Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

The New York Times reports on attempts to redevelop my old home. We moved to Treasure Island (T.I.) in 1973, when I was 10, and lived there...

I’m surprised I had not come across these videos before. They are from a conference at Williams College on Historical Persistence in Compar...

Podcasts At the Economics Detective Jari Eloranta talks about war in economic history , Nuno Palma talks about money, trade, and econom...

Maybe I am writing this too early in the morning to see what I am missing here. I really mean that . I feel like I must be missing somethin...

Stephanie McCurry reviews Slavery’s Capitalism in the Times Literary Supplement . She raises interesting questions about the implications ...

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

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...

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...