Bradley A. Hansen's Blog
This is a blog about economics, history, law and other things that interest me.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
What Happened to The Standard of Living During the Gilded Age?
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Richard White devotes a chapter of his new book on Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, The Republic for Which It Stands, to declining stan...
Saturday, February 10, 2018
Three Revolutions in Economic History
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Here is a link to Gareth Austin’s Inaugural Lecture " Three Revolutions in Economic History " » This is his descripti...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Follow up on Capitalism and History
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I have seen some interesting responses on twitter to the new Capitalism and History journal that I mentioned yesterday. She is not alone, b...
Monday, January 15, 2018
Some business history stuff
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Here are two recent papers on culture and business history Naomi Lamoreaux Cultural Change and Business History Abstract This pap...
Monday, December 25, 2017
Merry Christmas
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The Holy Family by Henry Ossawa Tanner
Monday, December 18, 2017
The Mellon Tax Cuts of the 1920s
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Opponents of tax cuts claim that the large income tax cuts in the 1920s caused increased inequality and the Great Depression. For instance,...
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Clegg on Capitalism and Slavery
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I just ran across John Clegg’s "Credit Market Discipline and Capitalist Slavery in Antebellum South Carolina." Social Science ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Our Lady of Guadalupe
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