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"Before the bust the Tulip Mania in the Netherlands in the mid-1630s raised the price of some rare tulip bulbs to [----] guilders each. For comparison the annual wages of a skilled worker then might have been around [---] guilders. (Tontine Coffee-House February 2020) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2024-11-05T06:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In [----] the richest [----] families in the United States - less than 1% of the country's population - owned the same wealth as the remaining [----] million families of the nation combined (PBS October 2023). EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2024-01-01T11:34Z 35.6K followers, [--] engagements

"Prevalence of strong clan ties in China appears correlated with fewer livestock losses during 1955-56 collectivization but associated with higher mortality in the 1959-61 Great Famine. (S. Chen R. Fisman X. Lan Y. Wang Q. Ye May 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2024-06-05T11:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The Spanish Empire's export of gold and silver from its American colonies helped China overcome its scarcity of silver transforming the composition of the local money supply. (Tontine Coffee-House July 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-04-27T16:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The Troubles thirty years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland and beyond might be expected to demonstrate the detrimental impact of political disputes and terrorism on regional financial markets. Irelands financial markets were however surprisingly resilient. (LSE November 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2024-11-22T12:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In medieval England wages paid in-kind may have been a form of insurance for workers against fluctuating price of basic necessities. Cash payments for wage workers became more important starting in the latter decades of the 14th century. (J. Claridge V. Delabstita S. Gibbs September 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2024-12-20T10:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Advanced by the Republican Party the [----] McKinley Tariff Act was unpopular. Its unpopularity combined with the economic downturn prompted by a financial crisis in England contributed to a crushing defeat for the Republican Party in the [----] midterms. (Vox March 2019) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-04T10:35Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements

"The Freedmans Bank a deposit institution chartered by Congress for former enslaved people collapsed in [----]. Black residents living in counties that once had a branch are more likely today to cite mistrust of financial institutions as a reason for being unbanked. (Chicago Booth Review July 2020) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-09T10:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In the United States having a grandparent who was rich in the late 19th and early 20th centuries exponentially increases the likelihood of reaching the top 1%. Still over 90% of the grandchildren of top 1% wealth grandfathers did not achieve that level. (P. Kalsi Z. Ward January 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-13T10:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"After the Civil War formerly enslaved people deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. But the bank collapsed in [----] due to mismanagement by its white administrators. Black depositors were only able to claim about 50% of what they had in their accounts by [----]. (NPR November 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-14T12:20Z 35.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Book categories subjected to stricter censorship by the Chinese state from [----] to [----] including history conflicts and religious studies saw significant declines in publication even after the bans. Only the erosion of state control after [----] triggered a resurgence. (CEPR January 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-15T11:46Z 35.5K followers, [---] engagements

"In [----] Spain established the repblicas de indios in Mexico to separate Indigenous populations from Spanish settlers. Today land plots that overlap with the historical boundaries of these republicas still face a significant land value penalty. (Broadstreet January 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-16T10:50Z 35.5K followers, [---] engagements

"The years spanning [----] to [----] were the most stable period in the history of the US labor market going back nearly [---] years. Meanwhile one of the most disruptive periods for occupational change was between [----] and [----]. (D. Deming C. Ong L. Summers January 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-17T11:30Z 35.8K followers, [---] engagements

"After Monaco began promoting the gambling industry in the 1850s casino operator Socit des Bains de Mer transformed the city state into the premier gambling destination. Their control of utilities infrastructure and hotels around their casinos made them rich. (Tontine Coffee-House January 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-18T11:53Z 37.9K followers, [--] engagements

"Syndicates formed by Tsarist Russian elites were shielded from regulatory scrutiny potentially providing those sectors with stability and coordination during the early stages of industrialization. (LSE January 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-19T10:20Z 35.5K followers, [--] engagements

"Long Term Economic Growth in the United States 1860-1965 (U.S. Department of Commerce October 1966) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-20T10:12Z 35.5K followers, [--] engagements

"President Reagan's success in breaking up the [----] strike by Air Traffic Controllers led to the these workers accepting long hours. This led to higher burnout turnovers and ultimately shortage of this key workforce. (More Perfect Union February 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-21T10:56Z 35.6K followers, [---] engagements

"To develop its business in reinsurance Berkshire Hathaway acquired General Re in [----]. Reinsurance insures other insurance companies. As a long-duration float this money is more suitable to fund longer-term investments. (Tontine Coffee-House February 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-26T11:05Z 37.9K followers, [--] engagements

"The capital market of Manila relied on endowment funds managed by lay associations of religious inspiration. After [----] these endowment funds financed maritime trade as sea loans. (Economic History Society February 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-02-27T10:17Z 35.8K followers, [--] engagements

