Friday, April 26, 2019

Why Tyler Cowen is wrong about the Wizard of Oz

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This is part of Tyler Cowen’s conversation with Margaret Atwood at Conversations with Tyler ATWOOD:  Let’s talk about  The Wizard of Oz...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Historians and Economists

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This is a short list of book reviews that I think support an argument that I have been making for a while now about the relationship betwe...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

Some Recent Economic History of Slavery and Its Political and Economic Legacy

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The other day on twitter, Seth Rockman and I were discussing current work on slavery by economic historians. He thought that there was “mo...
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...