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pseudoerasmus.com
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| | | | | { This post is mostly stringing together my scattered tweets over the past couple of weeks. I've had numerous discussions on this subject with Vincent Geloso, Judy Stephenson, Ben Schneider, Benjamin Guilbert, Anton Howes, and Mark Koyama. But yesterday Geloso sent me the paper he's working on for Alsatian wages and that kick-started furtherthoughts I... | |
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nephist.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Spinning the Industrial Revolution by Jane Humphries (Oxford) and Benjamin Schneider (Cornell) Abstract The prevailing explanation for why the Industrial Revolution occurred first in Britain is Robert Allen's (2009) 'high-wage economy' view, which claims that the high cost of labour relative to capital and fuel incentivized innovation and the adoption of new techniques. This paper... | |
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notesonliberty.com
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| | | | | Over the last week or so, I have been heavily involved in a twitterminar (yes, I am coining thatportemanteauterm to designate academic discussions on twitter - proof that some good can come out of social media) between myself, Judy Stephenson , Ben Schneider , Benjamin Guilbert, Mark Koyama, Pseudoerasmus, Anton Howes(whose main flaw is that... | |
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geopolicraticus.wordpress.com
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| | | Saturday A Scientific Research Program That Never Happened Carl Sagan liked to characterize the Library of Alexandria as a kind of scientific research institution in classical antiquity: "Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology, and engineering. Science and scholarship had come of age. Genius flourished there. The... | ||
