Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Quick Take on Bankers and Empire

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I just finished reading Peter James Hudson’s Bankers and Empire : How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean   Here is John Clegg intervi...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Loan Sharks

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The Exchange , the blog of the Business History Conference, posted a list of new books of interest, and I noticed Loan Sharks: The Birth of...
Monday, May 8, 2017

Two Awards and Two Conferences

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Between end of the semester grading and trying to work on the book on the history of bankruptcy that Mary Eschelbach Hansen and I are writi...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Runaway Slave Ads

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I am putting up this link to a blogpost from last year because of an article in the Washington Post about Ed Baptist's project to digiti...

Credit Relationships and Business Bankruptcy during the Great Depression

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here is an interesting new paper by my favorite economic historian, Mary Eschelbach Hansen, and her co-author Nicholas Ziebarth. Hansen...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

The Two Disciples at the Tomb (Henry Ossawa Tanner)

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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Public Education and the Libertarian Nirvana Fallacy

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Art Carden tweeted a link to Arnold Kling’s blogpost What I Believe About Education This is what Kling believes ( in bold ) 1. The U....
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Some big economic history

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Elis, Haber and Horrillo attempt to explain why different patterns of political and economic development since about 1750 appear to be geogr...