Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

This is a blog about economics, history, law and other things that interest me.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Some Digital History

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A digital reconstruction of Washington, D.C. in 1814 The Junto is doing a week long roundtable review of Richard S. Dunn's A Tale of...
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

The Economic Benefits of Finance

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A new working paper by Luigi Zingales
Monday, January 19, 2015

New Books in Business History

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From the Exchange If you are working on a book you might want to think about how to put capitalism in the title. In his  keynote addres...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

New Stuff on the History of Bankruptcy

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Mary O’Sullivan “A Fine Failure: Relationship Lending, Moses Taylor, and the Joliet Iron and Steel Company, 1860-1888,” Business History...

Forecasting Recessions

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Robert Shiller recently wrote about on the value of economics. I agree with most of what he says, but he also seems to perpetuate a myth...
Monday, January 5, 2015

Economics needs better critics

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The Washington Post describes protests at the ASSA. They suggest that students ask their economics professors How does climate change ...

The Benefits of Doing Historical Research

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Anthony Grafton and James Grossman in The American Scholar   "The best defense for research, however, is that it’s in the archive ...
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...
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B. H.
Professor of Economics University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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