Thursday, October 29, 2015

Some Big Question Economic History

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Joel Mokyr on the Culture of Growth Working paper by Koyama, Moriguchi and Sng on the development of state capacity in China and Japan. ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

More on Capitalism and Slavery

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There is more discussion of capitalism and slavery over at the Junto , prompted by Robin Balckburn's review of Emprire of Cotton and Joh...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Christine Exley the Economic Rockstar

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The latest edition of Economic Rockstar Podcast features Christine Exley of the Harvard Business School. Among other things, she talks ab...
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...