Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

The annual conference of the Economic & Business History Society is going on now in Finland. Unfortunately I was not able to go to the...

I think most people have a very vague notion of what the Industrial Revolution was, and descriptions and pictures are not particularly hel...

Since Kanye West decided that the World had spent enough time paying attention to people that are not him, I have seen a number of suggest...

1.        Cabrera sounds like Captain Renault. He should have actually said that he was “shocked – shocked to find that there were deals l...

At the risk of making this seem like a blog of economic history obituaries, I think it is necessary to note the passing of Diane Lindstrom...

Sad news. John was both an excellent economic historian and a really nice guy. Below is the text of the email about his death from EH.net. H...

If you are in Philadelphia you should go see it at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Reproductions do not do it justice.

While the power was out this weekend, and I was free from electronic distractions, I had a chance to read Ran Abramitzky’s The Mystery of...