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4 months

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Mark Koyama

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8 months

Startling "mask off" moment by the editors of history and technology. It seems to read as if what constitutes acceptable historical method is dictated by politics.

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3 years

It is crazy how many TV shows and Movies retread the same historical ground. How many more times do we need to see Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn? There are so many other interesting historical stories? (IMBD has 48 items tagged with Henry! () )

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Browse most popular movies and TV by genre

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Totally agree. Though historians should also study more economics.

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The Political Economy of Dune

My most downloaded academic paper on SSRN is a yet to be published book chapter on the political economy of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Do read it here. As Dune Part II is now on our screens (I write this...

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7 years

Just discovered that Daron Acemoglu has a 570 page book on political economy online! (a collection of his lectures)

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6 years

Syllabus for the Economic History of Religion and State course I'm hopefully going to be teaching in Spring.

Economics of Religion.pdf

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2 years

Extremely pleased with the blurbs for How the World Became Rich @jaredcrubin

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Mark Koyama

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7 years

I just published “Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?”

Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?

This question is prompted by Kingdom of the Wicked, a new book by Helen Dale. Dale forces us to consider Jesus as a religious extremist in…

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7 years

Interesting finding: priming ethnic identity causes cooperation to decline.

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2 years

Excited to announce that Fractured Land, with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, Younong Lin, and Tuan-Hwee Sng has been accepted at the QJE (penultimate version can be download here )

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Do Individuals Matter in Institutional Economic History?

Together with Desiree Desierto, I recently completed a chapter on Institutional Change for the Handbook of New Institutional Economics (SSRN). Institutional analysis typically eschews emphasis on...

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Shipwrecked by Rents - the first empirical study of the Manila Galleon trade - the longest and most dangerous trade route in the premodern world (w. @desireedesierto & @ferarteaga ) or ungated ()

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6 years

@ATabarrok It is rare that one reads something that shocks you about Stalin's Russia but that did

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6 years

The History of Capitalism it seems is not the history of economies & societies under capitalism but the history of the idea of capitalism, largely as seen through its critics. A useful clarification.

Lawrence Glickman

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6 years

Here are some of the texts we’ll be wrestling with in my History of Capitalism grad seminar. ⁦ @andrew_seal ⁩ ⁦ @TheTattooedProf ⁩ ⁦ @HartmanAndrew ⁩

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Mark Koyama

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6 years

I find it bizarre that journalist types have just discovered the term classical liberal. Perhaps the worst example is this terrible piece

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2 months

Here is a link to my post (originally written in 2017) on why there was no Industrial Revolution in the Roman Empire

Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?

A classic post of mine from 2017

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Mark Koyama

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3 months

Why does the Middle East remain illiberal and unfree as a region? I had the honor of discussing @timurkuran 's recent book Freedom Delayed recently (podcast will be available later). Here is a more polished write up of my remarks

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Mark Koyama

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3 years

The book does indeed contain a mind-bogglingly stupid piece of economics (apparently more durable goods will destroy the economy 🤪)

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3 years

I reviewed the new book by Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein for The Guardian. It’s really not good!

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Mark Koyama

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6 years

This is a cool paper on "rewakened" cultural memories. Areas of Austria attacked by Turks in 16-17th c voted more for Right Wing populists once they began campaigning against Turks and Muslim immigrants

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Mark Koyama

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5 years

My piece on Political Economy in Economic History has (finally!) come out

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4 years

Quantitative economic history is valuable even when it confirms rather than overturns the existing historical consensus.

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The “success” of MMT is a indictment of the failure to convey the most basic insights of our discipline: scarcity & trade-offs exist and there is no perpetual money machine

Stephen Williamson

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5 years

1/MMT is somewhat like supply side economics in this respect (remember Arthur Laffer et al.). The right wing adopted it because the liked the conclusions - the prospect of a free lunch. Similar to the appeal of MMT. But with the supply siders, you could figure out what the...

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2 years

Interesting thing about this thread is that amongst all the praise no historian mentions that the book is discredited.

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3 years

My review essay on @WalterScheidel 's Escape from Rome is now in print in the latest issue of the JEL

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Mark Koyama on *How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth* | Mercatus Center

Mark Koyama on *How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth*

Mark Koyama is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and is a senior fellow with the F.A.

