How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)
From Freakonomics Radio
Published 8/6/2020
Aisle upon aisle of fresh produce, cheap meat, and sugary cereal — a delicious embodiment of free-market capitalism, right? Not quite. The supermarket was in fact the endpoint of the U.S. government’s battle for agricultural abundance against the U.S.S.R. Our farm policies were built to dominate,…
