Monday, June 30, 2025

Overlooked Commodities in American Economic History

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  New NBER working paper today Firewood in the American Economy: 1700 to 2010. Nicholas Z. Muller   Despite the central role of firewood in ...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

What is normal?

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  This week the Washington Post ran an article declaring High interest rates, rising inflation: The economy still isn’t normal .  But what ...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Updates on UMW Econ Alumni: Christine Exley

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  Christine Exley graduated from UMW in 2009. She went on to earn a Ph. D. in economics from Stanford University. She taught for several ye...
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...