“I think our best futurists are historians” 🔥 Economist Teresa Ghilarducci podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/who…

I am disappointed with mainstream US media, including the New York Times. The headlines are all about Biden’s debate performance. Yes, he’s old. Yes, it would’ve been great to have had a more inspiring younger candidate. Yes, he had a bad night, certainly compared to his State of

Just pre-ordered Sandeep Vaheesan's stunning new book!! (you can get 20% off with the code UCPHIS)

After final sprint, I now have a draft of my job market paper! "Governing the Company Town" uses archival research to show that corporate-dominated enclaves never went away, they just changed institutional form—as facilitated by local government law. I look forward to discussing!

Words of wisdom from Judge Mehta, rejecting Google's hypotheticals and throwing shade at the post-1970s antitrust ideology "Market realities matter more than what is theoretically possible."

Liane Hewitt’s (⁦Liane Hewitt⁩ ) research on the surprising history of monopoly power could not be more topical or vital today sciencespo.fr/histoire/en/re…

Just saw this ruling! A plug for my dissertation’s genealogy of the concepts we (and policy makers) use mapping monopoly power today. What if we thought of big tech as a cartel?? Interwar European jurists might well! (more to come in the book’s epilogue…)

« Private tyranny » is alive and well

In case anyone needs a friendly reminder on what Minnesota Democrats did under Tim Walz here is a quick reference. It's nothing short of extraordinary and what we need nationwide. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Too real. « A player wins by racking up more citations than the competition, even if that means engaging in a little light plagiarism » Whoever designed this game wins 1st prize for alt-acc I embrace self-mockery if it improves honesty & resists cynicism nature.com/articles/d4158…

This article has been seven years in the making and I am so happy to see it out in the world! It explores the link between tax havens and empire by way of an unusual suspect: the French colonial empire

J. K. Galbraith flagged falling unionization rates as far back as the mid-1960s.

Is the fight against tax havens starting to pay off? The BEA stats on US multinationals are out—and in 2022 haven profits dropped There is still a long way to go—more than 40% of foreign profits are still booked in havens!—but the trend break is notable Start of a new era?

John Steinbeck's 6 rules for the writer.

Black families whose ancestors were enslaved until the Civil War have considerably lower education, income and wealth today than Black families whose ancestors were free before the Civil War. Evidence in this new QJE paper

FINAL MANUSCRIPT SUBMITTED!!! High Five Peter Conti-Brown! press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Just getting around to opening these boxes. I really like the cover design. Profs: if you’re using this as a text this academic year let me know. I’d be happy to Zoom into your class if we can work it out.

Applications are invited for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for History and Economics in Paris (CHEP), Sciences Po, starting on 1 September 2025, in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. histecon.fr/en/fellowships…

Cette fois c'est officiel. Tout simplement heureux d'avoir fini et rendu ma thèse sur l'histoire des contrôles financiers internationaux à la fin du XIXe siècle (résumés 🇫🇷/🇬🇧 ci-dessous). Merci à toutes les personnes qui ont rendu cet aboutissement possible.

Just arrived by Mary Bridges, looking forward to reading