The party of free markets, of Reagan, the intellectual heirs of Milton Friedman, the champions of market forces over big government, and of free enterprise and small business over the jackboots of government intervention.

New preprint with Rafael Leite, Sandro Reia and Paulo Campos

Cumulative Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations

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In which we take an old model of cumulative cultural evolution of mine and see what happens if you add social networks

Agree. Our Share of Night is amazing.

U.S. Bishops’ Chairman on Doctrine Issues Clarification on Just War Theory “When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercis...

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Economic History Review (@echistsocreview.bsky.social)

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Where is that from? Pretty much everything in it is wrong.

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @SubarnaBee @uniGoettingen who works on topics related to education, gender, and political economy

Your regular reminder: NBER WPs are also not open access (any more than a published journal article is).
Still very useful to put a non-paywalled version on your website

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Gunes Asik @METU_ODTU who works on topics including gender and labor, particularly in Turkey

name names

Sounds like someone gave him a a copy of The Road to Wigan Pier

How is it different than having people pay for your book?

This Black History Month, we invite you to explore the rich and complex history of Black travel during legal racial segregation. The Green Book Project serves as an archives and community project. Share your story here: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
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For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.

Worth noting that the @wsj.com has joined with the @nytimes.com and Bellingcat to say that ICE is lying in its description of the shooting of Alex Pretti. The video evidence more and more supports the view that this was a gratuitous execution. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

Good review of Moen and Rodgers Before the Fed eh.net/book_reviews...
The book is an unusual combination of business and macroeconomic history

The Fable of the Allegory: The Wizard of Oz in Economics L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has become popular as a teaching tool in economics. It has been argued that it was written as an allegory of Populist demands for a bimetallic monetary sy...

I know there are more important things going on, but If you happened to see the review of McWilliams History of Money in the Times yesterday, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz was not actually written as a monetary allegory www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Thanks. I look forward to seeing it.

If someone wanted to see at the evidence behind this argument where should they look?

It seems like a book with a lot of interesting stuff, but it is hard too tell what is new or useful.

I also have concerns about making capital accumulation the center of the story about the modern economy rather than productivity improving innovation.

But he appears to see this global process beginning in Europe, which seems too undermine the claims he made about capitalism arising in many parts of the world.

I think Beckert agrees. Islands of capital are not capitalism. Since he defines capitalism as a global process structured by the state. You don't get capitalism until you have states and capitalists working together to make the process of capital accumulation global.

I might include this in my introductory lecture this coming semester.

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The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
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🎙️ New Episode of the Economic and Political History Podcast with Walter Scheidel

We talked about how to rethinking Ancient History

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Pier Paolo Creanza: Factories of Ideas? Big Business and the Golden Age of American Innovation. Areas: Economic History, Labor Economics, and Public Finance. Letter Writers: Leah Boustan (advisor), Ilyana Kuziemko (advisor), Owen Zidar.

Pier Paolo Creanza’s job market paper studies how the Great Merger Wave (1895-1904) shaped American innovation before WW2. www.ppcreanza.com

Do the preindustrial roots of gender inequality lie in exogenous forces or also in human institutions? “Dividing the Spoils: Inheritance Institutions and Gender Inequality before Industrialization” @felixschaff.bsky.social @cepr.org ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬
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