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Amanda Gregg

@amandagregg.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Economics at Middlebury College.

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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 9h
Where are the official responses from our professional organizations to the gutting of social science at the NSF?
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Surprised, grateful, and (very) delighted that my article with Anne Ruderman has won the Cole Prize for best article published in the Journal of Economic History last year. Thank you, JEH and EHA! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast - Volume 85 Issue 3
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The audiobook of Wendell Berry's the Unsettling of America read by Nick Offerman is extraordinary. Chapter 2 of the Unsettling of America features a cultural critique of specialization, which I like assigning alongside Smith Book 1 Chapter 1.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I know I'm not alone but it's crazy and troubling to me that the birthright citizenship decision was not unanimous.
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New: Are there truly many, well-paid jobs available for those without a four-year degree? That's the emerging narrative; I looked at the data. Tl:dr: This graph that breaks down occupation by annual wages and the share of workers who hold a four-year degree. www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/23/s...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot, research shows, are 81 times more likely... to develop late vitamin K deficiency bleeding... 1 in every 5 babies with vitamin K deficiency bleeding will die" The tragic costs of the anti-vaccine movement and wellness BS www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My toxic trait is I get impatient in long meetings, so I talk too much, and then the meeting gets longer.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Dealing with these strange little things for my VT farms project.
Definition of a Gore from Wikipedia.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This was fascinating. A favorable trade regime, accounting practices trickling down from larger estates, and technology in the form of the centrifugal cream separator explain the success of Danish butter, not just the famous cooperative creameries.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Nothing cleans my office faster than a long overdue data task.
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Marc Deloof @financialhistory.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My new article in the Economic History Review: I show that Belgian financial elites were far more involved in companies operating in King Leopold’s Congo Free State than in other Belgian firms, challenging the view that these elites had little interest in the Congo Free State.
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Caitlin Myers @caitlinmyers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Undergraduate economists, check out the Williams Pier conference. It's a great opportunity to share your work!
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The Committee on Education of the Economic History Association invites nominations for the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. Anyone can write a nomination letter! Entries due April 22, 2026. The prize includes a $1,200 cash award.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Probably not rational but so far my response to the pressure to use LLMs to "work faster faster faster your'll be left behiiiiind" has been to make all my writing a little rougher. You'll never mistake that my emails, referee reports, recommendation letters, and drafts were composed by a human.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Why is HR everywhere like this? Why not just say, "you have some buttons to click before January?"
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Godammit.
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Rick Hornbeck @rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
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Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Middlebury Department of Economics is seeking a two-year VAP for 2026-28, any field. The would be a great gig: brilliant colleagues (present company excepted), curious students, friendly vibes, gorgeous location. Please apply / spread the word. apply.interfolio.com/177226
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The Committee on Education of the Economic History Association invites nominations for the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. Anyone can write a nomination letter! Entries due April 22, 2026. The prize includes a $1,200 cash award.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Word is, every NSF proposal now has to say something about AI. I guess I might as well make this useful. Which AI tools would you like me to test out and compare on a large data entry task?
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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My economic history syllabus is increasingly "let's read Nobel winners together." I wonder what the ratio of Nobel winners to non-winners is among our course readings. Congratulations to today's winners. I've only met Mokyr, a true original, passionate and energetic, inhumanly erudite.
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 13/10/2025
That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...
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All prizes in economic sciences
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I just looked back at my old tenure self-evaluation while trying to cleanse my palate from writing a million letters for others. I apologize, dear colleagues, for all the adjectives.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Hey all, are there any master's programs for economics (in the US or elsewhere) that offer financial aid or merit scholarships?
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I get so irritated by surveys from textbook publishers that offer gift cards but then I literally can't fill them out because my answer to every question would be "we cannot use any of this awful shit at my LAC," and that's often not an option.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
In my most optimistic fantasy of the end-game of US higher ed, leaner times force colleges and universities to ruthlessly purge their useless grifter work-making admins and recenter on their missions, but in reality I know the managerial class always finds a way to fail up.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Wait, what?
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Cannot fucking *wait* to teach North and Weingast (1989) again.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/04/2025
Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Nothing like hiring a nanny so you can catch up on referee reports to *really* drive home the concept of opportunity cost.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Middlebury's recent round of austerity measures are a blow to our community and come at the exact wrong moment, when we should be preparing to rally together to defend higher education in the US. www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...
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The pragmatic reasons for Middlebury to do the ‘right thing' - The Middlebury Campus
It is no secret that Middlebury underpays its faculty and staff relative to comparable institutions. But have you heard that the benefits are really good? For faculty and staff who joined the college ...
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I made a tiny child last week. Sorry I'm going to be late on everything for a while.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A🧵: In my time in administration, I’ve implored my colleagues to understand that STEM fields were particularly vulnerable to changes in federal research funding policy. Nearly every time, I was met with a cavalier attitude that political headwinds wouldn’t allow drastic changes. 1/N
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’m watching closely for anything happening inside BLS, Census and the other federal statistical agencies. Know something? Reach out — anonymity guaranteed. Signal: bencasselman.96
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
What it looks like right now when you check the status of a pending NSF grant.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hearing that NSF panels are getting canceled today.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
It's been a while since I enjoyed reading a paper as much as Winnie Rothenberg's "The Market and Massachusetts Farmers" (JEH 1981). Fun and clever, and a gift to undergraduate teachers (Gini coefficients! Coefficients of variation! Regressions of hog weights to show the existence of a supply curve!)
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Happy Solstice from Vermont
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My economic history students were stunned today hearing about FDR's hundred days. "How did they do it? Were they all executive orders?" No, kids, our legislature used to be able to pass legislation.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just back from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention in Boston. I wrote up some thoughts on seven years of organizing interdisciplinary panels on the economic history and historical political economy of the region. amandagreggeconomics.com/2024/11/25/l...
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Middlebury Campus this afternoon.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
The Republicans in my life do not care one ounce that Trump is a terrible person. All they care about is that he pulls the right levers when in power. So many smart people I know just do not understand this. You should be worried about the next election.
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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
It was nice while it lasted.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
I want this made into a sticker that I can put on student essays.
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
The head on this tenor banjo I bought today (from the days when every college had a banjo club)
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Amanda Gregg @amandagregg.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Attended an Irish session at St John's Club in Burlington. Summer weather in October.
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