Saturday, January 30, 2016

Recent Working Papers in American Economic History

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Price Fishback How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s NBER Wor...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

What I've Been Listening To

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Liz Covart’s Ben Franklin’s World is a podcast on early American history. Recently she has teamed with the Omohundro Institute to produce...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Economist's empirical judgments

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The Economist article I wrote about the other day cites work by Anthony Randazzo and Jonathan Haidt. The paper “Are Economists Influenced...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Why we don't worry about cholera (in the U.S.)

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Nice piece by Michael Keenan Gutierrez about eradicating cholera in New York , largely through public investment in sewers. I think he may ...
Friday, January 22, 2016

The stuff we don't agree on is the fun stuff

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A lot of people have been talking about the latest Economist article about why economics is different than “science”: whereas their peers ...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Noah Smith on Slavery and Economic Growth

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In the long run, most wealth is produced, not plundered. Slavery created bad institutions that inhibited industrialization. Yesterday I w...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

More Obnoxious Nonsense from Ed Baptist

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Noah Smith tweeted this today.   In the long run, most wealth is produced, not plundered. Slavery created bad institutions that inhibit...

New in Business History

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The Business History conference has posted the Program for the 2016 Annual Meeting. There are many interesting looking sessions. For i...