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We think of wood as a highly perishable material, but if it is kept dry, it can last for a very long time. This roof, in numinous little Newport Cathedral, is over 600 years old: it was already here when Constantinople fell and Columbus landed in America.

In April, a brilliant book on the U.S. Great Depression will be published: George Selgin 's False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947. If you want to understand money and unemployment, the gold standard and the New Deal, read it. I write about it in my

A long-term project I have is to draft a "GMU Price Theory" textbook. I thus started coding all my notes on key articles (with the kind assistance of ChatGPT). I start with the Stigler's Detection of Secret Price-Cutting in a Collusive Agreement. For everyone to use.

It’s the Economic History Society 99th birthday bash this weekend … we have a pretty nice program for it ;) ehs.org.uk/conference/202…

How economic historians do counterfactuals:

Sense ! (of course… An economic historian!)

The Paris School of Economics Stone center on Global Wealth Dynamics is offering fully-funded PhD fellowships for students working on inequality. Deadline May 4. Details and applications here 👇👇👇 stone-center-pse.eu/grants/phd-fel…

Interested in moving to Italy? The call for Marie Curie fellowships is now open! I'd be happy to supervise DSE UniBo Economics in economic history / historical political economy. Contact me with your CV and project idea if you are interested in applying!

What other ancient texts might technology enable us to read? Read the full story in Works In Progress worksinprogress.co/issue/doom-scr…

Great op! Economic History Society

Thrilled to co-organise the first ever LSE-PSE joint Economic History Workshop which will take place soon (29-30th of April) at PSE with an amazing lineup of LSE Department of Economic History and Paris School of Economics students and staff: #econhistory #econtwitter

Greg Clark's economic history course lectures are apparently just hanging out on YouTube. The internet is still really cool. youtu.be/6XmLBpfsovE?si…

This is, in fact, a misunderstanding. Many Austrian economists tend to associate statistics and econometrics with central planning. These tools are indeed commonly used by planners — but this reflects correlation rather than causation. The tools themselves attract those inclined

What can we know about useful knowledge and its transfer from a forgotten Indian technique of painting with indigo? Reconstruction shows that transfer of useful knowledge is environmentally determined, nothing to do with the exceptionalism (or otherwise) of the adopting culture.

We congratulate the winner of this year's EHS Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, presented at the annual conference to Louis Henderson (Oxford) for their thesis, ‘Innocence and experience: Early childhood education and industrialisation in England and Wales, 1767-1876’.

🌸 Our Spring 2025 #econhist webinar series continues! 📚 Great papers, sharp comments & lively discussions 🗓️ Every Thursday at 5PM CET Don’t miss it ! 🚀

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Every word! Wanting to get to work or see friends and family is not a crime! Listen & learn Lambeth !

We have a big opening at The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Have we underestimated the ways in which male devotion actually advances gender equality? Yet today, many men in East Asia, Latin America & more globally are saying “do I actually want that responsibility?” Thank you so much to Ross Douthat for this wonderful conversation!

Hence, if you like what I do and can afford it, please make a donation at: paypal.com/donate/?busine…. And if you want to pay me to investigate a study or methodology that you suspect is problematic, my DMs are open. Even if you can’t pay me, I would still be interested! 19/20