Showing posts with label Economic History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic History. Show all posts
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Effective Habits of Ernest Gellner - 'cold intellectual honesty'

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A review of another Gellner biography ; In common with so many other émigrés, Gellner served in the war (in his case in a Czechoslovak arm...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Book Recommendation

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In an essay in his just-published Natural Experiments of History , Jared Diamond puts the question the way you want it to be asked – compara...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Book Recommendation

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The Street Porter and the Philosopher; Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy, editors Include essays ...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Podcasts

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The Black Death ; In October 1347, a Genoese trading ship arrived at the busy port of Messina in Sicily. Readying to dock, it would have nos...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

Books to Pre-Order

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Sea of Poppies: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Branding

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Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution ; In medieval Europe, manufacturers sold durable goods to anonymous consumers in distant market...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

The industrial revolution and the democratic transition

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The industrial revolution and the democratic transition . -- Aubhik Khan In the 19th century, the United Kingdom began a period of economic ...
Friday, May 9, 2008

Enter the Dragon: Understanding the History and Future of Chinese Development

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Dr. Christopher Lingle Visiting Professor Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok Napoleon once referred to China as the "Sleeping Dragon,...
Monday, May 5, 2008

Economic History Talk of the Day

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John Nye on Wine, War and Trade

The Enclosures in Brittain

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In the early 19th century, the Northamptonshire poet John Clare took a good look at the countryside and didn’t like what he saw. He wrote: ...
Friday, May 2, 2008

Econ Talks

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Robert Solow on Low Wage Workers in Rich Countries Bernstein on the History of Trade McCormick Says Buy Dollar Versus Pound, Australia Dolla...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Econ Talks

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Author Weinberg Says Rockefeller Was No `Robber Baron' Bernstein on the History of Trade Will God - or Man - Play Dice with Nature?
Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Memo to Self

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Summer Institute for the Preservation of the Study of the History of Economics - July 2008 Some picks; Case Studies at the World Bank Michel...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

Assorted

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How I blew my money on the wrong video discs Taking a hard line on rewriting the bankruptcy code Why It’s Hard to Map Media Coverage Jeff Sa...
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Random Economist- M. Ali Khan

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M. Ali Khan from John Hopkins; I continue to pursue interests in economic interaction, as formalized in general equilibrium theory: models...
Friday, April 4, 2008

When US was an emerging market

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Three different statistical procedures for measuring average share price appreciation tell about the same story. NYSE shares rose little in...
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Which Nobel Laureate was rejected by The Economist magazine?

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Arthur Lewis . The Economist (around 1937) gave the following reason; They said that they could not hire a black journalist since he would ...

Expensive Economics Books on Amazon

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Economic Survey 1919-1939 (Routledge Library Editions-Economics, 57) by W. Arthur Lewis Price: 220 dollars
Saturday, March 29, 2008

Was League of Nations better than IMF?

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Rogoff and Reinhart's forthcoming book is a real gem- This Time Is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight Centuries of Financial Crises . ...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Hamilton vs Jefferson

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From the recent Obama speech ; In a city of landmarks, we meet at Cooper Union, just uptown from Federal Hall, where George Washington took ...
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