"During the US Reconstruction era (1865-1879) Treasury Secretary John Sherman pursued a policy mix of protectionism and resumption of gold payments at pre-war parity as a tool to promote his vision of domestic industrialization and capital-intensive agriculture. (S. Valeonti A. Ron March 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-04-19T09:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Until the late 1970s the Federal Reserve primarily focused on regulating excessive credit. Chairman Volckers decision to address broader inflation with aggressive interest rate hikes may have exceeded his mandate. (B. Dinovelli May 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-05-29T10:48Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Ben Bernanke Janet Yellen: Nixon pressured the Fed chair Arthur Burns to keep rates low ahead of the [----] election and provide a short-term economic boost. The result however was stagflation high inflation with weak growth. Fed independence is critically important. (New York Times July 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-07-23T10:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Between 1958-61 1972-73 and 1975-76 the UK and Iceland engaged in a series of confrontations over fishing rights. Icelands suggestion that it might leave NATO and close the US airbase helped prompt a British climbdown. (Chalmermagne April 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-09-21T23:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Review of Andrew Ross Sorkins 1929: The new book does not seek to explain the cause of the Great Depression but looks to reproduce how traders felt when the market began unravelling relentlessly in late [----] (Bloomberg September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-17T17:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Analysis of [--] advanced economies from [----] through [----] finds that delayed and aggressive rate hikes after COVID-19 combined with strong central bank credibility contributed to historically low output losses per unit of disinflation but also a large increase in prices. (NBER September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-09-28T09:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Anton Howes: What Joel Mokyr taught economists through his examination of the Industrial Revolution is that its not knowledge per se that makes the difference but the way it is organized. (Works in Progress October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-30T00:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Before WWII manufacturing in the U.S. south lagged substantially because low human capital and a segmented low-wage labour market limited technology adoption. Reforms to education in the 1930s and 40s triggered rapid catch up with the north. (CEPR September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-18T10:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"When it was established in [----] the Bank of Canada was originally an Imperial Bank with the goal of anchoring Canadas monetary policy to international finance particularly within the British Empire. It was not tasked with domestic matters like inflation. (D. Rohde August 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-19T10:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Nathan Lane: South Koreas push to promote the heavy and chemical industry between [----] and [----] not only increased the comparative advantage of the directly targeted sectors but also left persistent positive effects after the policy ended (The Visible Hand Episode 96) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-21T11:25Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Characterization of the Great Depression as a credit boom gone wrong has much to recommend it as a cautionary tale for policy makers. It supplements other causes like the role of the gold standard the stock market boom and monetary blunders. (B. Eichengreen K. Mitchener September 2003) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-22T10:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Andrea Matranga: The rapid spread of agricultural techniques resulted from increased climatic seasonality causing hunter-gatherers to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and store food for the season of scarcity. (The Visible Hand Episode 95) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-23T13:12Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Research on Argentina's economic rise and fall in the 20th century addressed a multitude of factors ranging from underlying structural flaws and bad trade policies to adverse external shocks. (E. Glaeser R. Di Tella L. Llach September 2017) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-24T10:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"During the [----] Baring Crisis Latin American sovereign bond yield spreads increased by more than [---] basis points relative to the rest of the world even after controlling for macroeconomic trade political-institutional factors (K. Mitchener M. Weidenmier September 2007) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-25T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Argentina implemented [--] stabilization plans beween [----] and [----] that lasted at least [--] months. Successful plans always included monetary and fiscal adjustments while failure always accompanied declining terms of trade. Shock policies have not delivered in the long-term. (E. Ocampo June 2017) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-26T10:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Data revolution starting in the 1960s led to business information firms using ICT to serve clients in the financial industry. Despite growing returns the market remained highly concentrated as only firms offering both financial news and data tended to survive. (G. Bakker July 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-29T10:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The run on Austrias largest bank Creditanstalt began on May [--] [----]. International efforts to save the Bank failed as foreign creditors liquidated their Austrian holdings to replenish their reserves which were imperiled by the expanding banking crisis. (Tontine Coffee-House September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-30T11:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Labor cost did not make Japanese shipbuilders more competitive vis-a-vis international rivals. Complementary financial institutions that insured and assisted with purchases made the country's shipbuilding industry more approachable to buyers. (Micro September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-31T11:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"UK CPI inflation in [----] reached 25% a period now known as the Great Inflation. The lesson from this period is that the fiscal regime matters for inflation and the effective operation of monetary policy. (CEPR September 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-01T11:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Throughout the early modern period European universities and academies established dense webs of interpersonal connections among scholars. These institutionalized networks were a key channel for the spread of knowledge across time and space. (CEPR October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-02T12:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Steve Schifferes: Under Trump [---] we have seen a return to the mercantilist point of view reminiscent of France in the 17th and 18th centuries. For people living in America and elsewhere he is making a bad situation more dangerous. (Conversation October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-03T11:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Entrepreneurs behind the English colony of Virginia had both political and economic objectives. Guilds promoted shares of the project to entice troublesome London residents to emigrate while churches saw it as part of their evangelizing mission (Tontine Coffee-House October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-04T13:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Pre-modern Europe's impersonal legally supported institutions augmented economic development and knowledge accumulation. In pre-modern China interactions were mostly between related individuals slowing down the transition from a local to an impersonal economy. (CEPR October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-05T11:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Friedrich Engels took creative liberties with descriptions of class divides in Manchester. Many middle-class Mancunians did in fact live in the same buildings and streets as those in the working class. (Guardian October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-06T10:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Matthew Smith: Derided by Jefferson as madness the Erie Canal spurred trade that eclipsed freight along the Mississippi River. In addition to commerce the canal facilitated the spread of religious ideas and immigrants. (October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-07T10:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"During the British Railway Mania of the 1840s railway shares were not obviously overpriced even at the market peak but prices still fell dramatically. Extreme asset price reversals can be difficult to forecast and prevent ex ante. (CEPR May 2009) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-08T11:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Between [----] and [----] French cities with railway access experienced 20% rise in the number of factories and workers - especially in labor-intensive sectors. But growth of productivity and wages were negligible particularly in capital-intensive industries. (J. Precetti October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-09T11:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Joel Mokyr has reshaped our understanding of industrialization. His core message: economic progress is critically dependent on open intellectual inquiry on the free exchange of ideas and on a vigorous defence of scientific principles. (CEPR October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-10T11:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Anne Goldgar: Contrary to popular beliefs the 1630s Tulip mania was not a frenzy. For much of the period trading was relatively calm with bulbs mostly trading hands less than five times. The Dutch economy was left completely unaffected. (Conversation February 2018) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-11T12:02Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Review of Malick Ghachems The Colony and the Company." The Mississippi Bubble of 1719-20 spurred the French colony of Haiti to focus its economy around labor-intensive sugar plantations. It set the stage for persistent civic instability and absence of economic alternatives (MIT News August 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-12T11:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In [----] the Swedish government established the Swedish Riksbank to stem a financial panic. The world's first central bank guanrateed the redemption of paper notes and withdrew overissued bank notes from circulation (Bank of England Museum September 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-13T11:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"When foreign sovereign loans turned sour in the 1800s association of British bondholders - incorporated in [----] as the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders - negotiated on behalf of creditors for a settlement and coordinated financial embargoes (Tontine Coffee-House October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-14T12:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Since the beginning of the 20th century equity markets that doubled in real terms in a single year had a 6.9% probability of halving in value the following year and a 17.2% chance of halving in value over the subsequent five