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Final maths exam next week… here we go!

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Some absolutely fantastic Grossberg paintings here

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This week’s review! - finishing up my look at Cain and Hopkins’ British Imperialism, on the 20th century. There’s something for everyone - expansion, decline, Sterling, and Eurodollars!

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Economic historians getting creative

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The Apple Music Classical app has no right being as good as it is

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This week’s review! — part one of my look into Cain and Hopkin’s monumental book, British Imperialism 1688-2015. Gentlemanly capitalism, services, and who ran the British Empire (supposedly)…

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For this week’s review, I read @jamestwotree.bsky.social’s new history of Taiwanese agrarian development at home and abroad, In the Global Vanguard. Land reform, Africa, and Straw Hat Diplomats!

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This week’s review! — something a little bit different (and more light-hearted) to wrap up my focus on interwar monetary history, for now. Liaquat Ahamed’s very entertaining if dubious Lords of Finance!

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The right to watch television should be conditional on first having seen Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation. The Peano axioms of culture.

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More brilliant Minard flow-maps — here we have the impact of the American Civil War on European Cotton Imports! I can’t get enough…

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This week’s review — my brief reflections on Charles Kindleberger’s World in Depression 1929-1939. I couldn’t resist thinking about our present moment… a very timely read! (With unavoidable reference to @adamtooze.bsky.social and @delong.social)

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Fantastic paintings from an artist I had never heard from before. The art is what keeps bringing me back to chartbook - helps break me out of my futurism/expressionism shell!

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You can’t help but fall in love with Charles Joseph Minard’s flow maps! The godfather of data visualisation.

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This week’s review! - on Charles Kindleberger’s unrealised vision for the dollar system, according to Perry Mehrling.

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This week’s review! - on how a changing money market changed central banking, according to Perry Mehrling. Check it out!

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Central bankers need to bring back the pointy beards! Adds mystique befitting a bearer of arcane knowledge… how could anyone believe in CBI if they don’t look a little bit like wizards? (Pictured: Montagu Norman and Rudolf Havenstein)

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Alright I thought no one could match Braudel in retro-chart game but Kindleberger gives it a red hot crack…

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Does this debate exist online? I can’t seem to find it, but if it does, it is surely the econ version of Chomsky-Foucault!

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Bretton Woods, capital controls, and collective action…. my thoughts on Eric Helleiner’s States and the Reemergence of Global Finance!

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Time for urgently reading Eric Monnet — or at least, the review of his book I wrote about a month ago ;)

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Likely the most scattered review I’ve written of late, but hopefully interesting nonetheless! On the spread of the central bank and what the BIS might have been.

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My review of Barry Eichengreen’s Globalizing Capital — well, the first third of it, but with an eye to reading international monetary history on the most abstract level. On why the gold standard could never be replicated…

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For my first review of the year, I read Èric Monnet’s Balance of Power! On what needs to be done with central bank independence.

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For something a little bit different than usual, I’ve reviewed Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War! Grossman, suffering, hatred, and Gaza.

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[Perry Mehrling voice:] “Consider: You’re amphibiously landing but there’s no water – you’re dead. It’s all about liquidity.”

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Isaac Newton accidentally inventing the Gold Standard is one of those facts which has no right being true

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Don’t know why I find this surprising but I do… nineteenth century swap lines

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Monnet’s Balance of Power is fantastic — not just great economic history, but also a great manifesto!

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The things you could think in 2007…. My review of Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing! Can Smith explain Chinese development? Probably not. But maybe?

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My brief review of Giovanni Arrighi’s The Long Twentieth Century — on modelling Braudel, trends and cycles, and Tooze’s recent critique!

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Finally seen throne of blood and it is an improvement on Macbeth in every way — lady Macbeth is cogent, the ‘ripped untimely from the womb’ is cut, and the trees and castle bit works much better

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Stalingrad, Life and Fate, The Unwomanly Face of War… all brilliant and harrowing. But still the strangest thing to me is that the main subsistence food of those who fought, killed and died at and around Stalingrad was… watermelons! The least harrowing of all melons.

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People in Aus/NZ got really quite worried about the Russian Pacific Fleet in the 1880s — which is silly because they really needn’t have! Not exactly the world’s most storied naval force…

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Considering Mexican real wages, the "but Sheinbaum" retort doesn't seem to do all that much damage to the "incumbents-hammered-by-inflation" hypothesis. No one is saying that inflation hammers regardless of what happens to real wages.

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Finally wrapped up Capitalism and Civilisation with a review of the third and final instalment, The Perspective of the World. Genoa and the 1970’s…. read and enjoy!

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As an Australian I would like to ask the UN to please let us swap our Albanese for their superior Albanese

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One day, the Ljung-Box-Jenkins-Pierce-Akaike-Dickey-Johansen-Granger test statistic will solve all our problems, I’m sure of it

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