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Leo Dolan @leodolan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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Leo Dolan @leodolan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@UExternado Colombia has launched a new Master’s in Economic History — and, seemingly because every other economic historian was busy, they’ve asked me to give the opening masterclass. Link below

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The column in the Liberation Day chart labeled "Tariffs Charged to the US" for South Africa is actually the US bilateral trade deficit divided by SA exports to the US: (14.7 - 5.8) / 14.7 = 60%. Kinda not what a tariff rate is! #econsky #tariffs

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Rebecca Simson @rebeccasimson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

My contribution to the AEHN open access textbook on African economic history is out! Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994 www.aehnetwork.org/textbook/afr...

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Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994 – African Economic History Network

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Leo Dolan @leodolan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Great paper! If the so-called "resource curse" was largely a Cold War-era phenomenon, and the last 30 years were a different story in development outcomes, then if we're entering Cold War 2.0, could this reactivate political backsliding, potentially reviving the latent resource curse mechanism?

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Leo Dolan @leodolan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Here are the links to my recently published EHR paper and AEHN blog on forced labour in colonial Africa: Living Standards and Forced Labour: A Comparative Study of Colonial Africa, 1918–74 tinyurl.com/2p8k6fhf Forced to Change? Factor Endowments, Monopsony.... tinyurl.com/2p9cwsra

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

People worry a lot about looming mineral shortages but this is a solvable problem as it has been solved in the past. In this article in Time, I look back at the response to previous fears of shortages: time.com/7202047/cold...

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The Blueprint for Winning the Race for Critical Minerals

The U.S. faced a similar predicament in the 1950s, and undertook an initiative that solved the problem.

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Leo Dolan @leodolan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

With all the recent chatter about the Benguela Railway, including in this Economist article, I thought I’d share an extract about its original construction which reads like something out of a Mad Max movie. Source: Adventures in Africa by J.B. Thornhill (1915) www.economist.com/middle-east-...

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Leo Dolan @leodolan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Nice! I would have expected much greater trade between Ethiopia and its neighbor, particularly Kenya.

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tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I have a little paper out in the latest issue of the Industrial History Review (a special issue on new frontiers in African economic history) that looks at spatial variation in living standards and purchasing power in French West Africa around 1950. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...

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Spatial inequality in living standards and the urban premium in late colonial French West Africa | Revista de Historia Industrial — Industrial History Review

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Leo Dolan @leodolan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Until 1963, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola relied on forced labour in its diamond mines, making it arguably the last major employer in colonial Africa to uphold such practices. My IHR blog examines the economic forces that sustained this system and what finally brought about its end. #Angola

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