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Professor, University of Manchester. Fellow ICS-UL. Director @ArthurLewisLab . Economic History, Growth & Development, Macro, Political Economy. ๐ช๐บ ๐ต๐น๐ป๐๐ธโต
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Program for the โQuantifying the Long Run History of Africaโย conference
@ArthurLewisLab
conference
#4
,
@OfficialUoM
keynotes: J. Bolt, M. van Waijenburg,
@lwantchekon
,
@JacobWeisdorf
,
@leighgardnerEH
, G. Austin.
co-organized w/
@hcarvalhal1
&
@jordicaumj
Program details๐
๐Call for papers: Quantifying the Long Run History ofย Africa
@ArthurLewisLab
conference
#4
,
@OfficialUoM
keynotes: J. Bolt, M. van Waijenburg,
@lwantchekon
,
@JacobWeisdorf
,
@leighgardnerEH
, G. Austin.
Apply before: Sept. 11
Organized w/
@hcarvalhal1
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@jordicaumj
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I have decided to boyocott ๐ท๐บ in protest at invasion of ๐บ๐ฆ.
I was scheduled to give a research seminar at HSE, Moscow, this coming Thursday (via Zoom), and have cancelled it.
I encourage other academics to do the same.
Russia must be punished and isolated.
I stand for ๐บ๐ฆ.
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My main employer, The University of Manchester, has been receiving complaints against me from the Portuguese far-left. Dear communists tweeting and emailing from your beloved iphones, I have three words for you: Freedom of Expression. You don't scare me. Democracy will prevail.
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PhD students: if you feel depressed or suicidal, seek help.
During my PhD at LSE there were 2 suicides of PhD students. One in the econ. dept. and one in the econ. history dept. I was involved with and teaching in both depts.
Doing a PhD is tough. Hang on. Things do get better!
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Since my undergrad days, I wanted an academic career. My path wasn't easy. I faced difficulties early on (a tale for another day!), and hence only finished my PhD when I was 32.
Now, not yet 40, I'm glad to announce that I've been promoted to Professor.
Dream on, never give up!
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Had the idea around 15 years ago.
Was part of my PhD 2015.
Submitted 2016.
Accepted & forthcoming 2021.
๐ & now:
Palma, N. (2022). The Real Effects of Monetary Expansions: Evidence from a Large-scale Historical Experiment. The Review of Economic Studies 89 (3), pp. 1593-1627
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โฌ๏ธUPDATE: Case closed. The Univ. of Manch. concluded (surprise!) that there was no wrongdoing. There will be no apology. To the followers of my academic work: sorry for the last week but I managed to survive the Portuguese inquisition. To the censors: you can unfollow now. Bye!๐
My main employer, The University of Manchester, has been receiving complaints against me from the Portuguese far-left. Dear communists tweeting and emailing from your beloved iphones, I have three words for you: Freedom of Expression. You don't scare me. Democracy will prevail.
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I'm delighted to announce that I have been awarded a large
@ESRC
research grant:
"Measuring the Great Divergence: A study of global standards of living, 1500-1950"
A call for a postdoc will open soon.
In this thread I briefly give details. Stay to end for some juice about FCT.
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โฌ๏ธThe main paper from my PhD dissertation is forthcoming at Review of Economic Studies,
@RevEconStud
. Title: The real effects of monetary expansions: evidence from a large-scale historical experiment. Thread...
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In 1750 Portugal had an output per head higher than France or Spain. One century later it was Western Europe's poorest country. Why? Find all about it in this new working paper, joint work with the extraordinary
@dkedrosky
(watch this kid, he's going far):
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Yesterday I was called a fascist by hundreds including journalists and politicians, even a MEP (from the Socialist Party). They cut part of my lecture to strategically leave out the part where I said that the material gains of the Estado Novo regime did not justify it politically
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I reached the final (interviews) stage for a European Research Council grant worth 1.5 million euro, to study Iberian Science and its implications for technological development in Europe (15-16th centuries) and for the 17th century Scientific Revolution. Wish me luck!
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If slavery had been responsible for capitalism and creating wealth for countries, as historians of the "New History of Capitalism" claim, then the Soviet Union with all its gulags would have been the richest and most capitalist country of the 20th century.
