Davis Kedrosky

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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
... 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
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
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