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New substack: part one of the political economy of European castles
www.markkoyama.com/publish/post...
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"The Bones of the Kingdom" (Part 1)
Baronial castles in medieval Europe
https://www.markkoyama.com/publish/post/191292636?r=1149f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
1 day ago
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Charles de Dampierre
25 days ago
How can we study human development over two thousand years? For most periods and regions, we lack reliable data on income, health, or education. Before 1800, and outside Europe, historical records are extremely fragmentary. Thread π π§΅
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Guest post by Jack Goldstone!!
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Jack Goldstone: Is the Great Divergence Debate really over?
A Guest Post
https://open.substack.com/pub/markkoyama/p/jack-goldstone-is-the-great-divergence?r=1149f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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Antonio (out for lent)
3 months ago
A great piece from
@markkoyama.bsky.social
(2018) on the perceived direct connections of modern racism to Enlightenment thought that paints a vivid picture and places it within the romanticist, nationalist tradition. While charting its history from antiquity.
www.liberalcurrents.com/did-the-enli...
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Did the Enlightenment Give Rise to Racism?
Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie set off a heated online debate with a series of tweets[1] claiming βthe concept of race was birthed by the Enlightenment,β[2] which then sparked a ful...
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/did-the-enlightenment-give-rise-to-racism/
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The Political Power of Civil Society
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The Political Power of Civil Society
Or why protests alone usually don't bring down autocratic regimes
https://open.substack.com/pub/markkoyama/p/the-political-power-of-civil-society?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer
about 2 months ago
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The Laissez-Faire Experiment by W. Walker Hanlon
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The Laissez-Faire Experiment by W. Walker Hanlon
A longer version of my book review
https://www.markkoyama.com/p/the-laissez-faire-experiment-by-w?r=1149f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
5 months ago
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reposted by
Romain Wacziarg
7 months ago
The August 2025 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now published (
academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...
). It consists of 10 fantastic papers from a wide range of fields of economics.
@jeeanews.bsky.social
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a very interesting piece on the Ukrainian Famine
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
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New Substack post on Thomas Cromwell's portrayal in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
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Thoughts on the Mirror and the Light and the Tudor Revolution in Government
I've just finished watching the second season of Wolf Hall, The Mirror and the Light, adapted from Hillary Mantel's 2020 novel of the same name.
https://open.substack.com/pub/markkoyama/p/thoughts-on-the-mirror-and-the-light?r=1149f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
8 months ago
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Very happy to see our chapter (with Desiree Desierto) on Institutional Change in updated edition of the Handbook of New Institutional Economics
link.springer.com/referencewor...
(open access).
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Handbook of New Institutional Economics
This Open Access Handbook provides a timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in new institutional economics.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-50810-3
about 1 year ago
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The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru
www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-arm-of...
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The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru
Our project on the effects of forced labor in colonial Peru began years ago, when I, Leticia, was still a graduate student.
https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-arm-of-history-is-long-but-not?r=1149f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Jacob Edenhofer
about 1 year ago
This looks great
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Handbook of New Institutional Economics
This Open Access Handbook provides a timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in new institutional economics.
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-031-50810-3
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reposted by
Dr. Alexandra βAliβ Cirone
about 1 year ago
New Broadstreet post up! Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders!
@ricarthuguet.bsky.social
@jackpaine.bsky.social
and Christy Qiu
www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...
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African Borders: Neither Random Nor Decided at the Berlin Conference
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African Borders: Neither Random Nor Decided at the Berlin Conference
By Jack Paine (Emory University), Xiaoyan Qiu (Washington University in St. Louis) and Joan Ricart-Huguet (Loyola University Maryland
https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-borders-neither-random-nor?r=1149f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 1 year ago
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reposted by
Dr. Alexandra βAliβ Cirone
about 1 year ago
New Broadstreet post is up! By
@markkoyama.bsky.social
www.broadstreet.blog/p/feudalism-...
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reposted by
Guillaume Blanc
about 1 year ago
π¨ Announcement - Hajnal Lecture 2025 π¨ "The Origins of Constitutional Government" by
@markkoyama.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 from 4 to 5:30 pm Arthur Lewis Lab, University of Manchester And no need to register to come to the lecture!
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reposted by
Tom Barson
about 1 year ago
Almost too good to be true: a wide-ranging review in JEL (by its former editor
@durlauf.bsky.social
) of the two great recent books in econ history:
@delong.social
's "Slouching" and
@markkoyama.bsky.social
and
@jaredcrubin.com
's "How the World Became Rich". Dig in!
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AEA Web - Journal of Economic Literature - 63(1):288 - Abstract
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jel.20231724
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reposted by
Louis Johnston
about 1 year ago
A thoughtful and insightful review of
@durlauf.bsky.social
How the World Became Rich by
@markkoyama.bsky.social
.social and
@jaredcrubin.com
and Slouching Towards Utopia by
@delong.social
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong: A Review Essay
(March 2025) - This essay reviews two recent books on economic growth: Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin's How the World Became Rich and J. Bradford DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia. Both books offer rich ...
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20231724
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