An Overheard Conversation: Loving History, a Sixteenth Birthday, Blogging,...
By Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Yesterday, I suddenly found myself in the position of a fly on the wall in a conversation between a graduate student in her late twenties and someone who was just about to turn...
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In the last several weeks, a debate has been going on among economics bloggers about the state of macroeconomics today.* The discussion seems to have been kicked off by a December 17 post by Paul...
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by James Livingston [Editor’s note: this guest post by James Livingston is a response to the conversation initiated by Ben Alpers’s post from yesterday, “An Unusable Past.” –LDB] Ben, Tim, and Kurt are...
View ArticleFindings & Arguments [6]
I recently read Mical Raz’s excellent new book, What’s Wrong with the Poor?, which Trevor Burrows reviewed at this blog a few months ago. One of the many aspects of Raz’s book that strikes me as...
View ArticleIt’s a funny thing…
A professor once asked his audience of captive graduate students, “Is there any room for humor in history?” The question came after relaying a story about a scrambled audio tape, a phrase mistaken for...
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