Too much is made of the supposedly vast methodological divide between economic historians and the rest of us. The fact that I was not trained as an econometrician did not mean I could not understand books by Douglass North, Albert Fishlow, Richard Sutch, Gavin Wright, or Robert Fogel.

As recent discussions on this forum and in the broader academic literature illustrate, the economic dimensions of American slavery remain…

Caitlin Rosenthal’s contribution to the newest issue of Capitalism (“Capitalism when Labor was Capital”) makes a welcome effort to stimulate…

You don’t need to know the entire coastline of an ocean before you begin exploring it. The exploration has to…