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5 years

I will be editing a special issue at JEBO on Institutions, Culture, and Religion in Economic History

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5 years

Favorite new books of the year (in no specific order and had to be published in 2019). 1: Escape from Rome by @WalterScheidel . A landmark study characterized by perhaps the most systematic use of the counterfactual approach in long-run history. 1/n

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Mark Koyama

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2 years

As How the Rich Became Rich hits the bookshelves in the US next month @jaredcrubin and I are releasing powerpoints to accompany it. The first two sets of slides on geography and institutions are up

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Who fact checked this piece? (of course in the Jacobin!) Did no-one read enough of Friedman's wikipedia page to find out he wasn't a "student" of Hayek?

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Mark Koyama

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7 years

@aeonmag essay introduces the main arguments from my forthcoming book w @ndjohnson on origins of religious freedom

The modern state, not ideas, brought about religious freedom | Aeon Essays

Locke, Spinoza and Voltaire were all brilliant, but religious freedom in Europe was driven by statecraft not philosophy

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Mark Koyama

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2 years

Very happy to announce that @desireedesierto and I have been awarded a Templeton Grant @templeton_fdn to study the origins of liberal institutions from the Norman Conquest & Magna Carta to the Reformation & the Glorious Revolution.

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Mark Koyama

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My book chapter on Frank Herbert's Dune (eventually to appear in Fictionomics, edited by Avinash Dixit, Francois Bourguignon, and Jean-Philippe Platteau)

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6 years

Finally got to see the cover design of Persecution and Toleration @ndjohnson .

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6 years

The claim that economists are not interested in causality continues to remain one of the most bizarre statements scholars of one discipline could make about another.

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Mark Koyama

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7 years

I just published “The Counterfactual and the Factual”

The Counterfactual and the Factual

Historians often appear skeptical of counterfactual arguments. E.H. Carr argued that “a historian should never deal in speculation about…

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6 months

Since "degrowth" is appearing in my feed, I recommend this piece on a recent instance of degrowth that doesn't seem to be going that well

Degrowth and the monkey's paw

Notes on Progress are pieces that are a bit too short to run on Works in Progress. You can opt out of Notes here. Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a...

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7 years

@sapinker i.e. a popular but rigorous restatement of Enlightenment universalism that takes opposes atavistic currents riding high on left and right

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6 years

Unified China and Divided Europe - my paper with Tuan-Hwee & Sing, Chiu Yu Ko is now in print in the February issue of International Economic Review (gated - ungated version on my page)

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6 years

This is a fantastic, tour de force, blog post/essay on Chinese economic history by @delong

Why Was the 20th Century Not a Chinese Century?: An Outtake from "Slouching Towards Utopia?: An...

10000 words on why the 20th Century was not a Chinese century. Very few of these belong in a 20th Century history book, alas... ---- Kong Shangren (1699): >White glass from across the Western Seas Is...

www.bradford-delong.com

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Mark Koyama

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2 months

Very excited to find out that How the World Became Rich (w @jaredcrubin ) has sold more than 10k copies in total! @politybooks

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2 years

About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why? via @voxdotcom

About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why?

Two economic historians explain what made the Industrial Revolution, and modern life, possible.

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7 years

I just published “Books of the Year”

Books of the Year

The following 2017 books seized my imagination. I’ve focused on non-fiction here rather than fiction.

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5 years

Very happy to announce that I've been invited to join the @cepr_org as a research fellow in economic history ().

Economics Professor Mark Koyama announced as a Research Fellow

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) announced Professor Mark Koyama as a Research Fellow for Economic History. The CEPR promotes...

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7 years

There are lots of things to criticize in the economics (as in all fields I imagine). But vast majority of popular critiques have huge flaws

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3 years

Looks like the Guardian is taking economics advise from the Emperor Diocletian

The Guardian

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We have a powerful weapon to fight inflation: price controls. It’s time we use it | Isabella Weber

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5 years

First reminder about Fall syllabi so here is the syllabus for my econ history of religion PhD class from Spring

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6 years

A while back it was fashionable on this website to attack Econ 101 - it lacks nuance, makes strong assumptions etc. etc. But think how much easier it would be to make the world better if legislators and voters understood just a fraction of elementary econ.

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6 years

When NYC caps the number of Ubers... Price Cap ($) | \ | / S | \| / P2 | |\ / ↑ | |/\ P1 | /| \D +——|—|—— q2←q1 #rides ...Price rises, and it's harder to get a ride. @emmagf

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3 years

Asked to referee a paper. Agreed despite many other task. Spend 5 mins logging and entering info into Manuscript Center. Then unable to proceed because . . . . wait for it . . .

