, and economics that drove global exchange.
The Economics of the Slave Trade
Four centuries of voyages between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. 24 ports, 116 voyage aggregates, 1500–1870 — with the economic context and long-run legacies of the system.
Silk Road & Atlantic on One Map
Scrub a single timeline from 200 BCE to 1870 and watch the overland silk routes fade as the Atlantic system rises. Built to show the 15th-century hinge and what replaced it.
