I’m willing to bet you can’t imagine how gardening somehow contributed to socio-economics… well, it did

Back in the early 1900’s an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, remarkably influential in his time, was also a keen gardener. Whilst carefully tending to growing peas, he noticed that 80 percent of his peas were produced by only 20 percent of the peapods. You and I may not have thought anything remarkable about that, but Pareto, a keen observer of economic inequalities noticed that this extends to Read the rest of this entry »