Most Recent Post
- Follow pseudoerasmus on WordPress.com
Recent & Popular Posts
- Critiques of The History Manifesto
- Greece from Post-war orthodoxy to "Democratic Peronism"
- Fascism was not left-wing!!!
- Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton: A Reductionist Summary
- Did the "Invisible Blockade" against Allende work?
- The Bairoch conjecture & the "tariff-growth paradox" of the late 19th century
- Economic History Books
- The Napoleonic Blockade & the Infant Industry Argument
- Did inequality cause the First World War?
- Where do pro-social institutions come from?
- Ideology & Human Development (on Cuba's social development)
- Random Thoughts on Robert Allen's theory of the Industrial Revolution
- Critiques of Edward Baptist
- Nazi political economy
- The Calico Acts: Was British cotton made possible by infant industry protection from Indian competition?
- State Capacity & the Sino-Japanese Divergence
Follow me on Twitter
My TweetsCriticisms of The History Manifesto
Cotton / Slavery Posts
- Baptism by Blood Cotton (critique of Ed Baptist’s book on slavery)
- McCloskey: Cotton wasn't necessary to the Industrial Revolution
- Piketty & Slave Wealth
- Plant breeding drove cotton productivity gains in the US South
- The Baptist Question Redux: Emancipation & Cotton Productivity
- Was slavery necessary to the Industrial Revolution?
Other Posts (Random)
- Did the “Invisible Blockade” against Allende’s Chile work?
- Global Income Distribution in 20 Charts
- Nazi Political Economy
- Economic History Link Dump Splat (15 Jan. 2015)
- Chile’s First Globalisation: Inequality, Frontier Expansion, and Immigration
- Azar Gat's Nations
- Economic Growth in Ancient Greece
- Anachronism & Relevance in History: a comment on Steve Pincus
- The Mystery of US Behaviour in the World
- The "Anthropology" of Financial Crises (Germany in the Great Recession)
- The Little Divergence
- "Experimenting with Social Norms in Small-Scale Societies" (Henrich & Ensminger book)
- Ideology & Human Development (On health & education in developing countries esp. Cuba)
- Edward Said on Bernard Lewis
- "The Great War and Modern Memory" by Paul Fussell
- Conscientiousness & technology
- Proto et al. on intelligence & cooperation
- Markets & Famine: Amartya Sen is not the last word !
- Inequality & the First Globalisation (1870-1914)
- Don't Keep Saying He Didn't Explain England (a note on A Farewell to Alms)
- Ian Morris’s calculations about the ancient Greek economy
- Preindustrial income inequality
- Educational Romanticism & Economic Development
Language Posts
- ελαδιοξιδιολατολαχανοκαρυκευμα (a very brief history of Greek diglossia)
- Polish Illiquidity Preference
- Samples of Greek & Latin "Restored Pronunciation"
- Toponyms & Ethnonyms: A Brief Ramble
- 大東亞共現代性圏 (about “Japanese-made Chinese” words)
- שׂבולת שׂמית (“Shemitic Sibboleth”)
Blogroll
- A Fine Theorem (Kevin Bryan)
- Abandoned Footnotes (Xavier Marquez)
- Adam Tooze
- An Africanist Perspective (Ken Opalo)
- Andrew Batson
- Andrew Gelman
- Andrew Williams
- Anton Howes
- Ben Southwood
- Brad DeLong
- Bradley Hansen
- Branko Milanovic
- Building State Capability
- Cherokee Gothic
- Chinese Economic History
- Chris Blattman
- Cliodynamica (Peter Turchin)
- Crooked Timber
- Dan Allosso (envhist.net)
- Dani Rodrik
- Developing Economics
- Development Book Review
- Doug Campbell
- Economic Growth in History (Nuno Palma)
- Economic History Blog (Latin America)
- Enlightened Economics
- Erik Bengtsson
- Evolving Economics (Jason Collins)
- Growth Economics Blog (Dietz Vollrath)
- Historia contra Economía
- Imperial & Global Forum
- Jared Rubin
- Joe Francis
- Johan Fourie
- Kevin O'Rourke (blog)
- Leo Monasterio
- Logarithmic History