years. Not all booms fail. (W. Goetzmann December 2015) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-15T11:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Marketability of an asset availability of credit and speculative nature of the transactions are elements that shape bubbles. Historically when bubbles burst they have resulted in banking crises and/or embed social or legal conventions that stymie business creation (W. Quinn J. Turner July 2020) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-16T11:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Denmark's adoption of the 8-hour workday in [----] increased employment especially among unskilled and female workers. Weekly earnings fell in provincial towns but less so in Copenhagen where union membership was higher and hourly wages rose partly to offset shorter hours. (CEPR November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-17T12:38Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"During the Korean War demand for metal from the arms industry led to the U.S. government reducing the supply of copper to the mint. In response to the resulting shortage of coins a civic campaign emerged to return pennies to banks (FRASER December 2021) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-18T11:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"British America and the early United States used various forms of currency ranging from a belt of shells to pieces of Spanish silver coins and one of the earliest examples of paper money (Townsends July 2021) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-19T12:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Studies of [---] conflicts across [---] countries over the past [--] years suggest real GDP falls by an average of 12% for over [--] years after a conflict. Average nominal currency depreciations are over 100% following war with full price pass--through into the domestic economy. (CEPR November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-20T12:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Before lead paint was banned in late 20th century the discovery and mass-production of titanium-based white paint allowed this safer alternative to outcompeted its lead-based counterpart (Works in Progress October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-21T10:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"If a country lacks sufficiently skilled workers foreign investment can have negative effects. The countrys industrial structure can harden around its static comparative advantages instead of evolving toward higher-value activities (Aeon Essays October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-23T12:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"As music education moved from the household to the conservatory access broadened beyond children of elite musicians. By the 20th century the performance gap between composers from musical families and those without such backgrounds disappearedand in some cases even reversed. (LSE November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-25T12:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The invention of mechanized dishwashers and their adoption required the availability of piped hot water and electricity. When they were widely adopted dishwashers helped reduce weekly housework for married American women from [--] hours in [----] to [--] in [----]. (Works in Progress November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-26T11:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Barry Eichengreen: The U.S. dealt successfully with debt and deficit problems in the decades following World War II and in the 1990s. But fiscal consolidation adopted in these past moment may not be possible in the current political environment. (Peterson Foundation) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-27T11:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Every major bubble since [----] has stemmed from the same key elements John Law focused on: asset marketability abundant money and/or credit and speculation. Once these elements are in place all it takes is a spark to provide an initial increase in prices (Museum of American Finance Spring 2021) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-28T11:35Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In [----] a coalition of European government established Airbus Industrie to compete with Boeing. Centralized control and clear objectives led to the slow but steady success of the company (Works in Progress November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-29T12:54Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"When regions of the Mediterranean adopted iron between [----] and [---] BCE they experienced over a 100% increase in political fragmentation. The abundance of iron allowed poor communities to arm themselves with weaponry comparable to those of the elites armed with bronze. (Broadstreet October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-30T11:31Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Maya cities collapsed when the benefits of urban living no longer outweighed the costs as environments were degraded near cities and climate amelioration improved the livability of rural areas where people would have more freedom and autonomy. (SciTech Daily November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-01T12:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Historically union members earned more per hour than their non-union counterparts. But these benefits are occupation-dependent. Skilled artisans enjoy strong premiums. By contrast semi-skilled workers experiences are inconsistent. (LSE November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-02T11:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Businesses like Socit des Moulins de Bazacle in Toulouse represented one of the earliest examples of a true modern corporation treated as a legally distinct entity from its shareholders. Salaried managers oversaw operations separate from a board of directors (Tontine Coffee-House November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-03T12:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In the 1920s Japanese manufacturers "borrowed" capacity of general trading companies to access foreign markets and brought in engineering talent to absorb useful foreign knowledge. Transformation of a Fukuoka footwear manufacturer into a tire maker is exemplary (T. Learmouth November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-04T11:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"During the Napoleonic Wars French occupation of Antwerp and Amsterdam moved the commercial link between Britain and Europe to Hamburg. This created the conditions for local merchant family Schroders to become financiers (Tontine Coffee-House November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-05T11:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"By [----] internment had reduced the Japanese American population of enumeration districts within the exclusion zone by 2550% relative to their [----] levels. These individuals were replaced by African American in-movers in a nearly 1-to-1 fashion. (M. Saavedra T. Twinam November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-06T12:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Through the mid-19th century land in Britain was bought and sold at a premium because it conferred status. But the social and economic value of land dissipated over the 19th century. (Tontine Coffee-House December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-07T11:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Painting by George Elgar Hicks suggests that Bank of England stockholders in [----] included women and people with a variety of occupations. (Bank of England Museum September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-08T10:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Children of individuals who were exposed to lynchings in the American South experienced as adults in [----] a reduction in their income relative to counterfactual individuals. (L. Condra D. Jones R. Walsh November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-09T11:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Overtaken by Japanese competitors exports of watches from Switzerland fell by 50% between [----] and the early 1980s. Swiss firms survived by embracing luxury and re-engineering new technologies (Works in Progress December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-10T11:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The [----] Model City Program established a framework for cities to coordinate housing education employment health care and social services at the neighborhood level. Although phased out by [----] the program trained a generation of Black and brown civic leaders. (Conversation May 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-11T11:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"A series of addresses studying the Crisis of [----] delivered at Columbia University over the years 1907-1908. (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-12T11:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Between [----] and [----] British industries that relied heavily on machinery and infrastructure were much more likely to pass through multiple stages of the Capital Cycle. Labour-intensive industries like spinning weaving or publishing proved less prone to dramatic swings (LSE December 2025). EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-13T11:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Single-room-occupancy units in New York declined from [------] in [----] to less than [-----] in [----]. The elimination of these more flexible less expensive shared spaces left a significant hole in housing markets. (Richmond Fed 4Q2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-14T11:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Since the 18th century women played a dominant role in processing and curing fish. This complemented the male-dominated fishing industry. Women also provided domestic labor that supported the male workforce (Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage May 2017) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-15T11:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Pushed by the oil crisis to find new export industries and taking advantage of difficulties facing US seminconductor makers the Taiwanese government arranged transfers of semiconductor technology from the United States and built the first demonstration plant. (Asianometry January 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-16T11:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Invention of an integrated circuit called a charge-coupled device which could store an electric charge on a metal-oxide semiconductor led to the creation of the first digital camera prototype by [----] (BBC December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-17T12:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"A post-volcanic climate downturn and trans-Mediterranean famine from 1345-1347 forced the Italian maritime republics to import grain from the Mongols. This prevented starvation but introduced the plague bacterium to Mediterranean and Europe. (M. Bauch U. Buntgen December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-19T02:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Pittsburgh first adopted a citywide split-rate tax in [----] which taxed the land and improvements on the land separately. Pittsburgh experienced a higher level of construction than similar-sized cities in the Midwest that also had low vacancy rates. (Chicago Fed November 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-19T11:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Sweden's tariff increases after [----] had a heterogeneous impact across establishments: initially low-productivity establishments increased their productivity while initially high-productivity establishments experienced a relative decline. (V. Ostermeyer