Essays on economic history by an academic economic historian, covering medieval economies, long-run growth debates and developments in scholarly research. Posts combine engagement with the historiography and data such as Domesday Book and Malthusian benchmarks with commentary on the profession.
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Long-form essays on the history of innovation and the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, drawing on archival research. Recent issues cover the salt trade, Scotland's outsized role in invention, and Tudor labour laws and trade.
Long Arc News is a reader-supported geopolitical newsletter that uses historical episodes, such as Iraqi oil pipeline disputes between Turkey, Syria and Iraq, to examine how physical energy constraints translate into political bargains and financial consequences. Readers get long, footnoted narrative analysis built on archival documents and primary sources.
Adam Tooze's newsletter curates and comments on daily links across economics, geopolitics and economic history, from tariffs and inflation to the AI boom's effect on the US current account. Each issue pairs current macro and market items with historical and intellectual-history threads and an art image.
An economic historian writes essays on South Africa's economic past, present and future, drawing on his own archival research on the Cape Colony. Recent issues examine the role of academic conferences, AI in research and universities, and a language model's critique of one of his own published tables.
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