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Things to read...
C. V. Wedgwood. 1944. William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584. London: Jonathan Cape. <https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209997>
Willem M. Jongman, Jan P.A.M. Jacobs, Geertje M. Klein Goldewijk: Health and wealth in the Roman Empire <https://delong.typepad.com/rome.pdf>
William Lockwood, ed. (1965): The State & Economic Enterprise in Japan <https://archive.org/details/stateeconomicent0000unse_i9r3/>
Willem Jongman (2016) at the Collège de France:
Peter Brown: The World of Late Antiquity
Branko Milanovic, Peter H. Lindert, & Jeffrey G. Williamson: Pre-Industrial Inequality: ‘Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or were pre-industrial incomes as unequal as they are today? This article infers inequality across individuals within each of the 28 pre-industrial societies, for which data were available, using what are known as social tables. It applies two new concepts: the inequality-possibility frontier and the inequality-extraction ratio. They compare the observed income inequality to the maximum feasible inequality that, at a given level of income, might have been ‘extracted’ by those in power. The results give new insights into the connection between inequality and economic development in the very long run
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Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep <https://archive.org/details/fireupondeep0000ving>
Franklin Ford: Robe & Sword: The Regrouping of the French Aristocracy After 1715 <https://archive.org/details/robesword0000fran/mode/1up?view=theater>
Patricia Crone: Pre-Industrial Societies…
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, & Juan David Torres: Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the U.S.-Born, 1850–2020: 'Full-count Census data (1850--1940)… [and] Census/ACS samples (1950--2020)... the first nationally representative long-run series (1850--2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the U.S.-born…. Immigrants had higher incarceration rates than U.S.-born white men before 1870, similar rates between 1880-1950, and lower rates since 1960.... This decline cannot be explained by changes in immigrants' observable characteristics or immigration policy, but may reflect immigrants' resilience to economic shocks...
Yueran Ma & Kaspar Zimmermann: Monetary Policy and Innovation:
Serkan Arslanalp & Barry Eichengreen: Living with High Public Debt:
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John Fernald & Huiyu Li: The Impact of COVID on Productivity and Potential Output:
Gita Gopinath: Panel: How Will the Pandemic and War Shape Future Monetary Policy?:
That paper on crime and immigration was quite interesting. The methodology alone was fascinating. Occupation: prisoner, indeed. Once again, an interesting transition around 1870, something you often remark on.