Friday, April 29, 2016

capitalism, institutions, and history

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Related to yesterday’s post, here are a couple of reviews of Geoff Hodgson’s Conceptualizing Capitalism by Christian Barrere and Mehmet K...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Is capitalism a useful concept?

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Thanks to Tom Cutterham at the Junto for blogging about the Capitalism and Slavery session at the meeting of the Organization of American ...
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...