Pseudoerasmus

@pseudoerasmus

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

Joined August 2011

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

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

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

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    • @AmityShlaes

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

    • @MDrelichman

      Associate Professor at the UBC Vancouver School of Economics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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