Angus Bylsma
@AngusBylsma
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MSc @LSEEcHist • Writing about economic history at https://t.co/VJz21lNCf4 • Banks, peasants, and all in between • Tasmanian fugitive
London, England
Joined May 2022
The Wickham Reviews Thought I’d compile all my attempts to get to grips with Chris Wickham’s three great tomes of mediaeval economic history, for posterity. Check them *all* out below!
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What were the causes of South Korea's export miracle? My new paper w @philippbarteska, @straightedge, @seung_econ explores a major overlooked factor: U.S. military procurement during the Vietnam War. We bring new evidence to the Q of how geopolitics shapes development. 🧵:
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Enjoying Mokyr’s Lever of Riches a lot as someone who has never read much history of science. Did not know, for example, that the most important technological advances of medieval Islam were in chemistry (they invented alkalis, which for obvious reason I should have guessed!)
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As a damaged person I sold/gave away most of my physical books before going to the UK. So no bookshelf now. Couldn’t part with these though…
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So @njtmulder's Substack is about as good you'd expect and you should be required reading for anyone interested in an informed view on geoeconomics and global economic history. Also appreciate the Stakhanovite clip. [link below]
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👍👍👍 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ "The best takedowns should be effortless, seamlessly integrated within an argument or restatement, as to make the demolition of the target appear merely incidental. This is exactly what Jessica Goldberg achieves in Trade and Institutions in the Mediaeval
This week’s review! — Jessica Goldberg on Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean. A book which leaves Avner Greif’s thesis in the same place as the French fleet in 1798: lying at the bottom of the Nile.* https://t.co/llIjT0ZE4h
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I should be clear that I’m far from a catholic mainstream economist. I really don’t care about much other than ec hist for Christ sake! But I want to be nowhere near any club that would have a hack like Keen as a member…
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This is entailed within my deep animosity towards Steve Keen. My country exports many environmentally damaging things around the world. He is one of them.
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Time series econometrics is so much fun, such a shame you have to be interested in business cycles to use it
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This is entailed within my deep animosity towards Steve Keen. My country exports many environmentally damaging things around the world. He is one of them.
My instinctive sympathy for heterodox econ is struggling to withstand the sheer stupidity of the ‘critiques’ self-described heterodox keep vomiting up. Never been more negatively polarised in my life.
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My instinctive sympathy for heterodox econ is struggling to withstand the sheer stupidity of the ‘critiques’ self-described heterodox keep vomiting up. Never been more negatively polarised in my life.
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The routes of the Fatimid-Maghrebi-Palermo Jews. From Goldberg, @AngusBylsma. https://t.co/Wfll5QyXS0
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This week’s review! — Jessica Goldberg on Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean. A book which leaves Avner Greif’s thesis in the same place as the French fleet in 1798: lying at the bottom of the Nile.* https://t.co/llIjT0ZE4h
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(Trying to see if the new link system on here is better or not)
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This week’s review! — Jessica Goldberg on Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean. A book which leaves Avner Greif’s thesis in the same place as the French fleet in 1798: lying at the bottom of the Nile. https://t.co/llIjT0ZE4h
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Heterodox schmeterodox… time to see what all the fuss is about
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(1) I have always been sceptical of but never actually read directly; (2) and (3) sound interesting but I was unaware; (4) I have always found very compelling and original.
Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.
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I have to sheepishly admit I’ve never read any Mokyr books, only a couple papers. Guess I have to wade in now.
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A few days in Milan and I’m regretting some choices. Should’ve been a Bocconi boy, if just for the proximity to modern Italian masterpieces.
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