History
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The “Fortune 500” of 1812
Aug 27, 2024
By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country and possibly more than all other countries combined.
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Working Paper
Scale and Scope in Early American Business History: The “Fortune 500” of 1812
Aug 2024
By 1812 the U.S. already had more business corporations than any other country, and possibly more than all other countries put together, securing its role as the world’s first “corporation nation.”
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Oil and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s: A Reanalysis
Jun 25, 2024
An excerpt from Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide by David N. Gibbs, published by Columbia University Press (2024)
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Are You Ready to Dive Deep into China's Intellectual Odyssey?
Apr 25, 2024
Wang Hui, author of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, now available in English, provides conceptual guidance for understanding China’s intellectual progress in a conversation with INET’s Lynn Parramore.
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Bagehot on Money: A Bridge Between Bankers and Economists?
Jan 22, 2024
Reinterpreting Bagehot’s mature work as the origin of the key currency tradition
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Working Paper
Bagehot’s Classical Money View: A Reconstruction
Jan 2024
Read in the context of his time, Bagehot’s book Lombard Street appears as an attempt above all to reveal the dynamic of globalization when global money was sterling.
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We Owe an Apology to Adam Smith
Jun 7, 2023
Smith did not advocate a single-minded pursuit of profit
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The Big Myth of Market Fundamentalism
Mar 16, 2023
Historians Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) and Erik Conway (Caltech) talk to Rob about their just released book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
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Meet the Man Who Helped Make the Dollar the World’s Currency
Feb 23, 2023
Perry Mehrling’s new book traces the rise of the dollar through the life and career of influential economist Charles Kindleberger
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We Need to Talk About the Original Sin of Economics
Feb 15, 2023
How a bleak Christian theology influenced the development of the dismal science
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The Rise of the Global Dollar System
Jan 11, 2023
Why does the apparently prescient and correct “key currency” view remain an embattled minority view?
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Working Paper
Exorbitant Privilege? On the Rise (and Rise) of the Global Dollar System
Jan 2023
Things are going to break and central banks are going to have to respond, but the mental frame that most people will be using is not well suited for understanding how the world now works
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Years granted:
The Methodology of Systematic Risk
This research project explores the factors producing “herding” in the economics profession and professional investment community with the goal of articulating policy changes appropriate to the organization of the economics profession and its practices in particular.
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Years granted:
2011,
Money and Empire: A Biography of the Dollar
This research project recounts the intellectual history of the dollar as an international reserve currency, starting with World War I, which brought the international gold standard to an end, and continuing all the way up to the present global financial crisis.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
Legal Fiction: An Intellectual History of the COASE Theorem
This research project provides us with a greater understanding of why the Coase theorem came to captivate the minds of economics and legal scholars and how its impact on economics and law reshaped both the theoretical landscape and legal-economic policymaking.