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Rat-ta-ta-ta-tat

Roots of West Virginia's Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

What I'm Reading (Slowly)

American Mugabe, Revisted

What is a Market Economy?

Economics Appears Late

The Plunder Economy

The Classical and Medieval Economy

Ancient Rome, etc.

Yet More Economic History

On Economic History

More on Trade and Empire

Truck and Barter or Bandits?

Of Mayas and Markets

Power and Plenty

Did MAD Work - Or Did We Just Get Lucky?

IQ, Race, and History

Clark gives Greif Grief

Malthusian Myopia

Gavin Kennedy, Adam Smith, and Gregory Clark

Rat-ta-ta-ta-tat

Roots of West Virginia's Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

What I'm Reading (Slowly)

American Mugabe, Revisted

What is a Market Economy?

Economics Appears Late

The Plunder Economy

The Classical and Medieval Economy

Ancient Rome, etc.

Yet More Economic History

On Economic History

More on Trade and Empire

Truck and Barter or Bandits?

Of Mayas and Markets

Power and Plenty

Did MAD Work - Or Did We Just Get Lucky?

IQ, Race, and History

Clark gives Greif Grief

Malthusian Myopia

Gavin Kennedy, Adam Smith, and Gregory Clark

Economic Growth: Can You Give an Answer a Five-Year-Old Could Understand?

Reply to Clark

Clark Replies

Arnold on Clark

Malthus on Stilts: Clark Misinterpets the Malthusian Model

A Farewell to Alms: Overview of My Critique

The Messiness of Economic Analysis

DeLong is no Slouch

Interview with Gregory Clark

Cowen, Clark, and Malthus

Farewell to Alms Watch

Conceived in Tribalism

The IQ Revolution?

Taxes, Independence, and Canada

Independence Day: Any Reason to Celebrate?

Redistribution: Blocking the Revenge of the Nerds?

Victims of Communism Dedication Tomorrow

Depression Economics

All Depression, All the Time

Outstanding Book, Standout Price

The Great Depression

Estonian Symbolism

May Day Remembrance

Shlaes on the New Deal

300 and Freedom

A Relic of Prohibition

The New Deal vs. the Kling Deal

The New Deal Legacy

Calhoun's Defense of Poland's Unanimity Rule

Consensus on Roosevelt Fast Approaching

American Mugabe?

Normal Criticism of the New Deal

What Was the New Deal?

Roosevelt's Law of Tooth and Claw

The New Deal and the Great Depression

Jefferson on the Indians

New World Apocalypse

When Ayn Rand Villains Ruled the Earth

Columbus: The Far Left is Dead Right

The Lipinsky Memoir

When Hell Froze Over

Tragedy of the Commons

Socialist Hate Speech of Antiquity


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April 30, 2008

Rat-ta-ta-ta-tat



Admittedly I'm a sucker for a period piece, but World War I dogfight drama Flyboys has the most exciting aerial......MORE

April 14, 2008

Roots of West Virginia's Anti-Capitalistic Mentality



West Virginia's got the lowest level of economic freedom in the U.S. What's the reason? Newly-minted WVU Ph.D. Claudia Williamson......MORE

April 14, 2008

What I'm Reading (Slowly)



Second Nature, by Haim Ofek. It was written in 2001. It tries to address some puzzles in evolution and in......MORE

April 6, 2008

American Mugabe, Revisted



Remember last year's blogosphere debate on whether FDR was an "American Mugabe"? I just came across a 1997 piece by......MORE

April 2, 2008

What is a Market Economy?



Troy Camplin writes, In the "Acharnians," Dicaeopolis is in Athens and complaining about the war and how he is "longing......MORE

April 1, 2008

Economics Appears Late



Tyler Cowen writes, the absence of a developed economics until the mid-18th century remains a startling anomaly in the history......MORE

March 26, 2008

The Plunder Economy



From Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, p. 221: The expansion and maintenance of the......MORE

February 21, 2008

The Classical and Medieval Economy



George Grantham writes it appears likely that at its peak the classical economy was almost as large as that of......MORE

February 20, 2008

Ancient Rome, etc.



Mark Koyama has two more follow-ups, here and here. In the first, he writes Roman transport links were as good......MORE

February 19, 2008

Yet More Economic History



A representative sentence from John Darwin's history of the world since 1400, After Tamerlane (p. 305). The steamship and railway......MORE

February 19, 2008

On Economic History



Mark Koyama writes, in the great agrarian empires such as Rome, there was a large volume of trade in ordinary......MORE

February 6, 2008

More on Trade and Empire



James McCormick reviews Bryan Ward-Perkins on the fall of the Roman Empire. the era between Pompeii’s suppression of the pirates......MORE

January 9, 2008

Truck and Barter or Bandits?



Paul Walker writes, Arnold Kling isn't buying into this. He writes,"I just don't believe that over a thousand years ago......MORE

January 8, 2008

Of Mayas and Markets



The New York Times reports, The findings, archaeologists say, are some of the first strong evidence that the ancient Maya......MORE

December 29, 2007

Power and Plenty



Power and Plenty is the name of a new book by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke. Chapter 6, "Trade......MORE

November 27, 2007

Did MAD Work - Or Did We Just Get Lucky?



I think it's obvious that the Soviet Union was a vastly greater threat to the U.S. than Islamic terrorism will......MORE

October 30, 2007

IQ, Race, and History



Michael H. Hart's book, Understanding Human History, probably first came to my attention via Tyler Cowen. In his conclusion, Hart......MORE

October 16, 2007

Clark gives Greif Grief



Gregory Clark goes medieval on Avner Greif. In chapter 2, Greif lays out a formal definition of an institution. This......MORE

October 7, 2007

Malthusian Myopia



The Malthusian model is not as crazy as Greg Clark's interpretation of it in A Farewell to Alms (here's Clark's......MORE

September 30, 2007

Gavin Kennedy, Adam Smith, and Gregory Clark



Kennedy writes, In the extreme, I have suggested that economic history of the last 10,000 years (and for long enough......MORE


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