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Prohibition in the United States
How America Tried to Ban Alcohol—and Why It Failed
Apr 24
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Smoke and Mirrors
Cigarettes and the myth of the capitalist cowboy
Apr 24
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The Bank War
Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight Over the Second Bank of the United States
Mar 31
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The Panic of 1837
Dec 12, 2024
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Asking Enron Why 25 Years Later
May 19, 2025
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The Authority of Gold
Feb 3
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The Lowell System: America's First Vertically Integrated Factory
Dec 11, 2024
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Capitalism, Slavery, and Power over Price
May 7, 2025
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You’ll Always Remember the First One
Jan 15, 2024
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Rational Actors Only
Catch-22 and the madness of economic reason
Mar 24
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Noah Smith’s “Why Does America Feel Worse?” A Debunk
A Miscellany of Misleading Claims, Causal Misattributions, and Factual Misreprensenation
Mar 10
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Anthony Perez Eisenbarth
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The Narrative Life of a Bubble
How do narratives about a bubble shape the bubble itself?
Mar 3
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Women and Wall Street: From Victoria Woodhull to “Fearless Girl”
By George Robb
Feb 24
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Market Reform as Marketcraft
By Steven K. Vogel
Feb 17
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A Myth of Machines
The Industrial Revolution and the Politics of Invention
Feb 10
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Weekend Reads
A few interesting pieces from the economic history world
Feb 7
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