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Insiders and Outsiders

vashna wrote 3 weeks ago: Bill Freund: Insiders and Outsiders Introduction and Chapter One … more »

Tags: Indenture in Colonial Natal, General History of Indenture, Natal, India, passenger Indians, merchant Indians, Indian Women, durban, History

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 »

Tags: Books, Reviews, Book Review, Economics

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 »

Tags: Macro, US

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 »

Tags: Germany, Macro

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 »

Tags: Trade and FDI, development, New Economic Geography

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 »

Tags: Economics, Economics Statistics, Monetary issues, Monetary subjects, New-Merkantilism, Research

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 »

Tags: european union, US

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 »

Tags: Macro

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 »

Tags: Alliances, crimes, Demographics, Economics, emigration, Eurabia, Euro, European Integration, History

The great sentence1 comment

Allison wrote 2 months ago: I’m taking an economic history course focused on Karl Polanyi, especially The Great Transforma … more »

Tags: Student Life

On Malthusian Theory of Population5 comments

Alex M Thomas wrote 2 months ago: This post revisits ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’ written by Thomas Malthus in 1798. … more »

Tags: Classical Political Economy, Economic Thought, Economics, Economics Education/Teaching, Education, Political Economy, thomas malthus

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 »

Tags: Macro

Economics Education: The Indian Context8 comments

Alex M Thomas wrote 2 months ago: Economics is viewed in most schools, colleges (Management institutes as well) and universities as a … more »

Tags: Economic Philosophy, Economics, Economics Education/Teaching, India, Paul Feyerabend, thomas malthus, Thought Experiment

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 »

Tags: america, Asia, early modern period, Europe, Reading Notes, Energy, Modernity, Theory, World History

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 »

Tags: Alliances, Demographics, Dollar, emigration, Eurabia, Euro, European Integration, Globalization, Ideology contra Reality

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 »

Tags: Macro, US, Great Depression

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 »

Tags: early modern period, Middle Age, Europe, Asia, Personal Stuff, Season

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 »

Tags: Middle Age, Europe, Reading Notes, Crisis, 1400s, Smithian growth, Plague

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 »

Tags: Macro, development, US


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