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On Being Wrong
A friend of this blog recently suggested that, to be more respectable, I really ought to contact the people whose work I am reviewing as part of my attempt to provoke a Reformation in economic history.
My initial reaction was horror. I hav...
Beware the Fuzzy Matcher
Bolton-le-Sands Was Not a Hub of the Industrial Revolution
Bolton-le-Sands is a small, semi-rural village on the edge of the salt marshes of Morecambe Bay, a few miles north of Lancaster, in the Northwest of England. Its 4,000 or so reside...
Women, the Plough, and a Failure of Peer Review
Sometimes an Article’s Fragility Is Hiding in Plain Sight
In “On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough” (2013), Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano, and Nathan Nunn provide an explanation of women’s position across the world today....
Running Out of Patience with Economics
A Strange Case of Inverted Area Weights
When doing post-publication peer review, it is easy to become pessimistic about the whole human enterprise of knowledge production. It is easy to run out of patience due to the errors one finds. Furt...
SUTVA’s Long Shadow
Cotenability Complicates the Regressions of Historical Economics
Nelson Goodman’s concept of “cotenability” is a somewhat convoluted way of saying, among other things, that the background conditions invoked to support a counterfactual must...
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