Friday, January 25, 2019

Loan Sharks Posts Redux

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Blogger tells me that a lot of people are looking at this post on loan sharks from 2017.  That post is mostly about what I regarded as a bi...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Lyra

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Since several students asked about my dog, here is a picture of Lyra Since this blog is supposedly about economics, here is a link to w...
Friday, November 2, 2018

The History of the History of Sears and Jim Crow

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After the announcement that Sears had filed for bankruptcy Louis Hyman put out tweet thread about Sears role undermining Jim Crow in the Sou...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Accounting for Slavery

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I got around to reading Caitlin Rosenthal’s Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management . Rosenthal does not need me to sing her praise...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

Accounting for Capitalism

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I read Michael Zakim’s new book Accounting for Capitalism: The world the clerks made last week. I saw Tyler Cowen’s brief review on Marg...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Henry Clay, Edward Baptist, and the Whipping Machine

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Along with the term “pushing system” that Baptist invented and attributed to slaves and his fictional estimate of the economic impact of s...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

That's Just Econ 101 Part 2

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The other day I said that when someone says something is just Econ 101 you can be confident it is probably not Econ 101. I have a couple m...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Productive and Unproductive Error

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The list of new working papers this morning from nep-his contained one by Richard Langlois, “The Fisher Body Case and Organizational Econ...