Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

I just received a job market packet from a large university, which I will not name. The dissertations include "Three Essays in Applied ...

Here is an example of an attempt at a private solution to a negative externality .

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...