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Find “Japanese” in this chart. Fascinating paper about the role of written technical knowledge in Japan’s rapid industrialization.

Thrilled that this amazing conference on industrial policy is back for a second edition. See CfP 👇. Deadline is September 13.

This does look like a fantastic and very important paper. Not Lost In Translation: How Barbarian Books Laid the Foundation for Japan's Industrial Revoluton - marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

There is a fun video in Japanese (youtube.com/watch?v=pG9mwk…) that just came out explaining the main points of a recently released paper with Reka (Reka Juhasz) and Shogo on the globalization of the Industrial Revolution (nber.org/papers/w32667)

A New Industrialist roundup, featuring posts by Reka Juhasz, Nathan Lane, Liza Tobin, Jake Sullivan, DeLong🖖, Aaron Slodov, anson ⁂, Kelvin Yu, Will Rinehart, @billjaneway, Todd N. Tucker, Bill McKibben, Barry Naughton, Siwen Xiao, and more! noahpinion.blog/p/new-industri…

State-organsed knowledge transfer, centred on improved #education and translation of texts into Japanese, propelled the rapid development of #Japan starting in the 1880s. Reka Juhasz University of British Columbia, David Weinstein Columbia Economics ow.ly/zWh950T6lYY

A Partizan Pénteg Reggel e heti müsora a Draghi jelentéssel foglalkozik. Én a gazdasági részeiröl, Magyari Péter a politikairól beszélt. open.spotify.com/episode/4fvi5P…

I talked with Bianca Lima Estadão 🗞️ about learning from the past and making industrial policy work better for Brazil. estadao.com.br/economia/indus…

The Columbia University New Thinking in Industrial Policy conference is happening tomorrow and Saturday. In-person registration is closed, but here are the livestream links: Day 1 (youtube.com/live/VzdK5dJ_F…), Day 2 (youtube.com/live/O32YQOuog…). Conference page here: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-th…

Economists interested in gender norms typically focus on norms that constrain the behaviour of women. But what about those that constrain men? Ieda Matavelli is spearheading this work on masculinity norms, and she is on the job market this year (iedamatavelli.com). A 🧵

We’re hiring predocs at VSE with a start date of summer 2025. Come work with me on industrial policy and industrialization past and present. Not your thing? A number of my wonderful colleagues are also hiring! Listing is here: economics.ubc.ca/news/pre-docto…