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Tuesday, 23 December 2014

How much better off are we?

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Tyler Cowan has an interesting post: I say I prefer $100k today to $100k in 1964, that being a nominal rather than a real comparison. ...

Changes at Explorations in Economic History

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Kris Mitchener and I are the editors of Explorations in Economic History. Over the last year, we have discussed how to strengthen the journ...
Sunday, 26 October 2014

editing news

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I have been an editor at Explorations in Economic History  for a year and 9 months now, and was an editor at the  European Review of Econom...
Tuesday, 14 October 2014

US declaration of independence shelved

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after UK courts declared the move unconstitutional. George Washington has now announced that there would be a voluntary, pseudo-declaration...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

Low rents

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by government fiat. You don't have to be a genius to figure out that this one is a bad idea. At least, if you had a first college class...

An embarrassment of riches, doctoral student edition

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This year, I have four Ph.D. candidates on the market... and they are terrific. Here are the abstracts of their job market papers: Vick...
Tuesday, 30 September 2014

If Catalans were black...

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people would be outraged about what is happening in Spain. You can hear an interview with me about this (in German) at Swiss Radio here .
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Joachim Voth
Zurich, Switzerland
I hold the UBS Chair in Macroeconomics and Financial Markets. My blog contains updates on research findings, observations on economic policy, and thoughts on research.
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