Writing about economic history at https://unevenandcombinedthoughts.substack.com
Angus Bylsma
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This week’s review!—back to Daunton, this time on the demolition of Bretton Woods and the potential lessons within. A guest post by the brilliant @samthorpe.bsky.social.
Against my better judgement, I've finally started a (free) Substack. As I explain in my first post, I see this as an avenue to write on some of the big questions that economics research isn't well-suited to: normative claims, historical work, and thinking about the roots of economic analysis.
It's been great fun talking to @angusbylsma.bsky.social about coins, trade, the 'end of antiquity', and even a little bit about methods and questions in economics and economic history.
New from me, on the wonderful @angusbylsma.bsky.social's blog: an essay about the collapse of Bretton Woods and the possibility of building such a system anew today, and a review of Martin Daunton’s comprehensive history of The Economic Government of the World.
The Economic Government of the World, Martin Daunton, 2023 (Pt.II).
This week's review! - Martin Daunton's The Economic Government of the World. Explaining why Bretton Woods was what it was, and wasn't what it wasn't.
This week’s post!—an interview with Johannes Boehm about his spectacular new paper with Thomas Chaney, ‘Trade and the End of Antiquity’. Whether your interests are early medieval history, trade theory, or just coins, this one is worth your time.
Angus Bylsma
This one is a longer read than my usual reviews. So maybe sit down with a beer or a coffee. Here’s a taste—as you can see, I’ve got questions for historians, for economists, and for methodological navel-gazers!
@samthorpe.bsky.social also wrote the supplemental to this review, on recent research on the elasticity of taxable income. There is no paywall on this one, so take a look.
This one is a longer read than my usual reviews. So maybe sit down with a beer or a coffee. Here’s a taste—as you can see, I’ve got questions for historians, for economists, and for methodological navel-gazers!
