Monday, December 28, 2015

Some Economic History Links

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Bob Higgs on Doug North The list of papers being presented at Clio sessions at ASSA . Sheilagh Ogilivie on the Champagne fairs. Mich...
Monday, December 21, 2015

Since My Last Post

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The end of the semester has kept me away from this blog for a while. Once grading was done, Mary and I went up to Mercatus to see Eric Chan...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Historians on Edward Baptist

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Al Zambone and Bob Elder discuss the book on the podcast Historically Thinking . Trevor Burnard discusses Baptist’s responses to his c...
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...