I don't know who exactly bears responsibility for the Index of Smith's Wealth (this is Cannan's edition but maybe there was some before), but it's the answer to all questions
"France: vineyards need not be envied by Britain"
"East India Company, [oppresses and domineers, 73;]
[Literature; was more profitable in Ancient Greece, 132-3]
[Lodgings, cheaper in London, than in any other capital city in Europe, 117]
Here's the syllabus for a new course I'm teaching with Quentin Couix from CIRED next semester (in case you're looking for reads on this topic)
"Economists facing nature, histories and contexts"
Suggestions for additional topics and reads welcome
The final version of my article on the history of the gender wage gap debate is out at History of Political Economy! It's part of a great special issue on women and economics that you should check out if you're interested in such things.
Free link for the paper: https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article/54/S1/221/316882/Controlling-for-What-Movements-Measures-and?guestAccessKey=2df7411f-5e2c-46c5-976c-508187c7d2bf
Cynicism 101 from Owen-Braeutigam's 1978 "Regulation Games"
"A regulated firm...should be prepared to coopt [academics] experts...requires a modicum of finesse... must not be too blatant, for the experts themselves must not recognize that they have lost their objectivity"
from Ben Franta's paper on how some economists (in particular associated with Charles River Associates) have participated in delaying climate action
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2021.1947636
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Here's the full issue link: https://read.dukeupress.edu/hope/issue/54/S1
Thanks to @cleocz, Evelyn Forget, and John Singleton for editing the issue and inviting me to participate!
A great retrospective in the last J. of Econ Perspectives
Sadie T.M. Alexander: Black Women and a “Taste of Freedom in the Economic World”
by Nina Banks
"In 1935, the nation’s first African American PhD economist, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, testified [...] in opposition to a bill that [...] did not mention race explicitly, but its effect was to benefit white women workers while
excluding nearly all African American women workers."
Go to https://twitter.com/settings/account and then "Your account" and then "Download an archive of your data." It has to bake for a bit and you should get a notification when it's ready for download.
Remember: You can download your entire Twitter archive. And if you care about preserving these things, now is probably the time to do it.
For those recently arrived who would like to contribute to or follow history of economics topics ( there's no keyword search on Mastodon)
Use and follow
-some hashtags:
#historyofecon and #histecon,
also more general #histsci #histodons #histodon #histecon #historyofecon
- the group (that is, an automatic aggregator of all toots that mention @historyofeconomics in the text)
find it there @historyofeconomics
and feature your toots by adding @historyofeconomics to your toots/tweets
Video de notre table ronde aux JECO sur le thème "taxer la terre":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpsXuheNPM
3 intervenant.e.s qui retracent l'histoire de cette idée, depuis Walras (et même Thomas d'Equin) jusqu'à Vickrey, Stiglitz et Arnott, et 3 intervenants qui discutent l'intérêt d'une telle politique aujourd'hui, dans un contexte d'augmentation des inégalités spatiales et patrimoniales
Beatrice Cherrier
Dan Hirschman
Olivier Godechot
Jose De Sousa 🛒
Jonathan Zittrain