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Ha-Joong Chang: the world is not flat
No surprise really here, but it is fun and it shows how economic history affects everyday life … more »
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Insiders and Outsiders
vashna wrote 3 weeks ago: Bill Freund: Insiders and Outsiders Introduction and Chapter One … more »
Economist likes sociologist's book - Shocker
ronanlyons wrote 3 weeks ago: As everyone knows, economists and sociologists are the faculty equivalent of cats and dogs. As an ec … more »
Inside Volcker's Mind: on market functioning
Dirk wrote 3 weeks ago: The following is an excerpt from an interview with Paul Volcker in 2000, Chairman of the Board of Go … more »
Deutschland AG - 1996 vs 2002
Dirk wrote 4 weeks ago: The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Cologne (Köln) has developed some interesting graphics on Germany … more »
Transport costs on the rise: potential impact on global trade?
Dirk wrote 1 month ago: Transport costs are on the rise, according to Jeff Rubin and Benjamin Tal (Will Soaring Transport Co … more »
Please, can somebody help me with information?
jensn wrote 1 month ago: Can somebody help me with information clarifying the sources/links to the book or extracts from it … more »
Quo vadis, oil price?
Dirk wrote 1 month ago: Despite the stupid grammatical construction in the title, this is a serious discussion of what peopl … more »
The equity premium puzzle
Dirk wrote 1 month ago: Recent research has stressed the fact that equity returns are consistently higher than bond returns … more »
Europe has to choose to prevent a war
jensn wrote 1 month ago: Who are able to choose between two bad things: 1. A tighter rule of Western values as we have had th … more »
The great sentence
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Allison wrote 2 months ago: I’m taking an economic history course focused on Karl Polanyi, especially The Great Transforma … more »
On Malthusian Theory of Population
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Alex M Thomas wrote 2 months ago: This post revisits ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’ written by Thomas Malthus in 1798. … more »
Exchange rate bubbles and macro shocks
Dirk wrote 2 months ago: Rudi Dornbusch in his 1985 classic Dollars, Debts, and Deficits reminds us why exchange rate bubbles … more »
Economics Education: The Indian Context
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Alex M Thomas wrote 2 months ago: Economics is viewed in most schools, colleges (Management institutes as well) and universities as a … more »
Goldstone J. A. (1998) The Problem of the 'Early Modern’ World'
Ben wrote 2 months ago: Goldstone Jack A. (199 “The Problem of the ‘Early Modern’ World”, Journal of the Economic a … more »
Europe On Its Way To Dark Ages
jensn wrote 2 months ago: Europe shall be darkened – the political leaders have sold their souls to the oil produc … more »
Margin calls in 1929
Dirk wrote 3 months ago: The Great Cra$h 1929 is a book by J.K. Galbraith, written more than half a century ago in 1954. I re … more »
Seasons and history
Ben wrote 3 months ago: This is my first post dedicated to… well… me. I’ll try not to bother too often with those, … more »
Epstein S. R. (2000) The late medieval integration crisis
Ben wrote 3 months ago: Epstein Stephen R. (2000) “The late medieval crisis as “integration crisis’” in idem Freedom … more »
T.B.T.F.
Dirk wrote 3 months ago: The New Yorker, oddly enough, recalls the history of too big too fail (T.B.T.F.): In 1984, Continent … more »