December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-20T11:42Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The European price revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries is one of the earliest episodes of widely-recognized inflation. But inflation rates are not well-predicted either by metal imports from America or by real shocks in the form of disease outbreaks. (G. Smith December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-21T12:15Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"European merchants in China sought marine insurance establishing ad hoc syndicates to provide insurance to one another for particular journeys. As formal insurance companies were founded Hong Kong became a hub for marine fire and other forms of insurance. (Tontine Coffee-House December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-22T11:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In the late 19th century Chinese businessmen became more instrumental to the development of insurance in China. Many firms were collaborations of foreign and domestic insurers and Shanghai emerged as another major hub of the industry alongside Hong Kong. (Tontine Coffee-House December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-23T13:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads (T. Brughmans P. de Soto A. Paout P. Bjerregaard Vahlstrup 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-24T11:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Dana Simmons: For more than [---] years common wisdom and policymakers have assumed that to get people to work you had to make them hungry. Despite its long history there is little proof validating this hypothesis (Guardian December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-25T11:14Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Review of Victoria Bateman's Economica. Women have been looking after the books and managing the financial fortunes of companies for centuries. (PQ Magazine January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-26T11:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Review of Vanessa Williamson's "The Price of Democracy." Throughout American history the possibility that people of moderate means would have a say over the tax system has persistently led wealthy people to undermine governments' democratic practices and fiscal capacity (NPR December 2025). EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-28T11:13Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"During the Industrial Revolution pollution exposure varied significantly by sex and biosocial identity. In industrial South Shields females had markedly higher concentrations of arsenic and barium than both males in their own community and females from an agrarian town. (phys.org December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-29T11:53Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Interview with Sven Beckert author of Capitalism: A Global History. Inequality has existed before capitalism. But within capitalism the forms that inequality has taken have shifted drastically over time. (Literary Hub December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-31T11:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"From the classical to pre-modern era no Southeast Asian polity was able to control the entire maritime route stretching from the South China Sea into the Bay of Bengal. Nonetheless maritime trade continued to flourish. (Aeon October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-01T12:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Facing competition from IBM in the computer market and unwilling to be forced into mergers Japanese electronics companies voluntarily joined a research and development consortium to improve integrated circuit production. This consortium made significant breakthroughs (Asianometry March 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-02T11:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The Japanese Productivity Program was an initiative to transfer US management and industrial knowledge to Japan. The program helped firms grow in scale and management sophistication laying the foundation for Japans emergence as a leader in industrial efficiency by the 1980s. (CEPR December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-03T11:58Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Coins as primary sources. Scotland acquires the earliest known coin to be minted in Scotland. These coins were dated to the second half of the 1130s. (BBC December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-04T11:36Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Bobbi Sutherland: Medieval European peasants probably enjoyed their holiday festivities more than you do. Christmas itself was known for feasting and drunkenness and it lasted nearly six weeks. (Conversation December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-05T11:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Review of Sven Beckerts Capitalism Capitalisms permanent revolution Beckert writes produces both dynamism and instability. (Guardian December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-06T11:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The experience of Argentina between [----] and [----] suggests expansion of pre-primary education can generate sizable improvements in human capital and demographic outcomes at relatively low fiscal cost. (S. Berlinski et al. December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-07T11:19Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"A new climate study argues that a run of severe drought across parts of Eastern Europe coincided withand may have helped shapethe Mongol Empires rapid westward expansion in the 1230s. (Medievalist December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-08T11:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Chinas insurance industry entirely disappeared with the Cultural Revolution. It was only revitalized in [----] and a private insurer emerged by [----]. (Tontine Coffee-House December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-09T11:16Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The [----] discovery of natural gas in eastern Indiana spurred manufacturing growth in the region that persisted for nearly a century. Constraints in transportation that forced industry to come to the region appear to play a role in the sustained manufacturing growth. (A. Abraham November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-10T11:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"American oil majors never owned the oil in Venezuela as Trump claims. The dispute between Exxon/Conoco and Caracas was over the terms of profit-sharing from joint development of Venezuelan oil fields. (Planet Money January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-11T12:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"At around [--] cents a gallon gas prices at U.S. pumps in [----] was hardly crippling by today's standards. But to a country that assumed that cheap gas was an American birthright the oil crisis was a real shock (BBC December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-12T11:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The Nixon tapes show that President Richard Nixon pressured Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns to engage in expansionary monetary policies in the run-up to the [----] election. (B. Abrams 2006) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-13T11:52Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Michael Bordo: The Fed began pursuing countercyclical policies in [----] with a focus on low inflation. In the 1960s the Feds focus shifted to ensuring high employment. The Great Inflation pushed the Fed to focus again on inflation in the 1970s. (Cleveland Federal Reserve December 2007) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-14T11:57Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Anton Howes: In response to claims to the English throne from a pretender in the Low Countries Henry VII banned the export of unfinished cloth to the Low Countries in [----]. This backfired when the Low Countries retaliated with a total ban on cloth imports from England. (January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-15T12:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Episodes of high inflation which carry high economic costs are nothing new and instead a recurrent feature in U.S. history. But in the post-WWII era these periods of high inflation were not followed by prolonged deflation. (St. Louis Fed July 2017) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-16T11:59Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"During the financial panic of [----] J. Pierpont Morgan was glorified in the public eye for leading Wall Street out of a crisis. But by [----] Morgan's public image suffered as the concentration of economic power around him was characterized as a threat. (K. Peeler April 2010) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-17T12:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In the wake of the Panic of [----] and heightened public resentment towards the banking class banker Paul M. Warburg covertly established the National Citizens League in order to educate the public on the proper principles of sound monetary reform. (L. Chen April 2010) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-18T12:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In the 1700s the French monarchy expanded its horse-post network to improve the states information capacity. But increased state presence may have also spurred greater civil unrest (Broadstreet January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-19T11:27Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"New Orleans was the premier banking center of the pre-Civil War South. During the Civil War the city was ravaged by a shortage of money. The municipal government issued small denomination notes while new banks had to be established to relieve the city (Tontine Coffee-House January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-20T11:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"By forcing carbonated water into dough under high pressure John Dauglish discovered in the 1850s that bread could be made to rise without the need for yeast fermentation or traditional kneading. This swiftly disrupted the commercial baking industry. (Works in Progress January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-24T11:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"In 18th-century Prussia non-profit cooperatives offered mortgage credit for the rural economy devastated by the Seven Years War. These cooperatives issued bonds which were traded in secondary markets. (Tontine Coffee-House January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-25T11:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Climatic changes and an increase in extreme weather events were key factors in the collapse of the Tang dynasty in [---] CE. (Phys.org January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-26T11:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Webinar April [--] [----] (17:00-18:00 Geneva Time/11:00 - 12:00 US EDT): Banking Crises Interventions 1290-2018 EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-07-30T16:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Slavery itself created a multitrillion-dollar racial wealth gap. Following emancipation the U.S. government often excluded Black Americans from policies that aimed to facilitate the ownership of assets and the accumulation of wealth (Bloomberg May 2021) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-13T01:11Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"40 years after Eric Williamss death British people are finally waking up to his argument that slavery was abolished in much of the empire in [----] because doing so at that time was in its economic self-interest not because the British suddenly discovered a conscience. (Guardian January 2022) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2022-02-06T12:12Z 35.5K followers, [---] engagements

