Sunday, April 26, 2015

Education, Economics and History

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Here is a nice essay on the benefits of higher education from the New York Times.   Also from the New York Times is Mankiw on th...
Monday, April 13, 2015

What Is Capitalism?

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S-USIH.org has the fourth of James Livingston’s essays on What is Called History at the End of Modernity . among other tings, Livingston...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Standards of Accuracy in Historical Scholarship

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At H-SHEAR Daniel Feller writes about Standards of Accuracy in Historical Scholarship  in recent works by Johnson and Baptist and starts an ...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Another Rant on Cotton and Growth

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This is one of the reasons why books like Empire of Cotton and The Half has Never Been Told irritate me so much. People like Harold My...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Cheap as Chips

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An essay on open access from the blog of the Omohundro Institute. "  Debates about Open Access often take place at a level of abstra...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Some new stuff

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Cohen and Mandler on silent changes to the History Manifesto. The preliminary program for BHC EBHA is up. Lindert and Williamson...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Open Access and Predatory Publishing

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LSE Impact Blog has an essay by Monica Berger  and  Jill Cirasella   on Open Access: “ Although predatory publishers predate open ac...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

More on The History Manifesto

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American Historical Review has Cohen and Mandler’s critique of The History Manifesto and Armitage and Guldi’s reply. Cohen and Mandler...