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OK boomer
Hilariante a entrevista do Nuno Palma ao Sol. Os acadรฉmicos sรฃo provincianos, todos aqueles que nรฃo concordam com ele nรฃo fizeram nada de relevante ou tรชm uma atitude "anti-empรญrica, anti-cientรญfica". Feliz por me juntar a F.Rosas, Pacheco Pereira, Rui Tavares, SSP, PNS nesse rol
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The official History school programs in secondary schools in Portugal emphasize in great detail fascism and nazism (I agree with this) but then do not have an equal emphasis on the crimes of communism, which the European Parliament resolution of 2019 has equated on moral grounds.
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Today we have presidential elections in Portugal. I cannot vote due to government's neglect to organize electronic voting. My moral support goes to
@LiberalMayan
of the Liberal Party
@LiberalPT
. May they grow so we have policies that lead to a richer, fairer, happier Portugal ๐
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๐ต๐น Portugal has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. Why?
The govm't claims it's due to their competence.
Don't believe it.
It's simpler: there are few anti-vaxers.
This is partly due to a compar. high level of public confidence in govm't, with historical roots.
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Dismal statistics for mental health issues in European Economics Departments:
๐ 34.7% of PhD students experience moderate to severe symptoms of depression or anxiety.
๐ Among faculty, 31.4% of untenured, tenure-track faculty experience the same, compared with 9.6% for tenured
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I have never been a social conservative. I fully support the legalization of cannabis. During my 20s, no party existed in Portugal that I could agree with on *both* social and economic issues. I feel immensely happy that
@LiberalPT
now exists and grows ๐
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Portugal, a paradise๐๏ธ in Western Europe where:
โ
half the workers earn 850 euro per month or less;
โ
more than 20% of the native-born live abroad (you usually need some sort of war to get to such a percentage). Emigration in recent decades has been massive.
Viva Portugal! ๐ต๐น
The stagnated Portuguese economy pushes as many citizens to live abroad as the civil wars in the Balkans:
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The Estado Novo was not Fascist. There is wide agreement among serious historians about it: Salazar was a social conservative dictator; fascism is something else. The actual fascist movement was made illegal. Those who call the regime Fascist only parade their ignorance 1/6
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For a week now, dozens of MPs, journalists and opinion-givers in TV and print have lied about me and shown their complete ignorance about Econ. History. The fact that they lied is easily demonstrable (see my previous tweets). Guess how many have admitted they were wrong so far? 0
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โฌ๏ธcandidate for most fake history in a single tweet
Otelo de Carvalho, whom we just lost, not only overthrew a fascist dictatorship but, also, showed that genuine democracy necessitates wealth re-distribution. By orchestrating his overthrow, the SPD (led by Helmut Schmidt) signalled social democracy's death as a progressive force.
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The lecture in full can be found in youtube. What I said about the Communist Party was: it fought against the Estado Novo regime, but its goal was never to have Democracy. Its regime would have been as dictatorial as the Estado Novo, but would have led to worse material outcomes.
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The ๐ช๐บ needs to wake up about what's going on in ๐ต๐น.
Why is it reasonable that a report on disinformation is written by a "special advisor" of
@antoniocostapm
?
Shocker that the report "forgets" to mention that Portugal's government as well as Socialist Party politicians are ...
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๐ Delighted to announce the foundation of The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
@OfficialUoM
!
In short: the Lewis Lab.
Open position for the inaugural Lewis Fellow postdoc (3-year position) coming!
All about interdisciplinary research, w/ focus on economic history.
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Portugal has been diverging from the European core for two decades now, while most of the Eastern block has been catching up. Some random dude in the internet is going viral by spreading falsehoods about this historical process. Here's a quick debunk.
@JornalPoligrafo
@LiberalPT
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There is a lot of ignorance and bad faith out there. It should be obvious that there is no contradiction among the following: 1. Dictatorships should be condemned 2. We should use the correct historical terms to refer to each one 3. Democracy is an end in itself. Censors go home
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Portugal's economy has been diverging from the European core for more more than 20 years now. That was also the case 150 years ago, when the poet Antero de Quental made a famous speech about "the causes of the decadence". 1/2
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The Lisbon City Council had the brilliant idea๐กof sending to Moscow the personal data of activists who asked to gather in protest in favor of
@navalny
. Putin is proud! At least ๐ต๐น's data protection agency RGPD seems much faster than when I last needed it for research purposes...
