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I might include this in my introductory lecture this coming semester.
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Mauricio Drelichman
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The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
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Giving Tuesday The AEA Summer Program has a long history of opening doors for students from underrepresented backgrounds; this summer it will be hosted at American University. If you care about strengthening the pipeline into economics please consider donating today at
giving.american.edu/page/86824
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Support the AEA Summer Training Program | University Advancement | American University, Washington, DC
https://giving.american.edu/page/86824
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Javier Mejia
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🎙️ New Episode of the Economic and Political History Podcast with Walter Scheidel We talked about how to rethinking Ancient History ▶️ YouTube:
youtu.be/yg4UHRF2y9o
🎧 Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/19nO...
🍎 Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Princeton Economics
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Pier Paolo Creanza’s job market paper studies how the Great Merger Wave (1895-1904) shaped American innovation before WW2.
www.ppcreanza.com
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Sheilagh Ogilvie
2 months ago
Do the preindustrial roots of gender inequality lie in exogenous forces or also in human institutions? “Dividing the Spoils: Inheritance Institutions and Gender Inequality before Industrialization”
@felixschaff.bsky.social
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Jenny Rae Rappaport
3 months ago
I must explain that this is not accurate, particularly the part about Ellis Island. I cannot speak to the Chinese diaspora angle, but many of us have family whose names were expressed in non-Roman alphabets when they immigrated. This is a long thread, but I literally do this for a living. 1/
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Ariel Ron
3 months ago
Had to give a talk about Eli Whitney of all people and anyway now it's an article on Common Place
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How Eli Whitney Single-handedly Started the Civil War . . . and Why That’s Not True - Commonplace
The real Whitney story is less grand than the legend, but more interesting and, ultimately, more edifying.
https://commonplace.online/article/how-eli-whitney-single-handedly-started-the-civil-war/
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Ben Schneider
3 months ago
There are no sources cited but this has more than 500 reposts. Winemaking employed about 64,000 people in 2020. In 1918, coal mining employed more than 750,000.
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Guido Alfani
3 months ago
The recording of the Tawney Lecture on "Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies", which I had the honour to deliver in Glasgow last spring, is now online! Thanks
@echistsoc.bsky.social
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ehs.org.uk/multimedia/t...
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Tawney Lecture 2025: Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies - Economic History Society
https://ehs.org.uk/multimedia/tawney-lecture-2025-economic-inequality-and-social-mobility-in-preindustrial-societies/
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MAGA Making America Grow Ashamed
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John O'Brien
4 months ago
Great course if you're interested in Irish economic history - learnt a lot last year - highly recommend!
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The Age of Sycophancy
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Justin Baragona
4 months ago
He's literally become Don Quixote.
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Justin Wolfers
5 months ago
Menzie Chinn provides a useful roundup of some of the recent misrepresentations and basic misunderstandings of government statistics from Trump's nominee to be our next BLS Commissioner. The clear theme is a commitment to winning a partisan news cycle over the truth:
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
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Trump Nominates EJ Antoni to BLS Commissioner | Econbrowser
From CNBC:
https://econbrowser.com/archives/2025/08/trump-nominates-ej-antoni-to-bls-commissioner
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Joey Politano🏳️🌈
5 months ago
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
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Aki Vehtari
5 months ago
Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)
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are there any conservatives left that know that the Road to Serfdom didn't refer to social security or government funding for healthcare or even regulation. It was about the sort of central planning of economic decisions that Trump and Vance are trying to normalize
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Tim Bresnahan
5 months ago
Peter Temin, economic historian at MIT, has passed away. He worked both on problems of understanding the past (e.g. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?") and how how the past shapes the present (e.g. "The Vanishing Middle Class.") Terrific scholar and mentor, generous critic.
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in a recent Rhodes Center podcast you mentioned a study regarding college majors of founders and hedge fund performance. I was wondering if I could get the citation for that
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Trevon Logan
5 months ago
This is so important. The focus on job numbers ignores the fact that the BLS computes inflation (the CPI) which is directly linked to many government and non-government benefits. Any attempt at politicizing inflation numbers is very, very, very bad…
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Erika McEntarfer
5 months ago
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez
5 months ago
Most US economists (presumably “neoclassicists”) think inequality & climate change are big problems and want to address them. They also believe migration is beneficial & acknowledge the role of institutions and history in racial & gender inequalities. How do I know? We published a paper about it:
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People are making a big deal of the first Pope from the US. As an American Catholic, it really does not matter to me.
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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez
8 months ago
You know, Pope Francis was also from America...
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Bank of Canada
8 months ago
Governor Macklem presents Professor
@rjuhasz.bsky.social
of the University of British Columbia with the 2025 Governor’s Award at the Fellowship Learning Exchange conference 🏆 Congratulations Professor! Learn more:
bit.ly/3YA2wRP
#cdnecon
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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez
8 months ago
“If Biden/a Dem had” etc.
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Nuno Palma
8 months ago
How did local legal institutions power the British Industrial Revolution? In a new working paper (with Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, and Jonathan Chapman
@jnchapman-econ.bsky.social
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Anton Howes
9 months ago
Making pale ale cheaply and at scale was a major prize: a healthier, tastier, and more standardised drink, with major savings in terms of straw that could be better used for feeding cattle. But it was far easier said than done. See my latest post:
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Age of Invention: Just Kiln Time
The Quest for Pale Ale, Part I
https://www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-invention-just-kiln-time
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Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis (IMPA)
9 months ago
🚀 Kicking off IMPA’s Bluesky with big news! Join us this Wed, April 23, as we host
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social
@ikuziemko.bsky.social
@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social
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impa.american.edu/tax-policy-i...
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Tax Policy, Inequality, and the Future of the American Economy | April 23, 2025 – Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis
https://impa.american.edu/tax-policy-inequality-and-the-future-of-the-american-economy-april-23-2025/
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Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis (IMPA)
9 months ago
Extending the TCJA's tax cuts for high earners would forgo these benefits. Read our full report:
impa.american.edu/assessing-th...
And our blog post on
Inequality.org
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inequality.org/article/repu...
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Assessing the Effects of Keeping Top Individual Income Tax Rates Low – Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis
https://impa.american.edu/assessing-the-effects-of-keeping-top-individual-income-tax-rates-low/
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Donal Coffey
9 months ago
Bluesky getting a shoutout in the Legal History blog roundup is a decent indicator that things have picked up a bit more momentum around here. Still lacks the level of engagement that pre-Musk X had, but things seem to be moving in the right direction:
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Weekend Roundup
From Time 's "Made by History" section: Ajay Mehrotra (Northwestern/American Bar Foundation) and John Fabian Witt (Yale) on " Tax Season an...
https://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/weekend-roundup_0293547036.html
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VoxEU @ CEPR
9 months ago
What gives life meaning? In a new
#VoxTalks
#Economics
, David Lagakos
@bostonu.bsky.social
& Hans-Joachim Voth UZH explore what thousands of life stories from 1930s America reveal, using AI to decode meaning in tough times w/
@talknormal.co.uk
🎧https://cepr.org/multimedia/meaningful-life
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Carl T. Bergstrom
9 months ago
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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MeidasTouch
9 months ago
Trump is set to leave the White House early today to go to his Florida golf club after setting the economy on fire with his devastating tariff announcement.
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After Unveiling Tariff Plan, Trump Will Abandon White House Early Today for Miami Golf Club
Trump will then spend the night at Mar-a-Lago
https://meidasnews.com/news/after-unveiling-tariff-plan-trump-will-abandon-white-house-early-today-for-miami-golf-club
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Douglas Irwin
9 months ago
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Even Americans don’t want Trump’s barmy tariffs, writes Douglas Irwin
The trade historian predicts that the damage will be geopolitical as well as economic
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/04/03/even-americans-dont-want-trumps-barmy-tariffs-writes-douglas-irwin
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Cory Smith
9 months ago
In her acceptance speech, Harris said Trump's tariffs would cost families "almost $4000 a year"
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/u...
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Anton Howes
10 months ago
Been informed of a new article just published in *History of Science* by Candice Goucher, the historian & archaeologist who excavated Reeder's Pen in Jamaica. I remember some people asking what she thought, to settle the whole controversy. And she's unequivocal:
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Justin Wolfers
11 months ago
DOGE is getting a whole lot of headlines mainly because our brains aren't wired to make sense of millions, billions, or trillions of dollars. Lemme help: Math out the DOGE numbers and you'll discover that your DOGE dividend may buy you a coffee or two. The problem: There's just not that much waste.
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Javier Corrales
11 months ago
All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.
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Billy Bragg
11 months ago
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
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Thor Berger
12 months ago
Why do firms in poor countries not adopt new technologies? One reason: they're too small. We show in a recent paper that the "invention" of the the modern corporate form historically enabled marginal firms to grow and adopt new technologies. Paper forthcoming in the JEH and
@voxeu.org
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Institutional innovation and the adoption of new technologies
A key barrier to economic development is that while new technologies can offer substantial productivity gains, firms in poorer countries often do not adopt them. This column uses firm-level data to track the adoption of the key technology of the 19th century – the steam engine – during Sweden’s rapid industrial take-off. Much like in many developing countries today, Swedish firms were generally too small to profitably adopt the new technology. The authors document the central role of an institutional innovation – the modern corporation – and demonstrate that when firms were given the opportunity to incorporate, they expanded and adopted steam technology.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/institutional-innovation-and-adoption-new-technologies
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Making America Great Again
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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics
about 1 year ago
NEW EPISODE: Low-income countries face a dilemma: keep taxes low or raise them and risk unrest. In this episode of The Pie,
@benjaminkrause.bsky.social
(Executive Director of BFI) discusses an experiment in Haiti showing how public goods improve tax compliance.
#EconSky
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Social Science History Association
about 1 year ago
Welcome all to the official Bluesky of the Social Science History Association! Thanks to all 500+ who have followed us so far. Feel free to send messages or tag us is anything that might be of interest to other social science historians. We will try to share what we can. Stay tuned for more soon!
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