Saturday, March 30, 2024

What fraction of output was produced by enslaved people?

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  Paul Rhode has an important new paper in the January issue of Explorations in Economic History (" What fraction of antebellum US nati...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Emancipation and Aggregate Economic Gains

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   I recently listened to Rick Hornbeck on the Chicago Booth Review Podcast in the episode An Economist Debunks Gone With the Wind Its kind ...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Word on Fire/ Pants on Fire

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  I got an email notification last week for a new episode of Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire podcast  asking  Is There a Catholic Antidote to t...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Planet Money on the political economy of rum in the U.S.

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  Planet Money has a nice story about rum production ( The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum ) in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, parti...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

What is Capital? Part 1: Bank Capital

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  This is from The New York Times article Why Big Banks (and Some Odd Allies) Oppose a Plan to Protect Banks : “Regulators are calling fo...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Richard Thaler and Behavioral Economics

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  I was listening to a recent episode of Hidden Brain the other day about anomalies, specifically things that are supposedly anomalies in e...
Saturday, September 9, 2023

History's Replication Crisis

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  Anton Howes recently asked Does History Have a Replication Crisis ?   The question is one that Howes has been concerned with for some time...
Sunday, August 27, 2023

Economic and Business History Seminars

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Some have not yet been updated for the current academic year. Let me know of any that should be added. Yale Economic History Workshop Harv...