- Marc Bellemare
- Marginal Revolution
- Mark Koyama
- Nada es gratis
- Nathan Lane
- NEP-HIS Blog
- Nintil (Artir)
- Nonso Obikili
- Organizations & Markets
- Papers & Hot Beverages
- Paul Romer
- Pedro Lains
- Politikon (Spanish)
- Positive Check
- Random Critical Analysis
- Razib Khan
- Renato Colistete
- Replicated Typo
- Ricardo Hausmann
- Russian History Blog
- Scholars' Stage (T. Greer)
- Social Evolution Forum Blog
- Steve Hsu
- Stochastic Trend (David I. Stern)
- The Hardest Science (Psychology)
- The Long Run (Economic History Society)
- The Power and the Money (Noel Maurer)
- Thinking Out Aloud (Lorenzo from Oz)
- Tom Pepinsky
- Understanding Society
- Vincent Geloso
- VoxEU
- West Hunter
- West's Meditations
- Why Nations Fail
- World Bank Blogs
Journals & Periodicals
- Annales
- Australian Economic History Review
- Cliodynamics
- Economic & Political Weekly (India)
- Economic History of Developing Regions
- Economic History Review
- EH.net Book Reviews
- European Review of Economic History
- Explorations in Economic History
- Indian Economic and Social History Review
- Irish Economic and Social History
- Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Journal of Comparative Economics
- Journal of Development Economics
- Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- Nature Human Behavior
- Past & Present
- Research in Economic History
- Revista de História Económica
- Rivista de Storia Economica
- Scandinavian Economic History Review
- The Journal of Economic History
- Third World Quarterly
Economic History Links
- Joachim Voth (blog)
- James Fenske
- Finance: Past, Present and Future
- John Nye
- Mark Koyama
- Paola Guiliana
- John Joseph Wallis
- Energy History
- Nippe Lagerlöf
- Ewout Frankema
- Jared Rubin
- Oded Galor
- Timur Kuran
- Hans Joachim Voth
- Tirthankar Roy
- Pasado y Presente
- Debin Ma
- Avner Greif
- Deirdre McCloskey
- Joerg Baten
- Historia Económica
- Alan Macfarlane
- Neil Cummins
- John Komlos
- Kevin O'Rourke
- Ronald Edwards (Song economic history)
- Suresh Naidu
- Noel Johnson
- Stephen Broadberry
- Nathan Nunn
- Robert Allen
- Kent Deng
- Economic History Books
- EH.net
- Joannes Buggle
- Lemin Wu
- African Economic History
- Alan Olmstead
- Measuring Clio
- Paolo Malanima
- Greg Clark
- EH-Valencia
- Victoria Bateman
Economics Links
- Eric Hanushek
- Foco Económico
- Tino Sanandaji
- Daron Acemoglu
- Poor Economics
- Javier Arnaut
- David Cesarini
- Development Research Institute (NYU)
- Branko Milanovic
- Klaus Desmet
- IMF Blog
- Vox LACEA
- DevEconData
- Morten Jerven
- Markus Eberhardt
- Douglas Irwin
- Economonitor
- Alberto Alesina
- James Fenske
- Pam Jakiela
- Tom Westland
- Roving Bandit
- Jayson Lusk
- Poverty Analysis
- Saumitra Jha
- IGC Blog
- Dani Rodrik
- Danny Quah
- Chartbook of Economic Inequality
- William Easterly
- Louis Putterman
- Garett Jones
- Center for Population Economics
- Stelios Michalopoulos
- Enrico Spolaore
- John Williamson
- Macario Schettino
- Lant Prichett
- Francisco Rodriguez
- Terry Burnham
- EconAcademics.org
- Romain Wacziarg
- Centre for the Study of African Economies (blog)
- Nathan Lane
Data
- Penn World Table 7.1
- Clio Infra Project
- Groningen Growth & Development Centre
- SEDLAC
- Macro Data Guide
- Penn World Table 8.0
- Max Roser
- Human Mortality Database
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Latin American Mortality Database
- Piketty Data
- The Numerate Indian
- Luxembourg Income Study
- Atlas of Economic Complexity
- Global Price & Income History
- Billion Prices Project
- UNSTATS
- Harvard World Map
- FRED
- World Economics
- African Health Stats
- Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database
- World Values Survey
- Maddison Project
