Wednesday, June 26, 2019

“You think it’s dead but de past ain’t stopped breathin’ yet.”

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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” William Faulkner, 1951. “You think it’s dead but de past ain’t stopped breathin’ yet...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Gavin Wright on Slavery and Anglo-American Capitalism

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Gavin Wright's Tawney Lecture  Slavery and Anglo-American Capitalism Revisited is now available
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Public Goods, Private Roads, and the Case of Scandinavia

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In We Can Build the Roads, and Other Things Too Mike Munger argues that roads are not public goods and that the examples of Sweden and Fi...
Monday, May 6, 2019

More Evo-Nonsense

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Occasionally, Evonomics provides something useful. For instance, it re-ran the blog post “ Where do pro-Social institutions Come From? How...
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...