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SUTVA’s Long Shadow
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Argentina without Railroads, the United States without Slavery
There is a “Cotenability” Problem in Counterfactuals
Anthropic’s Economist in the Anthropocene
Sometimes Models Collapse
The Columbian Exchange for Dummies
“And then Came the Potato…” May Be Overly Simplistic
Nazis in Space and Other Tall Tales
Historical Economics Is Sometimes Just Noise
This Ethnicity Is a River
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Did Europe Underdevelop Africa?
The Slave Trade Illustrates the Limitations of “Historical Economics”
The Rise of Europe, Recoded
Data Construction Is Again an Issue in Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson
How to Win a Nobel Prize Using Mickey Mouse Numbers
We Need to Talk about Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson