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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't suppose anyone asked him why he doesn't make it happen. He'd be on firmer legal ground with embargos. To be clear, not saying he should. Just wondering why he doesn't

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He came and presented a paper when I was a graduate student at Wash U. I don't remember what he presented. I do remember that he tried to talk to every student doing history about their research.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Does Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf get some attention too?

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What he actually won was $997m. He could have instead taken 30 annual payments that added up to $2.04b. Don't disagree with the point about taxing billionaires, just pointing out that they always lie about how much people win in lotteries.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.

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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thanks. The conference was everything I like about business history: enthusiastic audiences interested in a wide variety of topics, disciplines, and methods. And the organizer did an incredible job.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I thought Becker believed that the subject was "the allocation of scarce means to satisfy competing ends," that this covered every type of human choice, and that the tools that economists had developed to study markets could be usefully employed in non-market settings

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Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good essay but the instinct to blame capitalism alone is strange given the disastrous communist famines of the Holodomor and Great Leap Forward. The problem is more general than capitalism. In any case, food inflation is bad but famine is less likely today than 50 or 100 years ago.

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I regret to inform you that JD Vance has gotten another thing wrong about economics (and economists): www.cato.org/blog/jd-vanc...

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Noel Johnson @ndjohnson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I really enjoyed spending the last 30 minutes figuring out that in order to submit my paper to an Elsevier journal, the MS can be pdf, but the separate title page cannot be a pdf, but must be either a Word file or sent to them by post as cuneiform tablets.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Relative to the 1st I was a little disappointed in the 2nd but he nailed the landing in the 3rd

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Personally, I would suggest trying to see if someone on the faculty of law at UVIC with expertise in intellectual property rights would talk to you about the situation first.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Showing copying of the form of expression seems difficult. One is an academic history. The other is a comic book, composed of drawings and dialog, which Walden had to make up. In her webpage Walden makes clear that although influenced by the sources she was not bound by them like a historian.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Absolutely, use of the title and historical facts discovered by Cleves is irrelevant since they are not covered by copyright. It has to be shown that there was substantial copying of the expression, which is covered by copyright.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Walden's books is 90% or more images and dialog that are simply not in Cleves' book. It's not plagiarism, it's not a "rip off." Walden credits Cleves' work in an afterward. Cleves is cited 50+ times in the companion website, which calls her "our Holy Mother of knowledge." www.charityandsylvia.com

I was able to weave these short remembrances together into a story with the added context of over 900 letters (nearly all sent to them) and the formidable, endlessly informative history on their lives written by Rachel Hope Cleves titled Charity and Sylvia and published in 2014. Without these different angles from which to see them, my job would have been much harder. Their own papers rarely mentioned their childhoods, but because of the work of historian Hope Cleves and her research into that, I was able to describe their youth with a satisfying amount of detail.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I can deal with the tone. The real problem is that the actions are not consistently Christian. The actions are aggressively uncharitable.

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Obamas have been out if office for 10 years But Trump supporters can't keep their names out of their mouths The racism in them will never accept a black man his wife and their children were a happy beautiful 1st family cuz to them a n***** being president was a tragedy

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

On the bright side you shouldn't have to worry about mice.

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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Congratulations to Yunyufei Luo on his EHS award and blog on “Credit Generation without (External) Contract Enforcement: Property Redemption Rights in Traditional China, 1592 – 1950”. @yunyufeiluo.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬‬ ehs.org.uk/credit-gener...

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Credit Generation without (External) Contract Enforcement: Property Redemption Rights in Traditional China, 1592 - 1950 - Economic History Society

In this post Yunyufei Luo (University of Oxford) presents their research, which was supported by the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students. — How did people deal with credit w...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Here is what I find so interesting. The excellent work of scholars like @lavaredmonds.bsky.social shows that HBCU trained teachers closed gaps, but we’d rather focus on narratives centered on Black cultural deficits such as “role model effects” and this: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Self-Defeating Condescension of an Anti-Racist Education

How an “ideological purity spiral” derailed some of America’s most promising classrooms.

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Jennifer Withrow @withrowjenny.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My former job market paper has been published in the Journal of Economic History! This paper follows women in the US South as they migrated from the farm to the city in the early twentieth century. 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940 | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core

Gender and Racial Differences in Migration Behavior: Evidence from the Farm Exodus within and out of the U.S. South, 1900–1940

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Editorial Board plunges the Washington Post deeper into the MAGA Abyss

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The party of free markets, of Reagan, the intellectual heirs of Milton Friedman, the champions of market forces over big government, and of free enterprise and small business over the jackboots of government intervention.

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 17/04/2026

New preprint with Rafael Leite, Sandro Reia and Paulo Campos Cumulative Cultural Evolution in Structured Populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In which we take an old model of cumulative cultural evolution of mine and see what happens if you add social networks

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Agree. Our Share of Night is amazing.

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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 14/04/2026

There are two news items to share about the @echistsocreview.bsky.social First, we will no longer be posting on X\Twitter. Second, we have updated our notes to authors so that everyone is aware of our policy regarding AI. #econhist #scholarship

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Economic History Review (@echistsocreview.bsky.social)

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Where is that from? Pretty much everything in it is wrong.

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @SubarnaBee @uniGoettingen who works on topics related to education, gender, and political economy

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Your regular reminder: NBER WPs are also not open access (any more than a published journal article is). Still very useful to put a non-paywalled version on your website

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Gunes Asik @METU_ODTU who works on topics including gender and labor, particularly in Turkey

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Sounds like someone gave him a a copy of The Road to Wigan Pier

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

How is it different than having people pay for your book?

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This Black History Month, we invite you to explore the rich and complex history of Black travel during legal racial segregation. The Green Book Project serves as an archives and community project. Share your story here: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

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Christoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Worth noting that the @wsj.com has joined with the @nytimes.com and Bellingcat to say that ICE is lying in its description of the shooting of Alex Pretti. The video evidence more and more supports the view that this was a gratuitous execution. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

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Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents

See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

NYT lead headline: Videos Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Good review of Moen and Rodgers Before the Fed eh.net/book_reviews... The book is an unusual combination of business and macroeconomic history

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Before the Fed: J.P. Morgan, America’s Lender of Last Resort – EH.net

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I know there are more important things going on, but If you happened to see the review of McWilliams History of Money in the Times yesterday, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz was not actually written as a monetary allegory www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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The Fable of the Allegory: The Wizard of Oz in Economics

L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has become popular as a teaching tool in economics. It has been argued that it was written as an allegory of Populist demands for a bimetallic monetary sy...

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Thanks. I look forward to seeing it.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

If someone wanted to see at the evidence behind this argument where should they look?

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

It seems like a book with a lot of interesting stuff, but it is hard too tell what is new or useful.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I also have concerns about making capital accumulation the center of the story about the modern economy rather than productivity improving innovation.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

But he appears to see this global process beginning in Europe, which seems too undermine the claims he made about capitalism arising in many parts of the world.

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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I think Beckert agrees. Islands of capital are not capitalism. Since he defines capitalism as a global process structured by the state. You don't get capitalism until you have states and capitalists working together to make the process of capital accumulation global.

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