Thursday, September 24, 2015

Disruption Disrupted

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The Chronicle of Higher Education examines challenges to Clay Christensen’s theory of disruption. His The Innovator’s Dilemma has become o...

The historian's craft and economics

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My paper (with Mary Eschelbach Hansen) “The historian’s craft and economics” is now available on First View at the Journal of Institutiona...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Economics really needs better critics

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Per Byland recently complained that economists had killed economics “ What we have seen over the course of the last eighty years is a ...

Micro economic history and some digital history too

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William Easterly, Laura Freschi and Steven Pennings argue for the benefits of micro economic history of development by examining the develo...

Round table on Edward Baptist's Half has Never Been Told

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The September Journal of Economic History has a round table of reviews of Edward Baptist’s book The Half Has Never Been told, with review...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Tariffs and the Civil War, or 95% of All Statistics Are Made Up

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A recent letter to the editor of our local paper argued that secession and the Civil War were caused by high tariffs not slavery. The Conf...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

History, Facts and Life Expectancy

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Earlier this week on twitter Peter Bent mentioned Richard Yeselson’s review of Steve Fraser’s Age of Acquiescence: the Life and Death of A...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Some random stuff

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Did heights actually decline during the industrial revolution in the United States? Probably not. New website about research on bank...