Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Economists and Historians on Economic History

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On March 10  Mokyr and Beckert will discuss the path of economic history at Brown.  I have heard this referred to as a debate but the websi...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Stephen Mihm and the State of Financial History

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The winter 2016 issue of The Journal of the Early Republic includes several papers from a conference on Economic History’s Many Muses, hel...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Need a Break From Reading Economic History?

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If you need a break from reading economic hsitory you can watch these videos or listen to these podcasts about economic history. Videos: ...
Friday, January 13, 2017

Economic History in 2016: American Economic History

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I posted recently about economic history in 2016 and said that I would have another post that focused on American Economic History. Here it...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Economics of Mixed Martial Arts Training

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This is from bjpenn.com. Firas Zahabi is the head coach at Tristar Gym in Montreal. he has worked with Georges St. Pierre and number of ...
Friday, December 30, 2016

Economic History in 2016

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This is my subjective assessment of some of the major developments in economic history in the last year. Most of the papers I cite are from...
Thursday, December 22, 2016

My Response to Seth Rockman's Tweetstorm

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I prefer blogging to tweeting. Below is my response to Seth Rockman’s tweetstorm . His tweets are in bold. 2. @BAllanHansen Your pie...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Counterfactuals and the Study of History

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This blogpost was prompted by Marc Parry’s Shackles and Dollars article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Specifically, the idea attri...