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Professor, University of Manchester. Fellow ICS-UL. Director @ArthurLewisLab. Economic History, Growth & Development, Macro, Political Economy. ๐ช๐บ ๐ต๐น๐ป๐๐ธโต
Manchester, England
Joined April 2015
Who disembarked more slaves in the Americas? โ๏ธNo, it was not the British! โ
It was Portugal/Brazil. Keep this in mind next time you hear that somehow slavery was responsible for the Industrial Revolution. The evidence we have is that all that slavery in fact made Brazil poorer๐
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RT @ArthurLewisLab: ๐จ Next week at the @ArthurLewisLab ๐จ Greg Clark (SDU) "Immobile Britannia" @uomsoss @ManUniEconomics
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RT @ArthurLewisLab: Rebecca Simson @rebecca_simson (Oxford) is now presenting her paper โWealth Inequality in Postcolonial Kenya (and Southโฆ
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And I won't even mention the "creative accounting" going on in many European countries whereby expenses which shouldn't really count as "military investments" (e.g. police or pensions) as being bundled as such. The probability doesn't seem huge yet, but...
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RT @markomihkelson: Russiaโs undeclared war against the West is already underway, and the stubborn refusal to acknowledge this fact by mostโฆ
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RT @ArthurLewisLab: Joe Francis @joefrancis505 (Birmingham) is now presenting his paper โLies, Damn Lies, and Argentine GDP Statistics Reviโฆ
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RT @BBCSteveR: I asked Alexander Lukashenko: โHow can you call this a democratic election when your main rivals are in prison or in exile?โโฆ
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RT @HistoryExtra: The trading federation used bribes and the threat of war to advance its interests โ Sheilagh Ogilvie explores the murky mโฆ
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The "quote tweet" feature can be rather annoying when people misrepresent or simply misunderstand what you're saying! It forces you to respond (if you happen to have read it...) or just ignore it, letting misinformation spread...
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In turn, of course, job opportunities for PhD students graduating with an expertise in economic history is also naturally dwindling fast. Much talent is being lost or misallocated. And doing proper work (rather than running mindless regressions on bad data) takes effort and time
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RT @LArroyoAbad: Happy (and relieved) to announce that my paper with @noel_maurer on labor coercion in colonial Peru has finally finally fiโฆ
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RT @ArthurLewisLab: Call for papers: โFrontiers of Comparative Development in Historical Perspectiveโ Conference to be held at the Universโฆ
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RT @MengWu_EcoHis: A wonderful and super supportive department for learning and engaging with great economic historians, set in a vibrant cโฆ
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RT @glambais: The conference will be held at the historic district of Belรฉm, where U. Lusรญada is located. Many historical sites, museums, aโฆ
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