Monday, October 21, 2013

Economics and Science

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In the New York times, Raj Chetty discusses the Nobel winners and economics as a science.  It is much better than this silly essay by Alex...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Ronald Coase

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Coase passed away. Thanks to Doug North and Lee Benham, I was fortunate to see Ronald Coase in person on several occasions. I remember...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Internship Information

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Think Tanks The Cato Institute The Brookings Institution The American Enterprise Institute The Heritage Foundation The Urban Insti...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Another Loss

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This has been a rough couple of months for Economic History and American History. I posted earlier this summer abou the death of Bob Fogel. ...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

More New History of Capitalism (aka lets just make stuff up)

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Since the NY Times article on the New History of Captalism, I have been trying to catch up with the recent work in this field. Unfortunately...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Death of Robert Fogel

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Bob Fogel has died. Here is the obituary from the NY Times.
Friday, May 31, 2013

Wealth

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The Washington Post has an article based on research at the St. Louis Fed, showing that net worth has not recovered from the recession. The ...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Shame on the OAH: A Rant About Joanthan Levy's Freaks of Fortune

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The Organization of American Historians recently presented Jonathan Levy’s Freaks of Fortune with book three awards. If this is as good as...