Friday, April 5, 2024

Updates on UMW Econ Alumni: Sierra Latham

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  Sierra Latham graduated from UMW in 2009. Since then she has earned masters degrees as Georgetown University and University of Chicago, w...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Updates on UMW Econ Alumni: Alli Baranski

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  Alli graduated in 2018 and is currently an assistant manager at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City.  Here is a recent article she co...
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...