Our December issue is out, with five article, four book reviews, and two letters to the editor. This is the last issue edited by Pedro Duarte and Jiména Hurtado. As incoming editors, we would like to take the opportunity to express a great thanks for the excellent job they have done!

➡️ Œconomia 15(3) — Accounting for Quality in Economics Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social 🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19... Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

New open-access article at JHET by Miriam Bankovsky, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, and Marianne Johnson, which discusses family economics and poverty around the turn of the 20th century: doi.org/10.1017/S105...

New book review out at JHET, Minghui Hu reviews Amelung and Schefold's edited volume comparing European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: doi.org/10.1017/S105...

This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school. And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school. And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New article at JHET: doi.org/10.1017/S105... On Heinrich Dietzel's attempt to reconcile the different camps in the German Methodenstreit of the late 19th century.

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago is about Saul Alinsky, the famous community organizer and author of Rules for Radicals. To my surprise, he studied crime, hanging out with Al Capone's gang, while studying sociology around 1930. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/saul-alins...

Antoine Missemer and two guest editors Béatrice Cointe and Christophe Cassen are launching a call for papers for a special issue of Œconomia on the history of climate economics. journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

New JHET article out, open access.

"If courts endorse the broad definition of 'invasion' advocated by the admin, dire consequences will follow.... the federal government could suspend the writ of habeas corpus and detain people (including U.S. citizens) at will." -- @ilyasomin.bsky.social on Cato's amicus brief in AEA case @cato.org

1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.) 3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories

This week's post 'Hotel Life' is actually coming from Chicago, where I am doing archival work. It reflects, from my own long-stay hotel-room, on the 1920s fear that the rich and upper middle-class would give up their homes to live in hotels. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life

This week's post 'Hotel Life' is actually coming from Chicago, where I am doing archival work. It reflects, from my own long-stay hotel-room, on the 1920s fear that the rich and upper middle-class would give up their homes to live in hotels. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life

I just received a document from DHS showing that it has a detained population of 65,000, a staggering total, nearing half the total prison population detained by the Bureau of Prisons. The project is to jam them in horrible conditions until they give up their rights to stay

hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

The perfect symbol of a rigged economy

The perfect symbol of a rigged economy

This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...

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New paper alert Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access! In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity

New paper alert Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access! In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

This week's Seeing like Chicago post talks about the importance of 'seeing through the eyes of others' and how it became a moral-political project among sociologists. With several shout-outs to the great new book Liberal Emancipation by Mikayla Novak. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/seeing-thr...

Among the suspected effects are a higher frequency of tropical storms, which scientists earlier linked to climate change.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

New Seeing Like Chicago post discusses real and imagined differences between the city and countryside. With a discussion of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Albert Blumenthal's Small Town Stuff seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...

New Seeing Like Chicago post discusses real and imagined differences between the city and countryside. With a discussion of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Albert Blumenthal's Small Town Stuff seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...

The 7 million Americans who took the streets for 'No Kings' made history, and they did something even more important They got under the skin of Donald Trump and his dictatorial regime, on a day that showed that most Americans love democracy instead My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...

This week's Seeing Like Chicago's post discusses some very surprising links between the Studs Lonigan trilogy (a coming of age story about the Irish-American Studs) and hip-hop culture, including a 1920's Dapper Dan O'Doul. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...

This week's Seeing Like Chicago's post discusses some very surprising links between the Studs Lonigan trilogy (a coming of age story about the Irish-American Studs) and hip-hop culture, including a 1920's Dapper Dan O'Doul. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...

Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This week's Substack post discusses the links between Richard Wright's classic Chicago novel, Native Son, and Harold Garfinkel's early (ethnomethodological) studies of the way juries work in Chicago. Or simply, how institutional racism was understood in the 1940s.

This week's Substack post discusses the links between Richard Wright's classic Chicago novel, Native Son, and Harold Garfinkel's early (ethnomethodological) studies of the way juries work in Chicago. Or simply, how institutional racism was understood in the 1940s.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Rousseau, Adaptive Preferences, and Social Entrepeneurship open.substack.com/pub/digressi... Shout outs to @erwindekker.bsky.social, @lastpositivist.bsky.social, @serenekhader.bsky.social

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Then, in 32(5), Lenfant reviews Bridel (following on their interview also in the same issue), Greitens reviews a new translation of Schurtz, @madelinew.bsky.social reviews @arnaudorain.bsky.social, @erwindekker.bsky.social reviews Slobodian www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...