Monday, November 30, 2015

More on Doug North

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I don’t think anyone has yet mentioned Doug’s influence on the teaching of economics. The Economics of Public Issues (19 th edition) is s...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Just Listen

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In response to this Huffington Post article   Jaci Evan's (a former student of mine who is about to finish her  Ph. D. at U. of Marylan...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Doug North

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My friend Tawni Hunt Ferrarini told me this morning that Doug North passed away last night. Douglass C. North was, of course, a Nobel Memor...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Coase on Lighthouses and Economics

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Earlier this week Daniel Shestakov noted the publication of a new paper on lighthouses by Erik Lindberg . He and I then had a brief exchang...
Monday, November 9, 2015

More on economic history

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I forgot to add this to the post about new papers on economic history Ran Abramitzky Economics and the Modern Economic Historian  (ungated...

economics of open access

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The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article on open access publishing . It notes what many open access advocates don't...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Recent papers about economic history

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Naomi Lamoreaux “Beyond the Old and the New: Economic History in the United States” Claude Diebolt and Mike Haupert Clio’s Contribution...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Isn't this what we are supposed to do?

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Pseudoerasmus  recently posted an analysis of the issues involved in the slave productivity debate. He also sent me a link to an interestin...