Saturday, February 27, 2016

Some thoughts on "Reassembling the Economic"

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Kenneth Liparito recently published an essay on “ Reassembling the Economic: New Departures in Historical Materialism” in American Histori...
Friday, February 19, 2016

This is what I am talking about

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The New York Times covered a project by Edward Baptist to collect runaway slave ads. The website for the project states that "Such ad...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

for the sake of argument: the evidence against the new history of capitalism

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I was referred to the other day in a conversation on Twitter between Adam Ozimek and Marshall Steinbaum about economic history and the New ...
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Friday, February 12, 2016

More on Cowie on Economics

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There were a couple of other points about Cowie’s critique of economics in the Chronicle that I wanted to address but did not have time for...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Scott Reynolds Nelson reviews Jefferson Cowie

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Related to yesterday's post, Scott Reynolds Nelson reviews Jefferson Cowie's latest book. "Cowie shows a mastery of the fier...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

More Silliness from the History of Capitalism Folk

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In the chronicle of Higher Education Jefferson Cowie asks “Why Are Economists So Small Minded?” Sections from the article are in bold. ...
Friday, February 5, 2016

Was the Gilded Age a Gilded Age?

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  James Livingston argues in the Chronicle of Higher Education that we are not living in a second Gilded Age, primarily because the origin...
Monday, February 1, 2016

Can we maintain our present rate of increase of consumption?

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“we cannot long maintain our present rate of increase of consumption; … the cost of fuel must rise, perhaps within a lifetime, to a rate i...