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my book with Peter Temin on banking and the Industrial Revolution will be out later this year. We are just finalizing the cover and waiting ...

in the space + time continuum: I have just spent a few days writing tenure letters. It's hugely interesting... you get to read pretty in...

I am visiting the Fed in Minneapolis, giving talks there and at the university. A lot of fun, especially since they don't really "d...

at predicting anything... so here is a bank that uses this often-lamented fact for advertising purposes (featuring Tom Sargent, really!):

It's normally not a good sign for the politics/economics of the Eurozone + stability of financial markets when I start to get interview ...

Sometimes, I wonder about the disconnect between the time-scale of human life on the one hand, and of academia on the other. I have one pape...

Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany: How persistent are cultural traits? Using data on an...