Professor at UBC VSE. Economic History, photography, food.
An excellent articulation. This will become required reading for all my PhD students (even though I am in the “no-table-of-contents-paragraph” camp 😁).
Tatyana DeryuginaWriting a paper introduction is more art than science, but a good formula gets you most of the way there. Today's blog post: a paragraph-by-paragraph template that is used pretty commonly, plus the mistakes I see most often. 🧵 #EconSky deryugina.com/a-two-for-on...
New article in early view at RHE-JILAEH! Together with David González-Agudo and Valentina Ramírez, we reconstruct the cost of housing in Toledo between 1489 and 1810. This is one of the longest such series in existence anywhere in the world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The cost of housing in the very long run: Toledo, 1489–1810 | Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History | Cambridge CoreThe cost of housing in the very long run: Toledo, 1489–1810www.cambridge.orgRan Abramitzky created this amazing family tree of our advisor, Joel Mokyr. Explore a variety of astounding metrics of Joel's scholarly reach, including his 78 direct students, an additional 304 scholars in successive generations, and over 200K google cites! polite-baklava-a95d7b.netlify.app
Celebrating 80 Years of Joel MokyrA private website for Joel Mokyr's 80th birthday celebration.polite-baklava-a95d7b.netlify.appAll you ever wanted to know about bread production, prices, markets, and political economy in early modern Spain, now on Early View! "The Bread of Toledo", Joint with David González Agudo at @uv.es. Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ehr....
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryWe study the market for common white bread in the city of Toledo through a new 266-year-long series of bread prices, obtained from the cash purchases and wholesale bread-for-wheat contracts of large ...doi.orgCongratulations to Sara Benetti from @ubcvse.bsky.social, winner of the @echistsoc.bsky.social New Researcher Prize for her paper on the social consequences of technological change! economics.ubc.ca/profile/sara...
Sara Benetti - Vancouver School of Economicseconomics.ubc.caMany believed that reductions in life expectancy brought about by COVID would be temporary. This struck me as naive. COVID was a new, poorly understood disease with unknown long-term consequences. Six years later, all the data suggest that such optimism was unjustified.
Jenn Dowd1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
I suspect that a good half of the support for permanent DST comes from people that do not understand how the distribution of daylight will actually change. That 90% approval (from a question in which permanent standard time was not an option) will tank hard in the winter of 2027.
Kevin Milligan"Slam dunk" until people realize their kids will go to school in the dark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permane...
Were you planning to get any actual work done today? I'm here to save you from such a dreary fate.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret DevereauxThis week on the blog! By request of the ACOUP Senate (that is, patrons on Patreon at the patres et matres conscripti level), a very brief introduction to the Late Bronze Age Collapse, a collapse even more severe than the fall of the Roman Empire in the west! acoup.blog/2026/01/30/c...