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Ariel Ron

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ag, energy, econ & political history @ SMU // director Clements Center for Southwest Studies // web: arielron.net // book: Grassroots Leviathan (Johns Hopkins UP 2020) http://bit.ly/2CjHK1G // review: http://bit.ly/3xiKlja

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Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 2d

why do copyeditors hate style?

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 8d

Ricardo was "the third of at least seventeen children"!

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 14d

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 15d

If you read Hume carefully (not even that carefully), he doesn't really hold to the quantity theory of money. I mean, he offers a lot of caveats and circumstances that can be easily shown to dominate the mechanical proportioning of commodities to means of payment.

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 24d

I’ll have to check out that book! The problem with Civil War military history, though, is that it is a bottomless abyss of texts and at some point you have to put it all away to actually write something!

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 26d

Not yet but it’s on my list. I recently read Roth on Roman logistics.

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 26d

Yes, to a large degree "foraging" was very literally about forage in the main. This is Henry Halleck, one of the Union's top strategists, in the manual/textbook he published just before the Civil War.

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 26d

Yes that’s true but it was only possible because they marched through an agriculturally fertile area that had not been marched through before and in the right time of year.

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 26d

Same reason: using energy to carry energy

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 26d

The Overland Campaign too

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 26d

How Civil War logistics resolve into the problem of feeding horses, to a surprisingly high degree!

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 26d

h/t @bretdevereaux.bsky.social for acoup.blog/2022/07/15/c...

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · 26d

Graphic summary of the "tyranny of the wagon equation" for a Civil War army of 100,000 men + 20,000 cavalry & artillery horses + X wagon mules as a function of days' march from a base. The equine supply factor is total daily forage ÷ food (for humans). By day 4 or 5 it's out of control.

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tom Clancy’s the Tragedy of American Foreign Policy

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 27

Looking forward to my 3 cent check

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’ve always used reading quizzes, but the problem is they can just generate summary and never read deeply. We have to come up with ways to combat the new culture of summary knowledge.

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 26

I'm not sure people have internalized yet the big AI teaching challenge is more about reading than writing. We can makes students write blue book exams but how can we get them to read a whole book?

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 25

The tariffs make a lot more sense when seen as a substitute for the income tax instead of having anything to do with domestic manufacturing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 25

Trump on tariffs: "We were richer then proportionally than at any time in the history of our country, and then stupidly in 1913 then said 'let's go to the income tax.'"

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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · Aug 22

Super interesting stuff on the pre-Fed ideas about monetary governance!

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sofia and I have a new article out about Civil War era monetary policy and architecture, as understood by Stephen Colwell. Colwell is an interesting figure I wrote about in my AHR article as well. In some ways very conservative, in others radical...

read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

Central Monetary Services Without Centralization: Stephen Colwell and the Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century US Monetary Architecture | History of Political Economy | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 19

True!

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 19

Annoyed because my pencil doesn’t produce eye roll emojis for me to write in the margins of the book I’m reading

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 19

Indeed

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 19

From Irwin’s trade policy history. What is the point of producing a chart like this, completely ignoring services, which now account for ~30% of US exports?

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 19

The dawn songbirds are the journalists and pundits I guess, plenty of twittering

Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social · Aug 19

Owl of Minerva shit