Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, makes the FT Best Summer Books List: ft.com/content/025b... Just sayin...if you have beach day coming up...

For your weekend reading pleasure... My first piece for The Atlantic is up. Its my take on what is going on at a macro level across the world. I hope you enjoy it, or they will not ask me to do another one: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

And David Jacks with "Suez" #past #history #trade #technology #change #economics #econhis #shipping @chris-meissner.bsky.social

Yeah! Love it too but isn’t it a little dated?

Just released. New WP on product quality and trade liberalization in France, 1850-1874. The economy was producing high quality items throughout, but liberalization decreased avg. quality but some main exports went up in quality. www.nber.org/papers/w33902

Looking forward to speaking later this week at Profs & Pints Alameda on "Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future" Thu, May 15th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM PDT Faction Brewing, Alameda, CA Tix here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof.... More info: www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea

Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @josephestiglitz.bsky.social - Trump's MAGA Economy Driven by Greed, Stupidity and Cowardice | Barry Eichengreen - Will Trump's Weakening of the Dollar Lead to a New Global Reserve Currency? | @chris-meissner.bsky.social - Trump's Hollow Promise of Gain After the Pain

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for this amazing panel!

What if the new bilateral tariffs are just a natural experiment designed by the CEA economists to let trade economists get more credible estimates of trade elasticities? Nice opportunity in any case.

A lot of how I used Twitter in the past was as a way of filing interesting research I came across: I used the advanced search function nearly daily to find old tweets with papers I'd shared. It's good to see that BlueSky has similar advance search functionality! bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Looking forward to chairing this discussion and hearing the interventions from the participants and audience.

With tariffs of 25%, the USA will be either the country with the second highest tariff rate in the world after North Korea - or else the highest (N. Korea isn't reported in the World Bank, so who knows?) Going into autarky mode now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

9 Apr @17:00 CEST The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History' 🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social ✍️ cepr.org/events/inter... #EconSky

Thanks to Donald Boudreaux for his review of my book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850". www.independent.org/publications...

Tracks with the idea they want to take us back to the late 19th c.

If you’re the sort of person who reviews books for the press and you want a review copy of this. Do let me know. Oh, and if you have a podcast and want a guest in late May/early June then yes, yes I will come on your podcast.

Uh, where’s theory on the plot?

This is fascism.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Whatever else happens w/tariffs, mfg productivity doesn't rise #econsky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Academics: Jevin and I would love to see this course used broadly around the world. Would you recommend publishing some sort of journal article about the course? (We don't need the publication for our CVs, but just want to get the word out.) If so, where would you target it? Other promotion ideas?

A sign of the times . . . a whole podcast devoted William McKinley, infant industries, and tinplate from the Indicator at Planet Money www.npr.org/2025/02/05/1...

My book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850" is out now on audio book. I have 3 free download codes. Reply to this post to get one. Check out: www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/on...

The end of history viewpoint so prevalent in contemporary thought is dealt another severe blow: venal corruption and systematic corruption are back. This like other 'I didn't think that could happen again' moments underscore the value of economic history and history more generally.

I am glad to share this promotion for the audiobook version of my history of the rich 🙂👇 70% OFF As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Methodological paradigm shift activated.

Rule # 1 Never go to a conference without at least 4 layers of clothing with wool and polyester/heattech being at least two of these layers. This holds even in the tropics. Probably more so.

Stopped by the ASSA meetings today and my first stop was the book display. What a total shock! Most major book publishers were not there. Disappointing to say the least.

My tribute to the late Manmohan Singh, India's quiet reformer www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

In case you missed it live, here I am talking with NPR's Scott Horsley on 19th century tariffs in the USA. No, tariffs did NOT make American manufacturing great. www.npr.org/2025/01/02/n...

If you're in SF for the ASSA meetings, why not come to our session on international trade in history on Friday at 230 PM? www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

This is a TOTAL mis-interpretation of the history. Incomes were WAY lower in 1890 than in the 1960s (unless ur name was Carnegie or Morgan). I'll be talking on @npratc with @HorsleyScott this afternoon explaining why. You can read more here: drive.google.com/file/d/1SPKF...

This story is always the first thing I think about when I read the latest essay by some tech or finance bro about how we should criminalize scientific fraud. “It could never happen here” loses a lot of force in a country where you have a pseudoscience grifter like RFK Jr running HHS.

Yann LeCun is getting ratioed on LinkedIn 🍿 www.linkedin.com/posts/yann-l...

"I’ve chosen five books that let an English reader form an idea of what a Russian is like, all of which are packaged in an entertaining way"

NEW: "The big economic story of the last four years has been the rise and fall of inflation" American economist @jasonfurman.bsky.social recommends his best economics books of 2024:

Interesting new article in the QJE. doi-org.libproxy.temple.edu/10.1093/qje/...

Incredible honor for me to see my book, “One from the Many,” in this list of “best economics books of 2024” compiled by @jasonfurman.bsky.social for @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

Amazing pioneer of trade and industrial reforms in India. The 1991 reforms changed the trajectory of India's economy & the course of history, in many ways he was the Deng Xiaoping of India.... Manmohan Singh, Indian Premier Behind Economic Changes, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

As I’ve said before, we are in a race between the oligarchic consolidation that brings this scenario about, and the incompetence that could make this administration flounder before that happens…

This, by Levitsky and @dziblatt.bsky.social, is absolutely on the money. I really struggle to see what prevents this from happening, other than basically luck.

Oren Cass asks: "It would be wonderful to see economists willing to try a new course [tariffs?] when the one they’ve pursued has failed so spectacularly for so long." Actually, "we" did try another approach once and this is what we got . . . www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/o...

Happy to see our paper with Bernardo Candia out at the @jeeanews.bsky.social. We use high frequency data and variation from countries that left the gold standard to estimate the cost of bilateral exchange rate appreciations in US cities

Canals are a big deal. Read about how Great Britain reclaimed one and its impact on trade here: www.nber.org/papers/w33250

Just a wee little sparrow at #YoloBypass a little bit ago. #Birds

My last minute gift tip. An old favourite and one of the best books I’ve ever read. Using Vermeer paintings as “windows” into the past to discuss different aspects of early modern globalisation. Superb.

A baker's dozen. 12 books published in 2023-2024 that I have found especially valuable in understanding positive and normative dimensions of inequality plus the book that had the largest implicit effect on my thinking published in the last decade.

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 led to a 72 percent relative increase in bilateral exports for affected country pairs and a likely permanent increase in world trade, from David S. Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner, and Nikolaus Wolf https://www.nber.org/papers/w33250

Interesting work on income mobility and inequality in China over the long-run here by Carol Shiue. cepr.org/voxeu/column...