- Dataverse (Harvard)
- World Bank
- IMF Data
- NBER
Political/Social Science Links
- Craig Willy (English)
- Pláwlotic
- Democracy in Development
- Carles Boix
- Barry Weingast
- Eurasian Studies (blog)
- International Education Statistics (blog)
- La Proa del Argo
- Project Syndicate
- Social Science Evolving
- Geocritiq
- Dart-Throwing Chimp (Jay Ulfelder)
- World Elections
- Demography Matters
- Alexandre Afonso
- The Monkey Cage
- Craig Willy (French)
- Social Evolution Forum Blog
- Social Capital Blog
- Education Realist
- Healthy Lives
- OpenPop.org
- Diego Valle
- Publius Abroad
- Robinson Rojas Archive
- Global Health Blog
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Derecho Mercántil (in Spanish)
- Francesca Jensenius
- James A. Robinson
- Adam Przeworski
- Systemic Peace
History
Genetics, Evolution, Anthropology
Language Links
Other Blogs
Categories
- ancient economic history (2)
- Ancient Greece (2)
- Ancient Greek (3)
- Behavioural economics (1)
- Biblical Hebrew (1)
- books (2)
- Branko Milanovic (2)
- Chile (2)
- China (1)
- Classics (1)
- Cold War (5)
- Cooperation (1)
- cotton (9)
- cotton textiles (6)
- Cultural Evolution (2)
- East Asia (2)
- Economic Anthropology (1)
- Economic Development (1)
- economic growth (2)
- Economic History (16)
- Education (1)
- Edward Baptist (3)
- Emmanuel Todd (1)
- Empire of Cotton (1)
- Environmental Economics (2)
- Ethnicity (1)
- Famines (1)
- fascism (2)
- Financial Crises (3)
- Food (1)
- Foreign Investment (4)
- France (1)
- global history (2)
- great divergence (2)
- Greece (1)
- Health & Economics (1)
- historians of capitalism (7)
- History (5)
- History Manifesto (3)
- Human Development (2)
- import substitution industrialization (2)
- Income distribution (3)
- industrial policy (4)
- Industrial Revolution (8)
- Inequality (6)
- Infant industry argument (4)
- Institutions (2)
- International Monetary Economics (2)
- International Relations (5)
- international trade (1)
- Japan (1)
- Languages (5)
- Latin (1)
- Latin America (1)
- Links (2)
- Literary Criticism (1)
- Middle East & Islam (1)
- Political Development (1)
- Political Economy (5)
- productivity (1)
- protectionism (4)
- Robert Allen (1)
- Slavery (6)
- Social & Civic Capital (2)
- Social Development (1)
- Social Evolution (2)
- Social Science (1)
- Sociometrics (3)
- Sven Beckert (1)
- Technology (2)
- the First Globalization (1)
- The First World War (1)
- The Half has never been told (3)
- trade & development (4)
- U.S. foreign policy (4)
- Uncategorized (7)
Category Archives: Financial Crises
Greece from Postwar Orthodoxy to “Democratic Peronism”
The roots of the present Greek crisis lie in the political transformation of the country during the 1980s. (Disclaimer: Although this post is about Greek fiscal behaviour, I am not taking Germany’s side. Lenders to the profligate are just as culpable as the borrowers.)
Posted in Financial Crises, Greece, Political Economy
21 Comments
The “Anthropology” of Financial Crises
Germany experienced little increase in unemployment during the Great Recession, and has found “internal devaluation” relatively easy and pain-free, unlike most other countries. Why ? Some observations on the role of social capital in financial crises.
Der Todd des Euro
Part 1. The French anthropologist-demographer Emmanuel Todd, who is becoming increasingly fashionable in the Anglosphere, is also a scathing critic of the euro. I examine his “anthropological” views of Germany and the euro, which I also contrast with those of Michael Pettis.
Posted in Emmanuel Todd, Financial Crises, International Monetary Economics
Tagged current account, Emmanuel Todd, Euro, Eurozone, financial crisis, France, Germany, Pettis
12 Comments