"Depending on ones relationship to the monetary regime in colonial America coining could either appear as a threat to the ruling order that undermined public trust in the currency or a creative solution to the shortage of specie across much of the Atlantic world. (Common Place August 2022) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2022-09-02T11:34Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Event Announcement: The rise of self-made women (Virtual Economic History Seminar October [--] 2022) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2023-09-21T11:45Z [--] followers, 44.2K engagements

"Innovations that drove American growth in the late 19th century were developed for a large market with abundant natural resources inappropriate for Britain with its elastic supplies of skilled workers and scarcer inputs. (Works in Progress July 2022) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2024-10-22T23:57Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Starting in the 1880s southern US states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans while withholding broader redistributive programs. Patterns suggest this consciously courted the vote of Confederate veterans while withholding relief from southern Blacks. (S. Eli L. Salisbury December 2016) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-06T17:33Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"South Africas exit from gold secured an unparalleled and rapid recovery from the Great Depression. Had South Africa not devalued the country would have suffered a severe depression and persistent deflation. (C. Swanepoel P. Fliers September 2021) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-07-31T17:06Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"In [----] an overleveraged short against the East India Company triggered bank failures in Britain. The resulting credit crunch led to the EIC facing liquidity issues which the government chose to address by allowing tax-free shipment of tea to America. (Tontine Coffee-House December 2019) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2023-11-19T12:12Z [--] followers, 47.2K engagements

