Bradley A. Hansen's Blog
This is a blog about economics, history, law and other things that interest me.
Monday, December 29, 2014
Is Economics Already Open Access?
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We just got the December 2014 issue of The American Economics Review. It took me about 10 minutes to find ungated versions of all the pap...
Friday, December 26, 2014
An appreciation of E.P. Thompson
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This is The American Conservative's Christmas reading list . Benjamin Schwarz, the national editor of The American Conservative, chose E...
Does History Need a Manifesto?
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Peter Mandler and Deborah Cohen review The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi and David Armitage. The review provides an interesting and optim...
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Business History from HBR
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The Birth of Commercial Credit
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Cotton, Slavery and Economic Growth
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Recently, several historians (Edward Baptist and Sven Beckert) have attempted to make slavery and cotton the driving force behind America...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
If all else fails just make it up
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In the Washington Post today Jim Tankersley reports on the negative influence of finance on the economy. He reports that “ In perhaps t...
More new "history" of capitalism
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Sven Beckert has an essay in the Chronicle Review, markting his new book. Historians “observe, quite rightly, that the world...
Special Issue on Piketty's Capital
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The British Journal of Sociology has a special issue on Piketty's Capital. All the articles are available free of charge.
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