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Mark Koyama

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3 months

Happy to hear that my piece on the political economy Dune will be appearing alongslide lots of other great chapters in “Economics and Literature: A Novel Approach” edited by JP Platteau, François Bourguignon, Avinash Dixit, Luc Leruth

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Mark Koyama

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6 years

Another paper showing a positive association between ethnic & religious diversity and growth. This time from 19th and early 20th c. Hungary.

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7 years

A great point, worth reiterating. @pseudoerasmus

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1 year

Rare history of thought thread. Reading Jacob Soll's Free Market and I can confirm that his treatment of Adam Smith is astonishingly incompetent.

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8 months

This is the Jeff paper they refer to but very oddly never by name (which is a violation of usual scholarly practice)

The origin of Henry Cort’s iron-rolling process: assessing the evidence

This paper examines the available evidence relating to the disputed origin of Henry Cort’s iron-rolling process. The principal primary sources, reproduced in the Appendix, do not support the conten...

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Mark Koyama

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3 months

Very cool paper tracking geopolitical fragmentation and its effects by Jesus Fernanzdez-Villverde, Tomohide Mineyama and Dongho Song

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6 years

There is lots of cool material in the Diebolt and Haupert piece on economic history. Of particular importance is the call to reintroduce economic history as a core part of PhD training in economics

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6 years

An interesting paper by Steele, Paik, and Tanaka suggests that the threat of peasant rebellions constrained tax rates on the eve of the Meiji Restoration, constraining state growth in early modern Japan.

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Mark Koyama

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2 years

With classes beginning again soon, @jaredcrubin and I have uploaded slides for Chapters 1-9 of How the World Became Rich.

How the World Became Rich - Teaching Materials

Teaching Materials review questions and chapter slides

www.howtheworldbecamerich.com

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6 years

Wow. looking forward to this already. Conversations with Tyler: Daniel Kahneman

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2 years

Yes, GDP is (almost) everything | Financial Times - a point ⁦ @jaredcrubin ⁩ and I also make in How the World Became Rich

Yes, GDP is (almost) everything

The recession should kill off the romantic idea that growth is a mixed blessing

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8 years

I just published “Why did the Roman Economy Decline?”

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6 years

This week's EconTalk on the Great Leap Forward with Frank Dikotter is exceptional good. Both moving and germane, given recent examples of amnesia about really existing socialism @EconTalker

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Mao's Great Famine--Frank Dikotter discusses his book in this week's EconTalk. An extraordinary tragedy:

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5 years

Great (i think new) Paul Romer piece on compounding, innovation, and growth. Ideal for teaching purposes.

Economic Growth - Econlib

Compound Rates of Growth In the modern version of an old legend, an investment banker asks to be paid by placing one penny on the first square of a chessboard, two pennies on the second square, four...

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Mark Koyama

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2 years

First time teaching from How the World Became Rich next week. Here is the course syllabi (for undergrads)

Econ_365_Topics_in_Economic_History_Fall_22.tex

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5 years

There is no pure, atheoretical, empiricism. Historians can’t escape having some (albeit informal or adhoc) theory.

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9 months

Breaking my rule about posting about current events. But the imagines of hostages raped and burned alive and piles of incinerated babies are impossible to unsee. Absolutely horrifying, scarring, and evil.

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6 years

My paper with Chiaki Moriguchi and Tuan-Hwee Sng on East Asian's Divergence in State Capacity after 1850 is now online at JEBO. and

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Mark Koyama

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6 years

Run out of time to do a "best books" list like I did last year (). But here is a list of new books which stand out in my memory as particularly worthwhile/noteworthy in no particular order.

Books of the Year

The following 2017 books seized my imagination. I’ve focused on non-fiction here rather than fiction.

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Just rearranged the English history book shelf

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6 years

Very interesting paper by Lowes & Montero on an important negative legacy of colonialism in French Africa: mistrust in modern medicine.

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One weird omission in the attempts to link the Enlightenment to the invention of racism is that I've seen almost no mention of the Spanish Inquisition. I assumed it was well known that the Inquisition developed the idea of Jewish blood.

