<span>The
economist Julian Simon bet in 1980 that the prices of five free traded
commodities would decline in ten years. In 1990 Simon won this bet against
the neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich.</span>
Because the British government was taxing them heavily.
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a hereditary commander in chief in feudal Japan. Because of the military power concentrated in his hands and the consequent weakness of the nominal head of state (the mikado or emperor), the shogun was generally the real ruler of the country until feudalism was abolished in 1867.
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