Eu trabalho com educação em perspectiva histórica, mas concordo com o @michaelfranca1789.bsky.social que há outros fatores importantes pra desigualdade. Interessante entrevista.

Ótima entrevista do @michaelfranca1789.bsky.social à @rutepina.bsky.social, para a BBC Brasil. O Michael lança seu novo livro "A Loteria do Nascimento: filha do porteiro termina universidade, mas não alcança filho do rico" (Editora Jandaíra), nesta quarta-feira, 20/8 www.bbc.com/portuguese/a...

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.

Botafogo (Brazilian football team) has a centre back called David Ricardo. Would you hire a liberal centre back?

O artigo do Celso sobre o papa Francisco está muito bom. Não sou católico, mas como luterano acompanhei as ações do papa em fóruns ecumênicos, sempre buscando o diálogo e o testemunho cristão conjunto. Que Deus o tenha.

Leonardo Weller faz um bom apanhado da relação histórica dos EUA com o protecionismo. É loucura, mas demorou pra acontecer.

Martin Luther (1520): "And would to God that every town also had a girls' school ...” From "To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Improvement of the Christian Estate" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

@npto.bsky.social escreveu algo sensato sobre o show de horrores trnasmitido ontem. Envie para seu amigo insensato. www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/cels...

Uma boa resenha de Samuel Pessôa sobre o livro de Nuno Palma acerca do atraso econômico português: blogdoibre.fgv.br/posts/causas...

Isso seria heróico, mas acho que infelizmente haveria uma reação. A desconexão do Judiciário com o mundo é muito grande.

Dividindo por zero fica difícil, doutor Ives Gandra.

As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.

Come work for me at UChicago @beckerfriedman.bsky.social ! I'm hiring a full-time pre-doc to start this April/May/June for data analysis on crime, education, mental health, and organized crime, mostly on projects in Latin America. Details & apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityof...

Excited to announce that our paper, “The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals”, co-authored with @jacobgreenspon.bsky.social @drodrik.bsky.social, is now published in World Development! 🌍📚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Here’s a quick summary 🧵

Repostando aí para retificar um engano. Leo Weller e Fernando Limongi tem dado várias entrevistas e aparecido na mídia para falar do livro "Democracia Negociada". Por engano, marquei uma @ errada antes, mas enfim - o livro e as entrevistas estão interessantes!

Leonardo Weller, professor de história econômica na FGV EESP, conta um pouco da história do instituto da Medida Provisória nesse artigo sobre o poder do executivo. Vale a leitura.

I cannot imagine a better way to approach an economist’s research agenda, and I just realized that “the reluctant economist” nicely summarizes my (infinitely more modest) experience, too. The rest of the obituary is available here: eh.net/richard-ains...

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 column here:

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

Na revista HE & HE, dossiê sobre os 200 anos da imigração alemã no Brasil editado por Bruno Witzel de Souza e Miqueias Henrique Mügge. Uma grande contribuição com novas evidências e perspectivas sobre uma das mais importantes correntes imigratórias. Ver link a seguir: 1/2

If you are interested in the economic history of the colonial period across various regions of the world, stay tuned for the release of this book next year. www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South CFP Deadline 3 February 2025 Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE Organised by myself and Neil Cummins Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group

@khoavuumn.bsky.social raised the bar.

This is finally out! Our paper on a new dataset of average years of schooling in Brazil, 1925-2015 is available at Economic History of Developing Regions. Again we thank the editorial leadership of Alfonso Herranz, whose advices and conduction really improved the paper: doi.org/10.1080/2078...

As a Lutheran and an economic historian, I felt compelled, by grace, to repost this thread. (This is not a proselityzing post :-))

Any advice on which tablet to buy if my main purpose is reading papers?

#autopromoçãodeslavada A coluna do Samuel Pessôa de hoje citou o texto do Philipp Ehrl e meu www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/samu...

Essa é uma boa discussão. Tanto Lane quanto pseudo levantam pontos importantes.

Bom texto do Thales sobre o Nobel, detalhando as críticas aos dados de AJR (2001).

Para a comunidade acadêmica de economistas, a premiação de Acemoglu, Johnson e Robinson pela Academia Sueca era apenas questão de tempo. Em artigos seminais, AJR exploraram a relação entre a expansão colonial europeia a partir do século XVI e desempenho econômico. +

This is an unusual week: two publications and one accepted paper. The paper below, just published at RHE / JILAEH, deals with an industrial policy in the 1970s that ended up harming primary schooling in Brazil. It is out there, but comments are always welcome! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Agora que acabou a eleição, vocês têm dicas de colchão pra comprar?

I had a very good experience submitting a paper to the Economic History of Developing Regions (EHDR) - not because it was eventually accepted after two resubmissions, but because of the commendable way the editor Alfonso Herránz conducted the process.

Artigo recém publicado (em português) meu e da Isabela Menetrier sobre despesas em educação no Brasil, 1933-2010 www.revistas.usp.br/ee/article/v...

How the "Ramsey formula" came to define time discounting in economics (1950-2000) with Pedro Garcia Duarte Full draft, comments much welcome #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Como saiu o resultado dos papers aprovados para o congresso da Anpec, não tem por que não divulgar essa nota que escrevi com o Samuel Pessôa sobre década de 1930, quebra estrutural e crescimento econômico moderno no Brasil. Comentários são bem-vindos. drive.google.com/file/d/1x3nf...

Very cool datasets + packages from Melissa Dell, to use alongside her JEL paper on ‘Deep Learnjng for Economists’ #EconSky 📉📈 HT Kevin Bryan, via the other place econdl.github.io

A few weeks ago, I spoke on a panel about publishing at the CSWEP’s CeMENT workshop. I wanted to briefly share some of that advice here.

One of the biggest intellectual hurdles that I think my coauthors and I face is the fear of having "just" a descriptive paper. The credibility revolution and the interest/obsession with causality in the social sciences brought great things, but there is the danger of crowding out other contributions

gráfico do dia: quanto mais renda, menos imposto de renda

📉📈 Economics is a Field of Software Engineering https://www.maximum-progress.com/p/economics-is-a-field-of-software "The vast majority of #economics papers published today are collections of text, code, and data. But very often only the text part of this package is reviewed and … 1/3

As fsr as I know, Brazilians suddenly arrived here because of a legal decision that prevents Brazilians from accessing X. But when D. Acemoglu stated his reasons to leave X, I could not understand if anything else happened there (since I am in Brazil). Does anyone know what happened (if anything)?

Estamos de volta! Seminário de Economia Política e História Econômica FGV EESP, 12/09 16h. Bruno Witzel (Tübingen) ‘Legacies of slavery or a brave new world? Labor productivity and remuneration in the Brazilian coffee economy – new microdata evidence from Ibicaba plantation (1890-1950).”

For those arriving here, I am an assistant professor of economic history at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil). A list of my publications and working papers is available at sites.google.com/site/kangtho...

Read our short summary of the paper on @The_EHES Positive Check blog: "To heap or not to heap, that is the question": ehes.org/2024/08/14/t...

My co-author Cheongyeon Won now works at Soongsil University, whose founder is one of the missionaries in our data set: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Starter pack for #econhist: go.bsky.app/U6KyhNv I'm sure I missed some people, so let me know if that's you—or get in touch if I wrongly accused you of being one of us!