Economic History in the Popular Press
- In "The Moody's Blues," The Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2008, a discussion of the current financial crisis in the various bond markets and Joe Mason's research on bond defaults.
- Nicholas Wade in "Habits of industry that made revolution work," Scotsman.com, August 11, 2007, discussing Greg Clark's research on economic growth, the nature of the human population and the Industrial Revolution.
- Nicholas Wade in "Dusty Archives, a Theory of Affluence," The New York Times, August 7, 2007, discussing Greg Clark's research on the Industrial Revolution.
- Moritz Schularick and Niall Ferguson, "Chimerical? Think Again," Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2007, discussing high returns on capital and low cost of capital in the contemporary world economy.
- Gina Kolata, "So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You," New York Times, July 30, 2006, discussing the research of economic historians Robert Fogel and Dora Costa on historical changes in health status.
- John Tierney's op-ed, "Disunited States of America," New York Times, July 4, 2006, a discussion of the counterfactual economic history that would have unfolded if the Confederate States of America had gained independence. The article focuses on EHA President Roger Ransom's book, The Confederate States of America: What Might Have Been, with comments by John Majewski and Jeff Hummel.
- Claudia Goldin's op-ed, "Working It Out," New York Times, March 15, 2006, A27, on the labor force participation of educated women.
- Recent article, "Happiness and Housework," Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2006, p. W11, citing Joel Mokyr's research
- Louis Galambos's comment, "The Business of History," on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2006, A12.
- Recent article, "This Time, Emerging Markets Are For Real," Economist, February 28, 2006, citing Moritz Schularick's research on historical international investment patterns.
- Recent article (in German) discussing the research of Tim Cole, Jörg Baten, and John Komlos on antropometrics, where they discuss the interdependence between height and national as well as individual income:
- Von Marcus Anhäuser, "Die durchschnittliche Körpergröße zeigt den Zustand eines Landes oft besser als die Einkommensstatistik." Die Suddeutsche Zeitung, February 13, 2006.
- Bertrand Roehner's research is discussed in "Modelisation: L'histoire en quete de constantes"
(Invariants and regularities in historical modeling), Sciences et Avenir (February 2006), pp. 84-90.
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