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This paper recalls the unity of economics and history at MIT before the Second World War, and their divergence … thereafter. Economic history at MIT reached its peak in the 1970s with three teachers of the subject to graduates and … undergraduates alike. It declined until economic history vanished both from the faculty and the graduate program around 2010. The …
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This paper uses new data to extend the argument that there was an integrated wheat market in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. I explore the meaning of randomness when data are scarce, and I investigate how we recreate the nature of ancient societies by asking new questions that...
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This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported the composition of business leaders a century ago. I have" drawn a sample of business leaders today to discover how much the composition of the" American business elite has...
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This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported the composition of business leaders a century ago. I have" drawn a sample of business leaders today to discover how much the composition of the" American business elite has...
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