"In 15th-century England a shortage of physical currency led to a credit crunch. This in turn brought trade and industry to a standstill. (Tontine Coffee-House March 2020) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-19T09:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"During the Great Depression the province of Alberta issued CAD [--] notes that holders had pay one cent per week to keep the value of the notes. This was intended to discourage the hoarding of money and improve its circulation (Tontine Coffee-House August 2020) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-12T02:56Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The introduction of silver tael as a standard numeraire in the states accounting system enabled China's central government to measure incomes and expenditures in local administration and to predict and monitor local spending with rigid regulations on the use of tax resources. (Z. Liu 2021) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2024-09-02T08:28Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The century-long unfolding of the first Industrial Revolution suggests that the economic and social changes from the adoption of artifical intelligence may also take a long time to emerge. But the labor share of income in knowledge sectors are already falling. (Planet Money September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-30T13:18Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The US housing bubble that peaked in the mid 1920s certainly contributed to the eventual Depression. But it was the Depression itself that pushed foreclosures to reach their heights. (Tontine Coffee-House September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-17T10:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Faced with a bank run during the French Revolution the Bank of England suspended convertibility of its notes into gold. While many criticized the issuance of banknotes without specie backing some argued that paper money could be safely used without inflation (Tontine Coffee-House October 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-20T14:46Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Christopher Clarke: Upholding the gold standard contributed to exacerbating the economic downturn during the Great Depression. Short answers to questions about the Great Depression (Wired November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-24T12:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"When short sellers placed a bet against the grocery chain Piggly Wiggly in [----] the companys founder countered by acquiring shares. This succeeded in forcing short sellers to accept losses but the founder went bankrupt as well. (Tontine Coffee-House December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-21T11:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"A new long-term analysis shows that people who experienced sudden changes in food affordability during early childhood as a consequence of the Asian Financial Crisis are more likely to experience altered growth and health patterns in adulthood. (SciTechDaily January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-22T12:07Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In the 1960s Westinghouse diversified away from its core business of turbines electrical systems and nuclear reactors because of tough competition with GE. But its new subsidiaries weighed down company performance in the long run. (Asianometry January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-23T12:06Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Between [----] and [----] a marked increase in English workers moved away from agriculture to manufacturing. Apprenticeships played a significant role in this transformation by serving as an avenue for migration and knowledge. (LSE November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-28T12:43Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"British crown was worlds largest buyer of enslaved people by [----] book reveals (Guardian January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-29T11:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Tariff revenues on the imported commodities produced by enslaved plantation workers gave all Nova Scotians and not just the merchants who made personal profits an intimate if indirect interest in allowing the brutality of West Indian slavery to persist. (NiCHE November 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-30T11:39Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"While communism did lead to higher upward mobility strong welfare systems in Western Europe and bureaucratic shortcomings in Eastern Europe created a landscape where equality in welfare distribution was broadly similar (CEPR September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-31T12:00Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The use of ARPANET prototype for the internet was initially limited. But concerns that the US was falling behind in the application of supercomputers led to the government expanding US universities' access to supercomputers through a network. This birthed the internet (Asianometry December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-01T12:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Many Victorian cities grew by tenfold in a century. Although cities were materially poor and technologically primitive compared to today their institutions were often sufficiently flexible vigorous and creative to address the challenges of growth. (Works in Progress January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-02T14:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"French communities with higher per-capita taxes had more riots between [----] and [----]. Complaints compiled for the [----] Estates General from communities overburdened by taxes also emphasized their unequal incidence across social groups. (Broadstreet January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-03T11:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"When Quebecs farms struggled in the late 19th century due to US tariffs cooperative banks called caisses populaire emerged to mobilize local savings and provide loans to working people (Tontine Coffee-House January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-04T17:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"David Oks: Endemic presence of malaria in southern and central western Italy promoted the use of forced labor and land inequality in antiquity. This basic pattern persisted through history causing low human capital development and industrialization. (November 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-05T11:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"US laws in the 1920s sharply curtailed immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe. Even after taking the effects of Great Depression into account these laws reduced upward occupational mobility among US-born white men by [----]. (J. Feigenbaum Y. Hung M. TabelliniM. Tomasella January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-06T15:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In the inter-war years the British Metals Corporation acquired strategic metallic ores on behalf of the British Empire with a network of industrialists politicians and civil servants. Their work proved critical to Britain's performance in WWII. (A. Perchard R. MacLeod J. Mouat January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-07T11:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"A review of U.S. bank failure rates since [----] reveals that some panics in the sector were not full-blown financial crises while there were also episodes when no panic occurred that could potentially be considered crises. (E. Hilt January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-10T11:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The triple contract was devised in early modern Italy to sidestep scrutiny of interest-bearing loans. A lender would guarantee returns by taking out insurance or by acquiring an interest in the business that would be acquired back by the borrower later. (Tontine Coffee-House February 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-11T11:04Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Between [----] and [----] areas of France with heavier taxes experienced more riots. When the Revolution began deputies from heavily taxed constituencies were more likely to demand the abolition of the monarchy and vote for the kings execution. (T. Giommoni G. Loumeau M. Tabellini February 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-12T12:25Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Israel and the UK were two relatively early adopters of inflation-linked bonds. These securities can give a second chance to states looking to borrow over longer time horizons. They also better serve certain investors like pension funds. (Tontine Coffee-House February 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-13T12:03Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"When the imminent collapse of the hedge fund LTMC threatened market stability the Federal Reserve facilitated a rescue without lending its own funds. Creditors put up the funds mitigating moral hazard concerns that might have arisen had public funds been used. (Federal Reserve November 2013) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-08-27T09:29Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Review of Andrew Sorkin's [----]. Right before the crash of [----] American financial and political elite