New Substack post up... (and a review of How Global Currencies Work) "Amidst recent speculations on the US dollar's status as world's reserve, it is the history of currency rises and falls that offers a reasonable conceptual framework to ponder on the future." open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

Read and subscribe to Prose on the Rocks (aka my Substack) open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

New Substack post up... (and a review of How Global Currencies Work) "Amidst recent speculations on the US dollar's status as world's reserve, it is the history of currency rises and falls that offers a reasonable conceptual framework to ponder on the future." open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

I was reading @johncassidysays.bsky.social "Capitalism and its critics". Highly recommend. Very well written, easy to read, well-informed. Goes from Adam Smith to Piketty.

When you know it’s not so: “One would be forgiven for concluding that anything that could be said about that difficult [Soviet] period has already been said and multiple times over.” READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...

There are few surprises in this book. One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️

There are few surprises in this book. One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️

New Substack! Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan. Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin" FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...

New Substack! Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan. Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin" FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...

From the Substack open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

The "transition" period had a major destructive impact on the societies / economies of the small post-socialist economies. Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s... data: @OurWorldInData Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com

The "transition" period had a major destructive impact on the societies / economies of the small post-socialist economies. Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s... data: @OurWorldInData Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com

The glorious mount Ararat at dawn and sunset… the history the identity the eternal hope

In this latest podcast we touch on complex problems of the state of the field of economics and what it actually means to be an economist… No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...

"one thing is clear -- #commodities prices will continue in their volatility..." but what of #development? open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

From the Substack open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇

"[Econ History and History of Econ orient] an economist on a vast landscape of [...] problems not as some always random phenomena but as something that systemically evolves through the complexity of social interactions and policy decisions over time."

"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago... The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists. proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago... The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists. proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...

"one thing is clear -- #commodities prices will continue in their volatility..." but what of #development? open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

In this latest podcast we touch on complex problems of the state of the field of economics and what it actually means to be an economist… No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...

So, what is your strategy to reviewing such a paper for a leading journal in your field?

The big conversation - taking place now at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - discussing demographics, development, inequality, perceptions in / of #China with @brankomilan.bsky.social @janetgornick.bsky.social & others on the panel.

Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development? Read: open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

Inequalities in new capitalism.

Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development? Read: open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

"one thing is clear -- commodities prices will continue in their volatility" - new Substack proseontherocks.substack.com/p/commoditie...

HOT OFF THE PRESS! My review of Sebouh Aslanian's "Early Modernity and Mobility" .... with a strong flavor of #diaspora topic: from history to today across #Eurasia! Follow the link below for free access and spread the word! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WN2AF... FYU @yalepress.bsky.social

HOT OFF THE PRESS! My review of Sebouh Aslanian's "Early Modernity and Mobility" .... with a strong flavor of #diaspora topic: from history to today across #Eurasia! Follow the link below for free access and spread the word! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WN2AF... FYU @yalepress.bsky.social

Among economic reasons, Germany’s hyperinflation of the 1920s was a key factor leading to all the horror that would follow in the subsequent two decades… (economics matters & reading JM Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace mattered even more at the time)… [a flea market catch]

Clark, C. M. and A.V. Gevorkyan. 2020. Artificial Intelligence and Human Flourishing. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. Vol. 79(4): 1307-1344 doi.org/10.1111/ajes...

With Tarron Khemraj we explain how balancing gold holdings in a central bank reserves is a policy choice, especially in the context of maintaining a competitive exchange rate or currency stability for some emerging markets. Read / cite and share, plz: doi.org/10.1080/1540...

Today's substack is on diaspora bond's (Ireland was first): some history, some econ development, and a lot of caution... READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/on-diaspor...

The lack of attention by fast print academic publishers to details, in this case a map, though minor, almost devalues the entire research effort… Unorthodox spellings aside, Armenia and Georgia swapping places on this map is a new mystic twist in the Caucasus cartography….

"Yes, they were all socialist but they were very different socialist economies,..." new substack proseontherocks.substack.com/p/was-there-...

"Yes, they were all socialist but they were very different socialist economies,..." new substack proseontherocks.substack.com/p/was-there-...

My new substack - reading 'Behind the Iron Curtain' --- "History is annoying in how it uncovers inconvenient realities of the past. " @springernature.com @springer.springernature.com proseontherocks.substack.com/p/was-there-...

My new substack - reading 'Behind the Iron Curtain' --- "History is annoying in how it uncovers inconvenient realities of the past. " @springernature.com @springer.springernature.com proseontherocks.substack.com/p/was-there-...

Someone 'asked' #AI to create a podcast summarizing one of my earlier (co-authored) articles on... AI ))) It actually turned out quite nicely, so take a list here if prefer to avoid reading much text (link to the original article in comments): drive.google.com/file/d/161zT...

NEW! With Samar Issa we construct a Lebanese #diaspora survey to explore the inner motivation on diaspora-homeland engagement. Read it via Review of Dev Econ. Please share and cite! doi.org/10.1111/rode...

Friday challenge: Hegel’s dialectic - a nice read/summary contrasting formal logic with dialectics. open.substack.com/pub/colinbod...

Some relfections (last year’s and yet still hold) on the dialectics of small post-socialist economy; few localized / some general for all… proseontherocks.substack.com/p/indifference

NEW! With Samar Issa we construct a Lebanese #diaspora survey to explore the inner motivation on diaspora-homeland engagement. Read it via Review of Dev Econ. Please share and cite! doi.org/10.1111/rode...

We are back in the #gold market world...gold is doing what gold does in times of uncertainty and volatility, as central banks are adding the metal to their international reserves portfolios. This makes sense beyond some intuitive general reactions... www.ft.com/content/0d17...

A follow up to our June 11th webinar on diaspora bonds in Guyana open.substack.com/pub/proseont...

We are back in the #gold market world...gold is doing what gold does in times of uncertainty and volatility, as central banks are adding the metal to their international reserves portfolios. This makes sense beyond some intuitive general reactions... www.ft.com/content/0d17...

Today's substack is on diaspora bond's (Ireland was first): some history, some econ development, and a lot of caution... READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/on-diaspor...

How History Matters in Post-Socialist Economies, still part 1 "Though it has been suggested that ‘The Beatles Rocked the Kremlin’ it was “Wind of Change” by Scorpions in the early 1991 that captured the minds of the new generation of CEE and the FSU." proseontherocks.substack.com/p/how-histor...

There's a new book out, read it! @brankomilan.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...