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Due to the media attention, some people in Portugual are puzzled about why do I tweet in English. I would not bother answering if it was just the imbeciles, but I know others are curious. It's simple: I'm an academic, not a politician or pundit. Not here to sell you anything ๐
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I have a Twitter account since 2015 & never blocked anyone. My policy has now changed: I will block those who curse or poste unpolite gestures etc. Especially anonymous accounts. Happy to debate different worldviews, but cheap lies and profanity are not welcome. My home, my rules
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Delighted to announce that our paper:
"Comparative European Institutions and the Little Divergence, 1385-1800"
is forthcoming at ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐๐ต,
@j_econ_growth
. We appreciate the help of
@GalorOded
and the referees, who much helped improve it
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Next month there will be elections for the parliament and govm't in ๐ต๐น.
I will vote
@LiberalPT
.
It is, by far, the party most interested in reforming the country.
They even have symbolically
@NGaroupa
on their list of MP candidates. He has the best diagnosis of what is needed.
๐ด๐ต LEGISLATIVAS 2022 - Apresentaรงรฃo de Candidatos
๐ฅ Joรฃo Cotrim Figueiredo
๐ฅ Carlos Guimarรฃes Pinto
๐ฅ Nuno Garoupa
๐ฅ Joana Cordeiro
๐ฅ Rui Rocha
๐ฅ Cristiano Santos
A polรญtica portuguesa nรฃo vai ficar a mesma com a bancada da Iniciativa Liberal no Parlamento.
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I gave an interview, out today, to the newspaper
@SolOnline
. The link to the full version is below for anyone who may be interested and understands the Portuguese language.
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Happy to announce that I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor). I am thankful to all that helped me in this journey, with special thanks due to Tim Besley,
@AdamBrz
,
@carneiro_econ
,
@mdoepke
, Patrick O'Brien, Jaime Reis, and to my parents, always supportive
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โฌ๏ธA viral interview talks about how Brazilians are ashamed of their Portuguese origins, blaming their underdevelopment on that. A popular viewpoint in Brazil is that if they had been colonized by the Dutch instead, all would be great.
A Suriname ๐ธ๐ท counterfactual raises doubts...
Brasil tem vergonha das origens portuguesas, diz autor de livro sobre estranhamento entre paรญses
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We must not project Englandโs later economic success into the earlier periods. English political (and economic) divergence relative to the Iberia started around the mid-seventeenth century, but not before. Here is a new paper by
@EcHistorian
and myself:
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The Holodomor "is not so simple" as "we don't know how many people died or what were the causes". Heard it before on different contexts? This is what the person below claims. He claims to be a scholar & actually has a PhD in History, written under the supervision of F. Rosas:
@Vitor_Cabc
@nunopgpalma
@SolOnline
E olhe que isso do Holomodor nรฃo รฉ tรฃo simples quanto isso. Hรก historiadores a debater o assunto hรก dรฉcadas (eu nรฃo sou um deles, atรฉ porque nรฃo falo russo) sem chegar a uma conclusรฃo definitiva. Nem sobre o nรบmero de mortos nem sobre as suas causas.
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Yesterday I told my Danish friend
@JacobWeisdorf
what the minimum wage is in Portugal (~700 euro) and how close that is to the median wage.
He wouldn't believe it.
๐ต๐น is slowly becoming a developing country.
And a illiberal democracy too.
๐ช๐บ, keep ignoring this at your peril.
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In Portugal, denial of the crimes of communism including the Gulags or Holodomor is common among parties sitting in the national parliament. There is a complete inability to accept that the communist regimes of past and present do not have a higher moral ground than the Nazis.
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๐ This woman calls herself a journalist and is outranged at me.
She dated Portugal's PM who received money from a big banker during office while making decisions benefitting said banker, according to court. Insulted justice and claims she knew nothing.
