Monday, August 11, 2025

College Major, Employment Status and Earnings

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  The relationship between college major and employment status has been getting a lot of attention. The Mellon Foundation claims that “aroun...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Google AI?

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  Google AI seems to have difficulty using Google. The search was for "Washington Post 25 best musicals of the 21st century." 
Friday, July 25, 2025

Billy's Books: Property and Slavery

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I'm reading Laura Edwards recent paper on  "Trunks, Legal Texts, and the Materiality of Law in the Nineteenth Century."  The J...
Monday, July 7, 2025

Development of the American Economy

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 The NBER  Development of the American Economy Summer Institute is currently taking place.  There are links to some of the papers here and y...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Robert Allen on Arabian Economic History

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 Sean Kenny has a new episode of The Economic History Podcast with Robert Allen.  From the Sand Up: How the Natural Environment shaped the A...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Overlooked Commodities in American Economic History

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  New NBER working paper today Firewood in the American Economy: 1700 to 2010. Nicholas Z. Muller   Despite the central role of firewood in ...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

What is normal?

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  This week the Washington Post ran an article declaring High interest rates, rising inflation: The economy still isn’t normal .  But what ...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Updates on UMW Econ Alumni: Christine Exley

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  Christine Exley graduated from UMW in 2009. She went on to earn a Ph. D. in economics from Stanford University. She taught for several ye...