Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

We spent the last week in Kearney, NE visiting family. Kearney is easy to find; it is at the bottom of where the Platte dips south.  ...

At Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen responded to a reader: C. inquires: Why do we live in the golden age of economic history? Was the...

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...