๐ต๐น: a wonderful country.
portanto se bem percebi o nuno palma acha mal q um museu dedicado ร memรณria da perseguiรงรฃo polรญtica, instalado numa antiga prisรฃo da ditadura de salazar onde eram colocados os resistentes, tenha como nome โmuseu da resistรชncia e liberdadeโ. estou confusa: qual รฉ o problema?
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The newspaper Pรบblico () published today my response to the politicians who insult my work and me in order to manipulate Portugal's economic history for political gains. An ungated and slightly larger version is here (in Portuguese):
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โฌ๏ธ Proof that my argument in MEL was correct. Those who rule the failing country that Portugal has become must find excuses and smoke screens. They are responsible for more than 2 decades of divergence relative to the EU. My speech (in Portuguese) is here:
Bem diz Pacheco Pereira...nรฃo nos ponhamos a pau, nรฃo, que os amantes do MEL transformam o Estado Novo de defensรกvel em replicรกvel. Cabe-nos resistir, felizmente nรฃo como entรฃo, porque, felizmente e graรงas ao 25 de Abril que tanto lamentam, em liberdade โ
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Pleased that our paper, "The vagaries of the sea: evidence on the real effects of money from maritime disasters in the Spanish Empire" is accepted for publication at ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ค๐ข๐๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ
@restatjournal
@AdamBrz
@YChen_ks
@econfward
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Some people are angry that I compared Portugal to Hungary. I said the political situation was not as bad yet (it's heading there), but allow me to remind you that according to independent & comparative studies, PT is no longer a full or liberal democracy. Details in the blog post
I gave an interview, out today, to the newspaper
@SolOnline
. The link to the full version is below for anyone who may be interested and understands the Portuguese language.
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When 150 years ago, Antero de Quental spoke in Lisbon about the long-term causes of the economic and social decline of Portugal, he was subject to censorship, because politicians considered that his talk was an "attack on the institutions of the state":
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A funny thing about all the hate I get here from the far-left (for saying obvious things such that communism is not democratic) is this: if I tweet in the morning, they only show up as a pack considerably later. I have this theory: they are a bit lazy so they sleep until late๐คซ
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Orwell wrote in "1984" (written in 1948) that those who control the past, control the future; and those who control the present, control the past. Moderates must not allow radicals to control the past to pursue their ideological utopias.
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สแดแดก ษชษดสสแดแดแด
ษชษดษข แด๊ฐ๊ฐแดแดแด๊ฑ แดสแดแด
แดแดแดษชแด ษชแดส ษชษด แดแดสแดแดแด
Spain registered the 2nd highest level of inbreeding (88%), surpassed only by Portugal (91%).
Nature article from 2001, but not much has changed. If you know more recent comparative studies, do please reply
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โฌ๏ธHere we go again, the MP
@MigCMatos
thinks he has found evidence showing that I am wrong while it is just the opposite. He clearly does understand that his table mixes cohorts and illiteracy rates in Portugal were in fact around 75% in 1900:
Ao cuidado do Nuno Palma e todos os outros simpatizantes da polรญtica econรณmica do Estado Novo, cuja fatura ainda pagamos muito caro hoje
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The left who falsely accuse me of being fascist don't get the irony. A 2019 European Parliament resolution on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe stated: "the Nazi and communist regimes carried out mass murders, genocide and deportations and caused ...
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PhD students in Econ:
๐your program teaches you a lot of theory and (if you're lucky) applied econometrics tools too.
๐one thing PhD programs don't seem to do a great job at teaching is how to write well.
๐ but make no mistake: writing well is critical to getting published!
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In a new paper (co-authored w/
@PapadiaAndrea
,
@thaleszp
,
@leoweller
) we consider the relationship between slavery and development in 19th c. Brazil. Despite its centrality, slavery was not essential for the production of cotton or industrialization (1/5):
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The slavery debate is out of hand. Most has become normative, and useless as far as history is concerned. I am interested in history & causal consequences, not political activism.
Letโs at least get this right: white Europeans did not start slavery in Africa. But they ended it.
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One often heards that Portugal grew and converged with Europe during Estado Novo dictatorship in the postwar thanks to the exploitation of the African colonies. *This is false*. Colonies had high administrative and warfare-related costs. Exports to them were only about 3% of GDP.
