Financial historian on Twitter hiatus. Find me somewhere else--I'm easy to find.
Joined September 2014
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21 May 2024
Plastic Capitalism: It's out!
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31 Oct 2024
What a day to be discussing capital market disciplining of national fiscal policy under the classic gold standard in my global banking class.
UK borrowing costs hit highest level this year as gilt market sell-off intensifies - on.ft.com/3AhvX27 via @FT
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30 Oct 2024
Athens and @UGAHistory friends: I'll be giving a talk next week about my book Plastic Capitalism. It's the story of the rise of credit cards and long-running legal and political efforts to make them safe.(Also of interest to @UGASchoolofLaw @TerryCollege @UGA_SPIA) See you there!
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29 Oct 2024
I'm really excited that, now more than a decade after conducting them, my oral histories with Alan Krueger about his service on the Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama administration are now available through Princeton's Special Collections.
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21 Oct 2024
Absolute banger from @bhgreeley.
"This year the Riksbank awarded its prize to a treatment of early modern institutions so selective it functions as a bedtime story for capitalists."
The Nobel for Econsplaining - on.ft.com/4f844Iv via @FT
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19 Oct 2024
It's called a land bank. We've been here before: jstor.org/stable/2113435
19 Oct 2024
Buying digital tokens that represent ownership of a bricks-and-mortar house is a nascent and quirky market — one with the potential to change the status quo.
Meet the cryptocurrency enthusiasts testing the waters in 'property tokenisation': on.ft.com/3BQ8Iwu
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15 Oct 2024
Had a go at the Cobbler today. Weather too poor to summit, but a good adventure nonetheless.
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11 Oct 2024
“Meticulously chronicled...@SeanVanatta uses the card industry as a case study in the eclipse of New Deal liberalism.”—Sara Mayeaux @IReadJotwell on Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
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11 Oct 2024
See, e.g. HRM the late queen sacking Boris.
11 Oct 2024
The notion that former President Carter has rallied in order to vote in this election raises a question @sunitapurimd has confronted in her palliative-care practice: Can a person stretch the days of their life to include a last meaningful act or moment? theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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9 Oct 2024
📢 Updates to the #BHC2025 Annual Meeting Page! 📢
1️⃣ Session Organizer thebhc.org/session-organizer
2️⃣ Instructions for poster presentations thebhc.org/poster-submission…
thebhc.org/ @SeanVanatta @SMihm @BartElmore
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1 Oct 2024
In honor of Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday, let's take a look at why he's one of our under-appreciated style icons. 🧵
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26 Sep 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference on Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective @GloCoBank @OxfordESH 27-28 Mar 2025 in Oxford. Deadline: 29 Nov 2024 @financialhist @EconHistAssoc @EcHistSoc
@The_EHES
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24 Sep 2024
Plastic Capitalism is Monopoly Capitalism.
U.S. Accuses Visa of Monopoly in Debit Cards nytimes.com/2024/09/24/busin…
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16 Sep 2024
Thrilled about this @IReadJotwell review by @saramayeux, 'The Rise of Credit Cards and the Fall of the New Deal Order'!
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@yalepress #plasticcapitalism
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16 Sep 2024
Great review from @saramayeux over @IReadJotwell right in time ➡️ @SeanVanatta gives a lunch talk here @UMichLaw today at noon on his new book, Plastic Capitalism.
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13 Sep 2024
Undoubtedly the most important--and Robert Bork argued it!
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10 Sep 2024
Very excited that my book, _From Label to Table_, is paired with @SeanVanatta _Plastic Capital_ as part of the @ASLHtweets "Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series": aslh.net/virtual-book-club-2…. Lots of new great legal history books to learn about. Come join the fun!
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4 Sep 2024
“Remnants of the past that don’t make sense in present terms—the useless, the odd, the peculiar, the incongruous—are the signs of history. They supply proof that the world was not made in its present form.”
Bank supervision: never perfect; always evolving.
Bank supervision is about promoting safe and sound practices and behaviors. Read Acting Comptroller Michael J. Hsu’s thoughts on the nature of bank supervision, how and why it has evolved, and the steps necessary for it to remain effective. occ.gov/news-issuances/news-…
ALT Photo of Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu.
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3 Sep 2024
Great discussion here of the evolution of bank supervision by acting comptroller Michael Hsu.
Also, killer graphic, don't you think @PeterContiBrown?
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