The Poor Rich World
Joseph FrancisThis is a blog on economic history.
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Anthropic’s Economist in the Anthropocene
The Anthropic Institute recently hired the Stanford professor Charles I. Jones to help achieve its goal “to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies.” As another economics professor put it, this m...
The Columbian Exchange for Dummies
“And then Came the Potato…” May Be Overly Simplistic
In The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972), Alfred Crosby sought to reimagine how we understood the impact of Christopher Columbus. “Man is a biologic...
Nazis in Space and Other Tall Tales
Historical Economics Is Sometimes Just Noise
Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth’s recent article “Highway to Hitler” (2026) illustrates how space continues to be a major problem for historical economics. Published in American Economic...
This Ethnicity Is a River
More on the Historical Economics of the African Slave Trade
In his first study of the subject, Nathan Nunn told a simple story in which the slave trade caused Africa’s underdevelopment. Subsequently, he added a mechanism. In an article co-...
Did Europe Underdevelop Africa?
The Slave Trade Illustrates the Limitations of “Historical Economics”
In How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), Walter Rodney tells a complex story. He covers 500 years of history, beginning in the fifteenth century and reaching into the...
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