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I have finally received my letter from
@ainterna_pt
and I will be voting
@LiberalPT
! Unfortunately, under the current rules, for my constituency (living abroad) it is hard to get an MP elected from IL, but I vote by principle. Only 4 MPs for the millions of Portuguese abroad...
It is now Jan. 14 and I have not received a bulletin to vote in the Jan. 30 elections for the parliament and gov't of ๐ต๐น.
Upon further investigation, I have learned this is the responsibility of Direรงรฃo-Geral de Administraรงรฃo Interna under
@ainterna_pt
.
Will I be able to vote?
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โฌ๏ธI wrote a 2-page reply to the far-left politician and (supposedly) historian F. Rosas in today's Pรบblico. My response is not really for him or other opportunist Portug. politicians (including those of the Socialist Party) who wish to re-write History to benefit politically. 1/2
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The MEP
@PedroMarquesMEP
and other members of
@psocialista
falsely accused me of being a sympathiser of the dictatorship that governed Portugal until 1974. That this was false as was shown by several media outlets. Yet it is them who do not condemn Cuba's dictatorship:
ร impossรญvel ignorar que em Cuba a repressรฃo polรญtica e social รฉ cada vez maior. No entanto, em junho, os eurodeputados socialistas votaram contra a resoluรงรฃo do Parlamento Europeu sobre a situaรงรฃo polรญtica e dos direitos humanos em Cuba. ๐๐๐
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Months ago, a Ukrainian citizen was murdered by the border police at the Lisbon airport. After being tortured he was left to die for hours, and there was an attempted cover-up too. Yet no political consequences at the ministerial level. Shame on the government of
@antoniocostapm
Podem inventar os botรตes de pรขnico que quiserem. Enquanto a Diretora do SEF e o Ministro nรฃo se demitirem, a cultura de terror e impunidade vai continuar. via
@observadorpt
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Is there a term as intellectually lazy as "neoliberalism"? represents nothing but a meaningless insult. For most of the world's economies the state has a large weight in the economy. Why do colleagues in social sciences other than economics keep pushing these notions on students?
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๐ It's out! Previous thread here:
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"The ex-communist states of eastern Europe have ... the greatest concentration of development success stories since the east Asian miracles", wrote the FT last September
Meanwhile, in the true backward part of Europe, Portugal, the far-left have some original explanations...
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It's my great pleasure to announce that
@gguillaumeblanc
will be joining us at
@ManUniEconomics
as tenure track faculty!
This means that we will have now have 2 faculty members in addition to several postdocs and PhD students working on econ. history in the economics department!
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The conversation about slavery is out of hand.
Slavery still exists in the world today. Activists would do better studying that than making uninformed judgements about history.
Historically, slavery did not make the West rich. It did not lead to Capitalism (whatever it means).
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Just out in JEBO: "Can autocracy promote literacy? evidence from a cultural alignment success story", by J. Reis and myself. We ask: why did Portugal's authoritarian Estado Novo regime actively work to eradicate illiteracy and was so successful in this goal? 1/3
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Radio program with the historian Rui Ramos (in Portuguese) confirming that everything I said about the Estado Novo was correct: I mentioned historical **facts**. They are not political in nature. It is the politicians of today who are trying to re-write History for their benefit.
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Brazil (and Portugal) didn't become richer thanks to slavery. They became poorer, and more unequal. Causal evidence here๐
This is one of the main points of my JMP with
@nunopgpalma
โฆ massive slave trade -> expect โmassive effectsโ for real wages and inequality! Eltis even says that the first edition of the Atlas should have been in Portuguese! 2/2
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Glad to have been awarded a British Academy
@BritishAcademy_
Mid-Career Fellowship which will buy me additional time to write my book: "๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ: ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐" ๐
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Most people don't realize that many articles in The Economist are written by 20-something Oxford PPE graduates who know how to write well - and not much else. Excellent rebuttal by
@_alice_evans
. ๐
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I am a liberal who has many points of contact with social democracy and a few with (European) conservatism. Yet, in the last few weeks I have been accused by several politicians of being fascist or sympathizer; far-right; alt-right; radical right, despite evidence to the contrary
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@JornalPoligrafo
The fact that the article is also co-authored by the Chief Operating Officer of
@JornalPoligrafo
, despite the above facts, is also worrying. Others and I have in fact previously noted publicly that
@JornalPoligrafo
is not actually as independent as it may seem.
