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Happy to see my research paper about the economic consequences of political pressure on the Fed mentioned by Reuters Jamie McGeever Reuters story here: reuters.com/markets/europe… Link to the paper: econweb.umd.edu/~drechsel/pape… Story mentions great research by Davide Romelli as well!

History teaches that the Federal Reserve should be autonomous and independent on setting interest rates and deciding how much fuel to inject into the economy. When the political process gets in their way, the result is more inflation, less economic stability, and ultimately

Kind of convinced that this place will one day become twitter again because that's what we all want🐦

Getting ready for World EconHist at Lund & being forced to remember that my slides are never actuslly done until the paper is

In Vienna you walk by an evening open air concert late on Thursday night in the summer & it's pop but it's actually soaring voice with roadiohead tones, from a singer who is all over the place, staggering around the melody and yet somehow it still shimmers through. This city

The World Economic History Congress in Lund welcomed us with a marching band, this joyous brass-heavy jangle upbeat start. Very happy to be here. 4 days of #econhist

It's so disorienting - but neat - to be at the World Economic History Congress and getting a Complexity keynote talk. My two worlds have met

Presenting four different papers in three days was not the most sane decision I've ever made

Christian doing neat stuff imputing wages at WEHC

A great session, thanks for organising Joseph Enguehard

Putting more energy into retaining my own voice, the cadence of LLM prefab is exhausting

Many people are citing Peter Temin's Two Views paper (slow, narrowly based growth during the Industrial Revolution versus exports tell a different story of broad-based growth), but fail to note that Temin, with Voth, offered his own reconciliation of the two conficting views!

It turns out I really like reviewing papers. This in depth haul through the guts of an argument makes me happy. How do I become a reviewer for journals? Does this just start happening naturally as you progress? Would it be bizarre to ask? Have been invited a couple times, but...