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Bradley A. Hansen's Blog
14.04.2024
This week the Washington Post ran an article declaring High interest rates, rising inflation: The economy still isn’t normal . But what ...
07.04.2024
Christine Exley graduated from UMW in 2009. She went on to earn a Ph. D. in economics from Stanford University. She taught for several ye...
06.04.2024
Sierra Latham graduated from UMW in 2009. Since then she has earned masters degrees as Georgetown University and University of Chicago, w...
05.04.2024
Alli graduated in 2018 and is currently an assistant manager at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City. Here is a recent article she co...
31.03.2024
Paul Rhode has an important new paper in the January issue of Explorations in Economic History (" What fraction of antebellum US national ...
29.03.2024
I recently listened to Rick Hornbeck on the Chicago Booth Review Podcast in the episode An Economist Debunks Gone With the Wind Its kind ...
24.03.2024
I got an email notification last week for a new episode of Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire podcast asking Is There a Catholic Antidote to t...
22.03.2024
Planet Money has a nice story about rum production ( The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum ) in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, parti...
21.01.2024
This is from The New York Times article Why Big Banks (and Some Odd Allies) Oppose a Plan to Protect Banks : “Regulators are calling fo...
01.11.2023
I was listening to a recent episode of Hidden Brain the other day about anomalies, specifically things that are supposedly anomalies in e...
09.09.2023
Anton Howes recently asked Does History Have a Replication Crisis ? The question is one that Howes has been concerned with for some time...
28.08.2023
Some have not yet been updated for the current academic year. Let me know of any that should be added. Yale Economic History Workshop Harv...
23.08.2023
I recently listened to an episode of the Podcast Word on Fire in which Bishop Robert Barron and Brandon Vogt discussed Why Liberal Arts M...
06.07.2023
Tianyi Wang, “Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin” American Economic Review VOL. 111, NO. 9, SEPTEMBE...
26.06.2023
The best news in podcasting is that my favorite podcast, The Economic History Podcast , is back after more than a year. In a new episode, S...
28.04.2023
One of the things that Gary Hoover talked to Kennedy Owen about in in this video was the things that an economics major prepares students ...
27.04.2023
Kennedy Owen produces interviews at a pretty rapid pace. She has posted several new ones since I blogged about Time to Speak Econ a few day...
23.04.2023
I finally finished grading and had a chance to read a bit more of Levy’s Ages of American Capitalism . I finished the Age of Capital but...
The following excerpt is from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia prepared by Silvanus Jackson Quinn for the Common Cou...
Yes, NBER charges for downloads of working papers, but you can watch some recent meetings for free. By the way, it has also been my experi...
If you want to get some idea of what's new in economic history check out the program for the NBER Development of the American Economy Progr...
Everyday Economic Justice: Mediating Small Claims in Mexico City, 1813–1863 Louise E. Walker Abstract This article examines economi...
I received an email yesterday from Kennedy Owen, who is currently a junior in high school, telling me about Time to Speak on Econ a series...
This post was prompted by the most recent episode of Hidden Brain Putting Our Assumptions to the Test in which Shankar Vedantam talked...
Hagley Prize The prize is awarded jointly by the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference to the best book in busin...
There are many good books on various aspects of the history of credit: Rowena Olegario’s A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust and Transpar...
1. Was Fogel wrong? Hornbeck, Richard, and Martin Rotemberg. Railroads, reallocation, and the rise of American manufact...
This is the second post related to Sharon Ann Murphy’s recent paper "The Financialization of Slavery by the First and Second Banks of th...
Last week I wrote some thoughts about Jonathan Levy’s new book Ages of American Capitalism . My copy of the book arrived, but I have bee...
I have pre-ordered a copy of Ages of American Capitalism : A History of the United States but it does not ship until the 20 th . Co...
This post was prompted by Sharon Ann Murphy’s recent publication of "The Financialization of Slavery by the First and Second Banks of th...
This post was prompted by a new paper that Fohlin and Lu have on the Panic of 1907 in the most recent AEA Papers and Proceedings, “ How Co...
There is a new working paper by Mark Stelzner and Sven Beckert The Contribution of Enslaved Workers to Output and Growth in the Antebell...
The video of Historians and Economic Historians in Conversation from Economics for Inclusive Prosperity is now available. The conversat...
Guy Raz has been doing the How I Built This podcast for a while, but I only recently started listening to it. On each episode he talks ...
Podcasts for people who want to hear economists talk about their work The Economic History Podcast Sean Kenny interviews economic hist...
The latest issue of Economic History Review has a nice review of our book by Rowena Olegario. Here is the beginning Here is the review...
This a the blog version of a tweet thread from earlier today. It was prompted by tweets by Florian Ederer listing the classic texts he had n...
This is the second post on the podcast How I Built This and academic research on business history and entrepreneurship. Danny Meyer...
This post was prompted by some things I have seen on the internet lately (especially Twitter) about economic models. Specifically, I a...