Bradley A. Hansen's Blog

I saw Tim Harford’s list of best podcasts. I agree with some, but thought he missed some good ones. I don’t know if these are the best, b...

The UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History hosted an event on the topic of Free and Unfree Labor in March. Below is a link ...

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...