Monday, March 28, 2016

Behavioral Whatever

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I’m going to start a new discipline called behavioral physics. Unlike traditional physics, which assumes that objects just fly apart from e...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Stories about economic historians

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Here is an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Deirdre McCloskey . I have to say that I feel the same way about Deirdre’s...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

New York City Trust Companies

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I am working on a paper about trust company failures in New York State between 1875 and 1925, which I will be presenting at the meeting of t...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Recent Essays on Slavery and the "New" History of Capitalism

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Robert Wright asked  Does Enslaving Others Help the Economy or Not ? at a Historians Against Slavery Symposium. He argues that the claim th...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

The Eviction Economy

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Matthew Desmond wrote an interesting piece in the New York Times , drawing on his new book on eviction, but I’m not sure that the economics...
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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