Bradley A. Hansen's Blog
This is a blog about economics, history, law and other things that interest me.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Bankrupt in America
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Bankrupt in America: A History of Debtors, Their Creditors and the Law in the Twentieth Century will be published by The University of ...
Monday, September 2, 2019
A Description of the Problems with Edward Baptist's "The Half Has Never Been Told" for Non-Economists
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I’m writing this because Nikole Hannah Jones said on Twitter that she was trying to understand the argument that economic historians have ...
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...
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