Pseudoerasmus

@pseudoerasmus

Economic history, development economics, political economy. I mostly (re)tweet academic papers/blogs/data.

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    Feb 10

    How To Be a History Blogger May interest

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  3. Feb 10

    True but in retrospect one may think a country as poor as India 1950-80 could have grown faster than 1.5% p.a.

    Surely India's growth accelerated after 1991, but you can hardly call 1950-1991 "catastrophic" (1980-81 drought)
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  4. Feb 10

    "More Silliness from the History of Capitalism Folk" 's reaction to the article by Jeff Cowie

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  5. Feb 10

    Economic historians read historians; when it comes the history of capitalism, it's the historians who ignore the economic historians !

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  6. Feb 10

    What crap !!! "[econ historians] don’t like to talk with people in the history dept very much"

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  7. Feb 1

    . challenges Robert Allen on England's high wage economy blogs paper

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    • Amity Shlaes
      @AmityShlaes

      Chair, Coolidge Foundation. Presidential Scholar, The King's College. Books: Coolidge, The Forgotten Man, The Forgotten Man Graphic. At:

    • Mauricio Drelichman
      @MDrelichman

      Associate Professor at the UBC Vancouver School of Economics.

  9. Jan 21

    Simple but unappreciated: you can have yr free market & get a soc.democr welfare state too

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  10. Jan 21

    Krugman's great 1996 defense of equilibrium thinking & methodolog individualism by appeal to mainstream evol biology

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    Jan 20

    Why values change: some theories

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  12. Jan 20

    (SPA) Birth weight & SES. Mentions gen confound but more known about it than article implies

    Importantísimo: Desigualdad desde la cuna: sobre la salud perinatal en España
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  13. Jan 20

    Another table from Barro: note that by Chinese standard the other "middle income successes" rather underwhelming...

    4:00 AM - 20 Jan 2016 · Details
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    Jan 19

    Longbow superior to crossbow but allowed easier rebellions, so only adopted in more internally peaceful England.

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    Jan 19

    Using a historical data,19 countries Bengtsson & Waldenström (2016) Capital Shares and Income Inequality

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  16. Jan 20

    (table tells you how fast China "should" have been growing given other countries at similar level vs how fast it was actually growing.)

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  17. Jan 20

    Robert Barro on econ growth, convergence & China in the long run perspective

    3:44 AM - 20 Jan 2016 · Details
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    Jan 19

    [Economic] Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation - nice survey paper by

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    Jan 12

    "Global Cycles: Flows, , and Sovereign , 1815-2015" Reinhart, Reinhart, and Trebesch

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    Jan 7

    When does centralization dominate decentralization & vice-versa. Very interesting analysis

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    Jan 15

    A fantastic set of speakers for the public choice seminar this semester

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