~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (20)
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My excellent Conversation with Benjamin Moser - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Benjamin Moser is a...
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*Scarce and Valuable Economic Tracts* - Marginal REVOLUTION
Three big volumes, about 1800 pp., these books reprint the true classics behind the origins of...
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*Shock Value: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new and very useful book by Carola Binder, mostly a very good economic...
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Who was the wealthiest man in the world in the 1830s? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Wu Bingjian, better known in the west as ‘Houqua’, or sometimes ‘Howqua’, was the most successful...
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Economists' predictions from 1980 - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is the intro: Out of curiosity,...
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My Conversation with the excellent Coleman Hughes - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Coleman and...
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*Native Nations* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Kathleen Duval, and the subtitle is A Millennium in North America. This is...
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What should I ask Alan Taylor? - Marginal REVOLUTION
He is one of the greatest of living American historians, here is from Wikipedia: Alan Shaw...
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Michael Cook on Iran - Marginal REVOLUTION
Our primary concern in this chapter will be Iran, though toward the end we will shift...
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*The Carnation Revolution* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Alex Fernandes, and the subtitle is The Day Portugal’s Dictatorship Fell. A very...
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Robert Whaples reviews *GOAT* - Marginal REVOLUTION
An excellent piece, here is one excerpt I enjoyed in particular: Cowen reads the John Maynard...
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What should I ask Brian Winter? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Here is his bio: Brian Winter is the...
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My Conversation with Fareed Zakaria - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. You can tell he knows what an interview is! ...
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*Star Maker*, by Olaf Stapledon - Marginal REVOLUTION
Nnow though it was generally assumed in intellectual circles that the best was yet to be,...
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*Revolusi* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The subtitle is Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, and the author is David...
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My excellent Conversation with Marilynne Robinson - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Marilynne Robinson is one...
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The Gershwins on free trade (that was then, this is now) - Marginal REVOLUTION
In 1927, George and Ira Gershwin put on a musical satire about trade and war entitled...
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My TLS essay on the Clinton administration - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the link, I am reviewing a bad book on the Clinton administration (A Fabulous...
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What should I ask Benjamin Moser? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Here is one outdated bit from his...
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My Conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, here is the episode summary: Rebecca F. Kuang just...