Tuesday, June 12, 2018

How I Became a Business Historian (a bit of shameless self-promotion)

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Yesterday, the June issue of Enterprise & Society , the journal of the Business History Conference , arrived, and my paper Trust Comp...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Was Slavery Central to American Economic Development?

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Antebellum Economic Growth  Last week on Twitter Matt Yglesias raised a question about changes in how historians interpreted slavery...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Podcasts I Listen To

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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...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Free and Unfree Labor: The Political Economy of Capitalism, Share-Cropping, and Slavery

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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 ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Economic & Business History Society

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The annual conference of the Economic & Business History Society is going on now in Finland. Unfortunately I was not able to go to the...
Monday, May 14, 2018

Industrial Revelations

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I think most people have a very vague notion of what the Industrial Revolution was, and descriptions and pictures are not particularly hel...
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Thursday, May 3, 2018

Stop Telling Kanye to Read Ed Baptist

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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...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Thoughts on Kochs and GMU

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