Triste paรญs! ๐ต๐น
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... themselves a major source of disinformation in Portugal. Perhaps even the main source. Just look at how many
@JornalPoligrafo
and other fact-checking articles show their endless lies and manipulation.
The ๐ช๐บ is subsidizing propaganda. It must stop ๐
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Thanks to all who wrote to me in solidarity. I know many did it privately because you are afraid that the censors chase you next. Careers in Portugal are less protected. As for the fools who parrot๐ฆ disproved lies, I have only this to say to you: รฉ para o lado que durmo melhor.
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Some personal news. I'm writing a book:
๐๐ง ๐
๐ข๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ: ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐
It's my first book. It is dedicated to my friend
@kivanc_karaman
from whom I have learned so much.
It hasn't been easy to write, but trying my best!
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โฌ๏ธ As late as the 1980s, in Poland:
- You *paid* for your (small) apartment upfront, waited years, and if you received it, it was never yours
- 40% did not have a bathroom
Homework for those who think communism or socialism are great๐ก: learn about how people actually lived โฌ๏ธ
This article pops up here and there on both leftist and housing Twitter and every time I'm so infuriated by all the wrong tankie takes I decided to write a short thread about housing construction in socialist Poland
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political persecution continued. After sending a letter to Manchester saying that I was a fascist, this individual has now decided to dig an address of mine and post it online. He pretends to hide it but then provides a link with the full address. Send the gangsters, I'm waiting
Sou super liberal economicamente, excepto quando รฉ para receber 200.000 euros do estado para fazer uma casinha na Isaltinolรขndia. mรrItOcRaCiA
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I gave an interview to Portugal's general interest magazine
@revistaSABADO
out this weekend. In the interview I speak about Portugal's economic history and the remarkable phenomenon of politicians and other fake historians who are trying to re-write History to benefit politically
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โฌ๏ธ charity & begging ๐ฐ. The money (managed by the government) will have political consequences which the EU does not fully understand and internalize.
VdL: "A lot of work ahead of youโฆ"
Costa: "Now I can go to the bank?"
VdL: You can go to the bank.
President
@vonderleyen
hands over Portugal recovery plan to
@antoniocostapm
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๐ Imagine Nazis deciding the content of a museum dedicated to the memory of political persecution. Would the international community tolerate it?
Unrepentant communists do this in Portugal at the invitation of the ruling Socialist Party. They are an affront to the
@Europarl_EN
.
A falta de seriedade no museu do Aljube estรก cada vez mais preocupante. O que deveria ser um lugar de memรณria da resistรชncia ao Estado Novo, com toda a complexidade inerente ao tema, estรก (previsivelmente) a tornar-se num simples apรชndice do PCP.
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โฌ๏ธuseless academic with zero impact, fan of cancel culture and political persecution (bufo), happens to also be grammar nazi, but does not actually know grammar: the divergence continues today & crises is the plural of crisis. Check out his fascinating research paid by your taxes
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All good ๐ท๐บ prospective and current PhD students who are interested in:
Economic History
Economic Growth / Development in History
Historical Political Economy
are welcome to apply to the
@ManUniEconomics
PhD program to work with me!
The sanctions/boycotts are not against you.
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I heard Dr. Alexander Lukin, head of the International Relations department of HSE, on Sky News blatantly supporting Mr. Putin.๐คข๐คฎ
But in cancelling, I was clear that anyone from HSE who does not support Putin's regime is welcome to be privately in touch with me about research.
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I am humbled and honored to have been elected to the Economic History Society Council (the governing body of the society) at today's annual general meeting. Looking forward
@EcHistSoc
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I'm grateful to
@cepr_org
for promoting me to Research Fellow, as of today!
Looking forward to participating even more in CEPR activities.
