Bradley A. Hansen's Blog
This is a blog about economics, history, law and other things that interest me.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Economics needs better critics: Jared Bernstein edition
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A couple of weeks ago Vox.com published and essay by Jared Bernstein titled “What economists have gotten wrong for decades : Four economic...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Institutions, Norms, and Culture
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This post started out as my attempt to understand an argument that John Wallis was making about institutions, but it kept expanding. I’m p...
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Blog Post From Nebraska
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We are visiting my family in Kearney, Nebraska. When we are here in the summer we go for walks in the nearby cemetery. There is a lot of...
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...
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