Friday, July 28, 2017

Some recent history and economic history

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The latest issue of History Now from the Gilder Lehrman Institute is about the history of the blues and jazz. It has this nice list of lin...
Monday, July 17, 2017

The Importance of Honesty in Historical Research

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I am not now, nor have I ever been a fellow at the Mercatus Institute or any other institute that receives funding from the Koch brothers. ...
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Friday, July 7, 2017

Internet Videos and Economic History

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I frequently post videos related to economic history, usually recordings of presentations at seminars or conferences. For the most part I l...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Nebraska, The Good Life

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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.  ...

The Golden Age of Economic History?

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At Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen responded to a reader: C. inquires: Why do we live in the golden age of economic history? Was the...
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Thursday, June 15, 2017

Treasure Island

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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...

some interesting talks and a couple of articles

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I’m surprised I had not come across these videos before. They are from a conference at Williams College on Historical Persistence in Compar...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Some Recent Economic History

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