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6 years

At the very least, it is very hard to see classical liberalism as the driving force behind colonialism (greed and ambition are pretty much sufficient) and very easy to imagine a much more brutal imperialism absent the influence of classical liberalism.

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3 years

1. A Game of Thrones style epic set amidst the successor wars following the death of Alexander the Great. Antigonus the One Eye would be a fantastic anti-hero.

Antigonus I Monophthalmus - Wikipedia

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4 years

Excited about my joint new paper with Jesus Fernandez- Villaverde, Youhong Lin, and Tuan-Hwee Sng. The working paper is finally out

The Fractured-Land Hypothesis

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5 years

The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism

Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is…

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I had a great time this Spring teaching a senior seminar in Politics, Philosophy and Economics - basically as 20th century economic history.

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5 years

Officially out on today!

Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom (Cambridge Studies in Economics,...

Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value,...

www.amazon.com

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My critical piece on Yoram Hazony's The Virtue of Nationalism at Liberal Currents

A Nationalism Untethered to History

With a breezy preface that approvingly references recent political developments in America and Britain, Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of Nationalism offers a defense of the nation state. Now, there is a...

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My review essay on @WalterScheidel 's Escape from Rome (will be published in the JEL).

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How Japan avoided the middle income trap. Of particular interest to @pseudoerasmus perhaps

The Middle Income Trap

Development State Evolving: Japan’s Graduation from a Middle Income Country By Tetsuji Okazaki (University of Tokyo) Abstract: This paper reexamines the industrial policy in postwar Japan from pers…

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6 years

Right now I can't think of a more overrated book that Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation.

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This is very much in line with the @Peter_Turchin & @jgoldsto theory of revolutions and unrest - before the English civil war there were a record number of underemployed and dissastified Oxbridge grads around.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Thesis: Systems are brought down not by disaffected masses, but by disaffected elites. That English major from Westchester on her third unpaid internship? That city-level Communist Party official cut off from his real estate kickbacks? Those are the ones you should fear.

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Economists have never "ignored inequality". The question has always been how much weight/attention to give to inequality versus other issues such as economic growth (say as a means of poverty alleviation). 1/n

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Economists have "more or less" solved this problem by posting their papers on their websites and with publically available working papers. There needs to be social pressure on everyone else to follow suit.

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academic publishing is broken

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My latest post is a review of Geoffrey Hodgson's new book "The Wealth of a Nation" (link below)

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Persecution & Toleration @ndjohnson now available for preorder on Amazon (link for those in the US) and for those in the UK

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Amazon's recommendations are really on point right now

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Economic consequences of revolutions | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

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New paper with @desireedesierto : The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Premodern Europe.

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Ignore the conspiracy theories. This by V & E Ostrom provides insight into the intellectual origins of Public Choice

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Quite possibly the most bizarre econ tweet I can recall seeing.

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Very pleased to see this in print (and that it is open access)

The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe | The Journal...

The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe - Volume 84 Issue 2

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New paper on why Meiji Japan was able to modernize after 1850 but Qing China was unable to

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Extremely excited that my paper with @desireedesierto & @ferarteaga "Shipwrecked by Rents" has been accepted at the Journal of Development Economics! Working paper version available here

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This is a great piece on "degrowth" economics . . . it turns out no growth makes it harder to easier to attain progressive goals (a point Jared and I also make in How the World Became Rich)

Degrowth and the monkey's paw

Notes on Progress are pieces that are a bit too short to run on Works in Progress. You can opt out of Notes here. Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a...

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Mixed feeling about this as author but I guess seeing your book in a used book store is a sign of success? ( @jaredcrubin )

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N.1 new release in Econ (perhaps briefly!)

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Extremely pleased that my paper with Jean-Paul Carvalho and Cole Williams "Resisting Education" is forthcoming in JEEA (latest working paper version available at )

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2. Sulla versus Marius. Screenplay could draw on Colleen McCullough's popular First Man in Rome Series

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I've been reading Kume Kunitake's account of his visit to the West in 1871 (as part of the Iwakura Embassy). His reflections on London are particularly good.

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On the basis of this episode of EconTalk I'm now reading Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine @EconTalker . Truly horrific and massively unstudied and underappreciated in the west.

Mark Koyama

@MarkKoyama

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This week's EconTalk on the Great Leap Forward with Frank Dikotter is exceptional good. Both moving and germane, given recent examples of amnesia about really existing socialism @EconTalker

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