Extremely excited to announce my new book with @MarkKoyama!!!
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
@politybooks
Available in US: 9 May 2022
Available in UK: 24 March 2022
Pre-order (in US) here:
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (co-edited with @jaj7d) will be published in September 2023!
Chapters available as they are formatted at: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…
The contributors did an amazing job. A thread on each chapter in the volume… (1/47)
All 45 chapters are now available online for the Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy
academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…
The handbook will be out in Fall 2023. @jaj7d and I are very proud of how the handbook came together. Hoping you find it as useful as we do!
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (co-edited with @jaj7d) will be published in September 2023!
Chapters available as they are formatted at: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…
The contributors did an amazing job. A thread on each chapter in the volume… (1/47)
We (@jaj7d & I) are *very* excited to announce the chapters for the Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy (out in early 2023)
We are proud that it is interdisciplinary. It is a mix of mostly political scientists & economists, as well as historians & sociologists
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Parents. Look, if your child has not decided by the end of kindergarten that they want a PhD in economics, there is no hope
If they haven’t read MWG cover to cover by the end of third grade, you have failed them
Diffusion of public mechanical clocks and the printing press by 1500 in Europe. From a soon to be working paper by Lars Boerner, @bsevergnini, and myself.
Germans and N Italians liked their tech!
Academic: here you go, the final draft of my manuscript
Press [after 9 months of silence]: Here are the proofs. You have 3 days to look over 500 pages
Academic [3 days later]: here you go
Press [8 months later]: there were production delays. Your book will be out in 1-2 years
Amazing news to share. My book—Rulers, Religion & Riches—has been awarded the Douglass North prize by the SIOE (Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics) for the best book in institutional and organizational economics published in the last 2 years!
Amazing news! My book, Rulers, Religion, and Riches, was awarded the Lindert-Williamson Prize by the Economic History Association for Outstanding Book in Global Economic History!