Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

Barry Eichengreen's INET talk

Bernardo Batiz-Lazo's blog on new papers in economic history.

I recently posted "Sometimes Bad Things Happen to Good Trust Companies: A Reexamination of the Trust Company Panic of 1907" on SS...

According to the documents at the end of Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North Lyra went on to study economic history. Her dis...

1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin. 1900 Congress passed The Gold Standard Act

The FDA just granted KV Pharmaceutical a monopoly on the sale of a drug to prevent premature births. For years it had been produced by pharm...

Douglass North and Timur Kuran discuss institutions and economic performance . Kuran gives a good taste of the argument in his latest book, ...

There has been a great deal of discussion regarding innovation prompted by Tyler Cowen's new book The Great Stagnation. Part of the argu...