Sunday, February 17, 2019

The Newer History of Capitalism

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Robert Wright has a blog post about Why the History of Capitalism Subfield Got Slavery (and Almost Everything Else) so Terribly Wrong His...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Women in Economics

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Marginal Revolution University is starting a series on Women in Economics.  It reminded me to post that the St. Louis Federal Reserve (whi...

Ayn Rand and American Business History

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I saw a celebration of Ayn Rand online the other day (her birthday was Feb. 2). So thought I would post this, though I don't think you...
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...