were convinced that the Federal Reserve was being too cautious and far too willing to spoil the party. (Conversation December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-27T11:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The US government loaned [--] railroads over $1.1 billion between [----] and [----]. This reduced firm debt but did not significantly impact bond default. This also had little effect on employment but they did increase the average wage of railroad employees. (L. Moore G. Verdickt December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-15T12:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Even as creditworthiness of Argentine assets declined abroad in [----] Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires continued to lend domestically because they believed that the state would bail them out. But the state could not keep borrowing to bail out banks (G. della Paolera A. Taylor January 2001) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-27T11:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"After the [----] Barings Crisis Argentina adopted decisive reforms with clear-eyed recognition of the political and economic trade-offs of reestablishing hard currency conversion. The Argentine peso returned to the gold standard in [----]. (G. della Paolera A. Taylor January) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-28T11:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Gustavo Ventura: Argentina's economic miracle in the late 19th century and early 20th century was the result of political stability and openess to immigration which allowed the economy to fully realize its comparative advantage (U Penn March 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-11-22T12:17Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The Gold Standard began in Britain and other countries adopted it to boost confidence in their currencies. It was seen as a vital component of stabilizing world trade but it constrained governments' responses to financial crises. Notably it prolonged the Great Depression (BBC January 2022) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-03-07T10:03Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The recent action by a consortium of banks to deposit money in First Republic Bank harkens back to an earlier attempt to counter bank runs: the U.S. Postal Savings system. (Fortune March 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-09-07T14:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Following Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War the country lost access to its traditional money printing operations in Europe. The new Iraqi dinar however was not accessible in northern Iraq which led to half the country continuing to use a nominally worthless money (Tontine Coffee-House January 2019) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2024-11-24T13:49Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"From counterfeiting to inflation the problems associated with paper money were all experienced when China first started dabbling in this new monetary order a thousand years ago. (Tontine Coffee-House April 2019) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-20T20:00Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Although Somalia entered into a state of anarchy in the 1990s the Somali shilling continued to circulate for years after. In the face of counterfeiting and the circulation of foreign currencies the shillings value declined - but at a measured pace. (Tontine Coffee-House September 2020) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-06-17T12:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The United States Postal Savings System evolved from serving non-farming immigrant populations for short-term savings then as a safe haven during the Great Depression and finally as long-term investment for the wealthy in the 1940s. (S. Schuster M. Jaremski E. Perlman May 2019) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-09-07T18:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"During the 1630-1631 plague letters and goods transactions of the Florentine merchant-bank Saminiati & Guasconi with merchants living in infected towns decreased by two-thirds. This shows how Italian trade moved away from the emerging Atlantic coast economies. (R. Elliott November 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-03-08T11:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Black Death reshaped labor markets but not uniformly. Core roles like ploughmen and carters experienced wage stagnation after the plague. Other roles which had been more peripheral before the Black Death experienced wage growth. (J. Claridge S. Gibbs April 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-05-25T11:35Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Jordan Claridge: After the Black Death killed 50-60% of the English population in the 14th century England's agricultural sector adapted to the subsequent labor scarcity by using more horses in farming and raising more grazing animals (Institute of Economic Affairs March 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-07-11T11:29Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"As Japanese home demand for automobiles fell with the economic slump in the 1990s Nissan failed to adapt to consumer demand for cheaper or diverse offerings. Meanwhile Toyota responded more nimbly. (Asianometry February 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-09-09T11:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"From the Middle Ages through to modernity England was exceptional in its use of working horses. Initially demesnes relied on external supply of working horses procured through a local network of peasants. In-house breeding would not emerge until the late 15th century (J. Claridge September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-10-17T11:23Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Interview with Andrew Sorkin author of [----]. Even after the big market crashes between October and November of [----] the stock market was only down 17% by the end of the year. Taxes tariffs and austerity in [----] aggravated the economic slump. (NPR December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-12-30T11:39Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"In the late 1890s the US bond market entered a two-decade-long malaise that could not have been reliably predicted by investors. (Tontine Coffee-House January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-01-27T11:50Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The United Fruit Company challenged Guatemala's attempt to redistribute land to its rural population in [----]. The company used its ties to U.S. government to overthrow Guatemala's democratically-elected government. Decades of unrest and armed conflict followed. (Cogito December 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-08T11:20Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"President Andrew Jackson believed his [----] re-election was a mandate for pursuing all of his policy preoccupations. This presumption was challenged by Congress when the Jackson administration sought to remove federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. (Liberal Currents September 2025) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-09T11:40Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Britains break from gold in [----] reduced the unemployment rate by 2.7% for export-intensive industries relative to non-export industries. At the aggregate level this effect stimulated the labor market the fiscal outlook and economic growth. (J. Lennard M. Paker January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-14T12:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"In the 1920s networks of British business leaders in the mining and metals sector pursued strategic control of global strategic minerals on behalf of the British Empire. This demonstrated how commercial interests could act on behalf of the state. (A. Perchard R. MacLeod J. Mouat January 2026) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-16T11:11Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Women in Central Europe during the late Middle Ages played a crucial role in the establishment and development of private annuities as a form of borrowing and facilitated religious organizations to become large lenders. (A. Molnar July 2024) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2026-02-17T11:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"Building and Loan Associations (B&Ls) financed over half of new houses constructed in the U.S. during the 1920s. But government-insured Postal Savings System attracted funds away from B&Ls during the Great Depression (S. Fleitas M. Jaremski S. Schuster October 2022) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2025-09-07T13:12Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"The Swiss success story in the 19th century is unimaginable without Credit Suisse which was founded to finance a railway network across the Alpine nation linking northern and southern Europe. (Financial Times March 2023)"
Reddit Link 2023-03-27T10:12Z 32.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Economists predicted that competitive private enterprise in coinage would fail because of their incentive to issue substandard coins. But historical case studies from three American gold rushes show that private mints did not need to produce substandard coins to profit (EHS June 2021)"
Reddit Link 2021-07-11T12:12Z 32.3K followers, [--] engagements

