Davis Kedrosky
Economic historian writing on the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the origins of modern growth.
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- Please hire my officemate! He plays classical music without headphones all the time, so it would be ideal if he didn't take a year 7. (also, his job market pap… 6 Dec 2025
- It's hard to believe that it's just been one year! So many really fantastic articles in such a short time. 20 Feb 2025
- can i take this back 6 Nov 2024
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- quick reminder for everybody 5 Nov 2024
- Glad that the worst picture of me in existence doesn’t expire until 2027 18 Sept 2024
- And they said there was no field work in economic history 15 Sept 2024
- ... and that, you see, is why i had to play 1500 hours of Civ 5, take Swindon Town to the Champions League final, and conquer Calradia with my plucky band of S… 15 Aug 2024
- Missed this the first time through, but it's fun to see Oppenheimer thanked in the first paragraph of the acknowledgments to Lawrence Stone's *The Crisis of th… 26 Dec 2023
- Celebrating the end of a… the quarter. 9 Dec 2023
- Briefly relaxing my Twitter embargo to suggest that you read @oliverwkim's JMP, on the economic consequences of the Household Responsibility System in China. I… 27 Nov 2023
- Why would eliminating ball playing and dogs make the park more fun? 12 Nov 2023
- Sounding the @delong tocsin 15 Oct 2023
- For anyone interested I have a surfeit of codes to B***S** that I’d be happy to hand out. I’m also dkedrosky Over There, incidentally. 22 Sept 2023
- A useful anecdote from Bloch on the dividing line between the contemporaneous and historical—I've heard (and used!) the school-teacher's line too many times wi… 14 Sept 2023
- Just another day at the office. 14 Sept 2023
- This is just a marvellously amusing paragraph 14 Sept 2023
- nothing new under the sun, 1958 edition 13 Sept 2023
- Tried to go for a short run this morning, but have subsequently discovered that I went in exactly the opposite direction than intended and was completely lost… 8 Sept 2023
- En route to Pittsburgh for #EHA2023. Send me a note if you’re there and want to say hi! 7 Sept 2023
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The Great Divergence Loved
His 2000 masterpiece The Great Divergence argues that the Americas, won and worked by force, provided the critical ghost acreages that propelled Britain past the Old World's common ecological constraints.
blog.daviskedrosky.com 2022-10-12
How the World Became Rich Recommends
and How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin.
blog.daviskedrosky.com 2022-08-19
Guns, Germs, and Steel Recommends
Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel
blog.daviskedrosky.com 2022-08-19
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The Lever of Riches Recommends
Joel Mokyr’s The Lever of Riches
blog.daviskedrosky.com 2022-08-19
The European Miracle Recommends
I recommended Eric Jones’ The European Miracle
blog.daviskedrosky.com 2022-08-19
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective Loved
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective is the best book on the country’s adoption of sustained economic growth at the turn of the nineteenth century, full stop.
blog.daviskedrosky.com 2021-05-16
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Feedly Uses
I use Feedly to follow most of the usual economics blogs, as well as dozen or so journals
blog.daviskedrosky.com 2021-03-07
A Bridge Too Far Loved
A Bridge Too Far will remain the unchallenged classic on the subject. It was my favorite book until the age of twelve (at least).
blog.daviskedrosky.com 2020-05-24
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- Please hire my officemate! He plays classical music without headphones all the time, so it would be ideal if he didn't take a year 7. (also, his job market pap… 6 Dec 2025 Quoting@NUEconomicsDepartment of Economics PhD Candidate Christopher Sims’s research interests are Economic History, International Trade, Innovation. Learn mo…
- It's hard to believe that it's just been one year! So many really fantastic articles in such a short time. 20 Feb 2025 Quoting@oliverwkimMy 1-year anniversary post on 🌐Global Developments🌐 is up—if you have any comments / feedback over the previous year of posts, please let…
- can i take this back 6 Nov 2024 Quoting@dkedroskyquick reminder for everybody
- quick reminder for everybody 5 Nov 2024
- Glad that the worst picture of me in existence doesn’t expire until 2027 18 Sept 2024
- And they said there was no field work in economic history 15 Sept 2024
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- ... and that, you see, is why i had to play 1500 hours of Civ 5, take Swindon Town to the Champions League final, and conquer Calradia with my plucky band of S… 15 Aug 2024 Quoting@nberpubsGood-looking teens play less video games, as well as good-looking adults. Gaming does not make you worse-looking, though, from Andy Chung,…
- Missed this the first time through, but it's fun to see Oppenheimer thanked in the first paragraph of the acknowledgments to Lawrence Stone's *The Crisis of th… 26 Dec 2023
- Celebrating the end of a… the quarter. 9 Dec 2023
- Briefly relaxing my Twitter embargo to suggest that you read @oliverwkim's JMP, on the economic consequences of the Household Responsibility System in China. I… 27 Nov 2023 Quoting@oliverwkim🚀JMP alert🚀 My paper w @FergJoel applies machine learning to 1970s-80s satellite imagery to revisit one of the 🇨🇳 Chinese Miracle's fir…
- Why would eliminating ball playing and dogs make the park more fun? 12 Nov 2023
- Sounding the @delong tocsin 15 Oct 2023 Quoting@ueberdrussnew paper on the intellectual history of soviet economic planning just dropped
- For anyone interested I have a surfeit of codes to B***S** that I’d be happy to hand out. I’m also dkedrosky Over There, incidentally. 22 Sept 2023
- A useful anecdote from Bloch on the dividing line between the contemporaneous and historical—I've heard (and used!) the school-teacher's line too many times wi… 14 Sept 2023
- Just another day at the office. 14 Sept 2023
- The Great Divergence 12 Oct 2022 Loved
- The European Miracle 19 Aug 2022 Recommends
- The Lever of Riches 19 Aug 2022 Recommends
- Guns, Germs, and Steel 19 Aug 2022 Recommends
- How the World Became Rich 19 Aug 2022 Recommends
- The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective 16 May 2021 Loved
- Feedly 7 Mar 2021 Uses
- A Bridge Too Far 24 May 2020 Loved