Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Business History and the Great Divergence

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Luca Zan and Kent Deng “Micro Foundations in the Great Divergence Debate: Opening Up a New Perspective” LSE Department of Economic History...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Steinbaum on Public Choice

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Marshall Steinbaum has published  a sort of review  of NancyMacLean's  Democracy in Chains  in which describes “the racist origins of P...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Trust Company Failures and Institutional Change in New York, 1875-1925

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My paper "Trust Company Failures and Institutional Change in New York, 1875-1925" is now available under First View at Enterprise...
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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