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The Center for New Insitutional Social Science at Washington University has videos from the conference honoring Doug North.

Forbes profile of Alvin Roth presents him as Un-Freakonomics. "In contrast with the authors of bestselling books like Freakonomics, who...

This is the title of a forum in the latest issue of Historically Speaking , with contributions from Robert Whaples, Deirdre McCloskey, Werne...

The June issue of the Gilder Lehrman Institute's online journal History Now focuses on American economic history with essays byJoyce App...

Peter Rousseau "The Market For Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897" NBER Working Paper 15770 A...

Video of Jeff McClurken talking about his book Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia.

The Center for New Institutional Social Sciences at Washington University has posted videos of Doug North talking about his most recent boo...

In the 1780s Oliver Evans created a fully automated flour mill. He obtained patent no. 3 for it. George Washington had the system installed ...