"Anton Howes: In early 17th century England patents for innovation in transporting seafood included a monopoly on supplying lobsters to the London market. This created tensions between the lobster monopoly and London fish mongers (February 2023)"
Reddit Link 2023-02-20T11:34Z 32.3K followers, 46.1K engagements

"Between [----] and the Civil War approximately [------] enslaved men women and children were forcibly relocated within the United States. This database provides an overview of where the migrations took place. (American Panorama)"
Reddit Link 2023-02-23T12:01Z 32.3K followers, 49.6K engagements

"Hannah Farber: Leveraging the high risk of Atlantic commerce during the many wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries American merchant insurance companies provided valuable capital to their nascent republic and elevated its creditworthiness. (American Revolution Institute January 2022) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2023-03-05T12:12Z 33.1K followers, 47.5K engagements

"Between [----] and [----] capital accumulation in Prussia led to growing income inequality - but trade unions and strike activity limited further worsening of income inequality and fostered political support for socialism. (C. Bartels F. Kersting N. Wolf January 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2023-03-06T09:23Z [--] followers, [---] engagements

"Scandinavian scientists say that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in [----]. (AP March 2023)"
Reddit Link 2023-03-11T12:01Z 32.3K followers, 50.4K engagements

"From its establishment in [----] Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire hired whole families for its workforce. This meant that young children as young as five from desperate families worked long hours in the mills. (History Hits March 2023)"
Reddit Link 2023-03-28T10:12Z 31.3K followers, 46.3K engagements

"While U.S. national interests are often blamed for sinking Keyness proposal for a global central bank and currency at Bretton Woods this plan would have required unprecedented capital controls that would have constituted a violation of sovereignty for many countries. (LSE March 2023)"
Reddit Link 2023-03-29T10:12Z 32.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Dependence on foreign oil to satisfy American energy needs acts as a major economic vulnerability for the country. (Atlanta Federal Reserve November/December 1979)"
Reddit Link 2023-04-04T11:01Z 32.3K followers, 45.9K engagements

"Aggressive whaling in the Bering Strait during the 19th century led to an ecological crisis that led to a series of famines and general social crises for the local Yupik and Iupiat communities. (Resources for the Future March 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2023-04-15T10:30Z 35.6K followers, 46.7K engagements

"The U.S. energy crisis of the 1970s forced American leaders and researchers to come up with solutions in policymaking technology and architecture. (History October 2022)"
Reddit Link 2023-04-19T10:12Z 32.3K followers, 46K engagements

"Mechanization of industry is directly linked to the growth of whaling in the 19th century. People discovered that oil from sperm whales acted as a particularly good all-temperature lubricant for machines inducing excessive marine mammal exploitation. (99% Invisible March 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2023-05-11T10:02Z [--] followers, [--] engagements

"The efficacy of US sanctions has declined over time. (Teen Vogue May 2023)"
Reddit Link 2023-05-27T10:23Z 32.3K followers, 44.8K engagements

"Between [----] and [----] U.S. banks responded to the severe panics by refusing to exchange cash for their liabilities. Banks that were members of private clearing houses were legally united into a single entity to share the risk premium during these suspensions. (G. Gorton E. Tallman February 2016)"
Reddit Link 2023-06-04T09:23Z 32.3K followers, 45.1K engagements

"The Hidden Chemicals Destroying American Farms (2023) - Underreported dumping of PFAS in Michigan is contaminating land water and meat with carcinogens 00:42:47"
Reddit Link 2023-06-10T17:39Z 32.3K followers, 301.7K engagements

"On the [----] recorded slaving voyages leaving Liverpool from [----] to [----] [------] people were trafficked from Africa to the Americas [-----] of whom died during the voyage. Liverpool was one of [--] ports with ships embarking on these voyages during this period. (Guardian March 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2023-06-17T10:02Z 36.9K followers, 47.7K engagements

"Created to support the formerly enslaved the Freedman's Bank was liquidated in [----] due to mismanagement. Half the depositors received no compensation whatsoever - the resulting loss of trust in the financial sector impeded Black America's process of wealth accumulation. (Cabinet October 2020)"
Reddit Link 2023-06-18T10:12Z 32.3K followers, 46.8K engagements

"During Germany experience with inflation between [----] and [----] firms with higher nominal liabilities at the onset experienced larger declines in interest expenses and higher employment during the inflation. (M. Brunnermeier S. Correia S. Luck E. Verner T. Zimmermann June 2023) EconomicHistory EconomicHistory"
Reddit Link 2023-06-26T09:43Z 33.9K followers, [--] engagements

"During the 1970s and 80s the East German state established special stores for outsiders to harvest foreign currency from tourists (and locals withholding Western currency). The hard currency financed imports complementing exports and external borrowing. (Tontine Coffee-House April 2019)"
Reddit Link 2023-06-27T09:55Z 32.3K followers, 45.3K engagements

"In Britain the formation of the oldest insurance companies coincided with the South Sea Bubble an early-18th century speculative boom in the shares of many of the worlds first joint-stock companies some of which were these early insurance firms. (Tontine Coffee-House April 2019)"
Reddit Link 2023-06-30T10:12Z 32.3K followers, 45.5K engagements

"Andrew Jackson had railed against the use of the national bank for political purposes. But he was more than willing to grant special privileges to state-chartered banks particularly those that were "in hands politically friendly." (Richmond Fed 2Q2023)"
Reddit Link 2023-07-03T10:23Z 32.3K followers, 45K engagements

"Records of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company the first federally chartered bank for Black Americans established at the end of the U.S. Civil War (FRASER)"
Reddit Link 2023-07-05T10:23Z [--] followers, 44.8K engagements

"The attempt to corner the U.S. gold market in [----] endangered the economic wellbeing of a nation just emerging from civil war - but little price was paid by the conspirators. (Tontine Coffee-House May 2019)"
Reddit Link 2023-07-07T10:12Z 32.3K followers, 45.4K engagements

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