Friday, June 17, 2016

Some Random Economic History

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The Program of the next meeting of the Economic History Association. The Economic History Society now has a blog: The Long Run Pse...
Saturday, June 11, 2016

Fugitive Slave Ads and the Runaway New History of Capitalism

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The OAH recently tweeted about a new post at the Process blog.  The tweet asked if runaway slave ads can change the way we study slavery.T...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Loan Sharks

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(Chicago Tribune Nov. 7, 1897) Discussion about restricting payday lending has been in the news recently. We first became ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Economic and Business History Society

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I first presented a paper at EBHS in 1996 in Savannah. My first, publication was in Essays in Economic and Business History . I go to the m...

Economics still needs better critics

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I just got back from the meeting of the Economic and Business History Society in Montreal, and I was going to blog about that, but then so...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Science Fiction and Economics

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My friend John McAdams said that he was going to internet stalk me this week. This post is for him. The Relationship Between Science Fict...

Random Economic History Stuff

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1 . I will be in Montreal this week at the meeting of the Economic and Business History Society. Here is the program . I’ll be presenting a...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

New Institutional Economics and Economic History

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The University of Wisconsin La Crosse has posted several videos of talks given at a conference there on New Institutional Economics and Econ...