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Brad Hansen
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economic historian https://bradleyahansen.blogspot.com/
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Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · 8d
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Winemaking employed about 64,000 people in 2020.

In 1918, coal mining employed more than 750,000.
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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 8d
The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
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Guido Alfani @guidoalfani.bsky.social · 12d
The recording of the Tawney Lecture on "Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Societies", which I had the honour to deliver in Glasgow last spring, is now online! Thanks
@echistsoc.bsky.social for inviting me.
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Tawney Lecture 2025: Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies - Economic History Society
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · 18d
MAGA Making America Grow Ashamed
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18d
A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.
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John O'Brien @jlpobrien.bsky.social · 21d
Great course if you're interested in Irish economic history - learnt a lot last year - highly recommend!
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CEPH @cephie.bsky.social · 23d
Why was the Irish Famine was so severe? Why did the North and South develop differently? Is Ireland ‘rich’?

If you want to find out, CEPH is pleased to announce that registration is open for our online course, "The Development of the Irish Economy". Register here:

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Open Online Economic History Course - CEPH - Centre for Economics, Policy and History
The Development of the Irish Economy     Can economics help us understand why the Irish Famine was so severe? What explains Ireland's long economic boom of the eighteenth century? Why did the North an...
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Sep 7
The Age of Sycophancy
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 6
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Aug 26
He's literally become Don Quixote.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26
Trump: "Windmills -- we're just not gonna allow them. They are ruining are country."
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 19
Neither has the Constitution
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 16
I thought it was a pretty good horror novel
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 13
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Aug 12
Menzie Chinn provides a useful roundup of some of the recent misrepresentations and basic misunderstandings of government statistics from Trump's nominee to be our next BLS Commissioner. The clear theme is a commitment to winning a partisan news cycle over the truth: econbrowser.com/archives/202...
Trump Nominates EJ Antoni to BLS Commissioner | Econbrowser
From CNBC:
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Aug 11
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
a tweet from EJ Antoni that reads "Import prices just came in WAAAY below expectations: June was up just 0.1% M/M, -0.2% Y/Y, while May saw a huge downward revision from flat to -0.4% M/M; still waiting for tariffs to be passed on by foreign producers..." I replied "The import price index measure pre-tariff prices, the fact that pre-tariff prices are basically flat means Americans are paying the tariffs. Though I wouldn’t expect a Heritage foundation guy like yourself to be smart enough to understand basic stuff like that."
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Aug 11
Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · Aug 2
All three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use:

- #Bayesian Data Analysis, 3rd ed (aka BDA3) at stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/

- #Regression and Other Stories at avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples/

- Active Statistics at avehtari.github.io/ActiveStatis...
The cover of Bayesian Data Analysis book The cover of Regression and Other Stories book The cover of Active Statistics book
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 11
are there any conservatives left that know that the Road to Serfdom didn't refer to social security or government funding for healthcare or even regulation. It was about the sort of central planning of economic decisions that Trump and Vance are trying to normalize
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 11
since you ask bradleyahansen.blogspot.com/2025/08/coll...
College Major, Employment Status and Earnings
The relationship between college major and employment status has been getting a lot of attention. The Mellon Foundation claims that “aroun...
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 11
And to be clear I'm not here to defend any of these estimates. The sharing of the NY Times and Mellon articles on bsky has reflected a lot of confirmation bias and little critical evaluation of sources. If you are here to provide critical evaluation of the underlying studies, please proceed.
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 11
My understanding is they use O Net but only one question about the level of qualification. If a majority of respondents don't say college is required the code the occupation college not typically required.
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 11
What about the part of the report that says that over half of the recent history majors who are employed are in jobs that do not typically require a college degree.
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 11
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 9
OTOH I think some people get carried away with claims about AI transforming everything. Yogi Berra — 'It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.'
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 9
Agree. Bought my first PC in the late 80s. Very expensive and barely did a decent job at word processing. Had dual disk drives. The document was in one. The word processing software was in the other.
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 9
If I read you correctly, I generally agree. I often remind students they are writing a paper about their research not a paper about them doing the research. OTOH, I think academic history often benefits from discussion of the process, e.g. Midwifes Tale, All That She Carried, Whigs and Hunters
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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · Aug 5
Peter Temin, economic historian at MIT, has passed away. He worked both on problems of understanding the past (e.g. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?") and how how the past shapes the present (e.g. "The Vanishing Middle Class.") Terrific scholar and mentor, generous critic.
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Brad Hansen @bradhansen.bsky.social · Aug 5
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in a recent Rhodes Center podcast you mentioned a study regarding college majors of founders and hedge fund performance. I was wondering if I could get the citation for that
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Aug 5
This is so important. The focus on job numbers ignores the fact that the BLS computes inflation (the CPI) which is directly linked to many government and non-government benefits. Any attempt at politicizing inflation numbers is very, very, very bad…
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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · Aug 4
Looming problems from BLS statistics politicization. Social security benefits and many long term labor market contracts are indexed to the CPI. BLS makes the CPI. Recipients care about indexed cost of living increases, a lot.
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