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In Portugal, this sort of nonsense is common coming from the far-left. Plenty of examples, but here's one: recently, a communist MP - yes, we actually have quite a few in Parliament, go figure - claimed that the Holodomor is an invention of "Nazis":
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Imagine that some right-wing parties in Europe used the swastika as a symbol. No one would rightfully tolerate that. So why do we tolerate this in so many countries? Reminder: the
@Europarl_EN
resolution of 2019 on "The importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe"
Map shows countries where the public display of communist symbols is banned. Source:
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โฌ๏ธ the facts show that Portugal's Socialist Party has transformed the economy into a trainwreck. As long as the EU provides continued access to cheap financing without requiring and enforcing actual reforms, we could be looking at continued divergence for the indeterminate future
25 anos de PS: 25 anos perdidos do ponto de vista econรณmico (e social e polรญtico tambรฉm, conforme falarei nos dois proximos artigos)
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The economic historian Pedro Lains passed away today. He was still middle-aged. I often had lunch with him in Lisbon and it's weird to think that he won't be around anymore. He was preparing a three-volume edited book about Iberian Economic History. R.I.P.
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As for those here to spread lies and propaganda: your opportunity passed when you lost in November 1975. Democracy was victorious and it will be now. Your continued overblown influence in Portugal has hindered our recent progress however, which is why moderates must resit you 6/6
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Anyone who confuses the factual description of Portugalโs economic history that I just gave with a political endorsement of the Estado Novo regime just does not understand the difference between positive and normative statements. History is what it was. Pedro Lains was left-wing.
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๐จ๐จ๐จnew paper: ๐๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ง, joint with the excellent
@javiercharotti
and
@JPSantos_econ
.
Spain was one of the world's richest regions around 1500.
Two centuries later it was a backwater.
We investigate why.
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Instead, I hope this will be informative as dissemination to moderates. Also hope it will be my last response: my job is to do research and teach, not to answer populist politicians who only care about propaganda. The link is available here (in Port.): 2/2
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GDP reconstructions for the early modernย period
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โฌ๏ธ For those who deny the Holodomor. Or can't even spell it.
But these 8,000 people now found in 29 graves did not starve.
They were shot.
Add them to the 200,000 executed political prisonersย in Bykivnia.
Plus the Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers by the NKVD.
Etc.
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I'm a weird "fascist" right? one who thinks that homosexuals should have the same rights as heterosexuals, as should all minorities; that drugs and prostitution should be legalized (regulated), addicts treated as having a health problem (not as criminals). A weird fascist indeed!
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โฌ๏ธ Portugal could be like Hungary in a decade. It's heading there in part thanks to the unintended econ. & political consequences of overly generous EU funds. Weak institutions, demagoguery & state capture are not a matter of right vs. left-wing politics (narrow concepts anyway).
In Orban's Hungary, +90% of media is controlled by the ruling party. Businesses are physically and legally harassed if they don't toe the party line (or if someone wants them, cheap). Elections are manipulated. Party leaders are mysteriously rich. A model for Fox?
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To referees who reject the same paper in multiple journals:
๐Consider that perhaps the reason why authors are not taking your "suggestions" onboard is that those "suggestions" are in fact self-serving, non-constructive nonsense.
all the best,
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It is my pleasure to announce that
@jordicaumj
will join the
@ArthurLewisLab
as the inaugural Arthur Lewis Lab postdoctoral fellow! He will be with us during the next three academic years, joining our growing group of economic historians and development experts. Welcome, Jordi!๐ฅณ
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Proud to have been considered a "Scientist of Exceptional Merit" by the Lisbon Academy of Science,
@acadcienciaslx
. Every three years the Academy elects 20 researchers below the age of 40 from all scientific fields to give a public lecture, will be giving:
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โฌ๏ธshameless hypocrisy from many in ๐ต๐น's largest party. They want to make the protest party "Chega" illegal - because it became successful. They leave alone the nationalist party "Ergue-te" (formely PNR) to its right. Or the anti-democratic Communist and "Bloco de Esq." parties ๐คก
O lรญder da extrema-direita racista e fascista foi banido do Twitter. Atรฉ o Twitter topa o que o Tribunal Constitucional ainda nรฃo conseguiu topar.
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