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This post contains related topics and disjointed observations as addenda to “Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence” in cotton...

Blog about economic history & comparative development

British Tariff Protection after 1774: Competition, Innovation, & Misallocation, plus a note on Weaving This is an addendum to a post about the Calico...

The roots of the present Greek crisis lie in the political transformation of the country during the 1980s. (Disclaimer: Although this post is about Greek...

Was there “intensive growth” in Classical Greece and was there something special about its causes ? Was it due to “inclusive...

If Monty Python decided to resdesign Slavic phonology, they might take some inspiration from Polish.

Stream-of-consciousness thoughts about why we say “Semitic” even though the root is “Shem”. And, yes, I know the Hebrew letters in the...

Social norms, institutions, and economic development. (A companion post to “Where do pro-social institutions come from?”)

Blog about economic history & comparative development

A very brief history of Greek diglossia.

Germany experienced little increase in unemployment during the Great Recession, and has found “internal devaluation” relatively easy and...

AKA “Cooperation, cultural evolution & economic development”. Where do ‘good’ or pro-social institutions come from? Why...

The “Hobson-Lenin Thesis”: Inequality, Imperialism, and the First World War In a small section in his new book, Branko Milanovic argues that the...

Did an “invisible blockade” by the United States fatally undermine the Chilean economy under the presidency of Salvador Allende (1970-73)? Did it...

Edward Baptist, the author of The Half Has Never Been Told, has been claiming since the publication of his book that a putative post-Emancipation drop in...

An elaboration on Ricardo Hausmann’s article “The Education Myth” arguing that education is an overrated tool of economic development. This...

My previous post about the political orientation of fascists got a response from Jonah Goldberg, the author of Liberal Fascism. This is my brief response...

{ This post is mostly stringing together my scattered tweets over the past couple of weeks. I’ve had numerous discussions on this subject with Vincent...