Finance professor, Yale School of Management. Tweets on finance, art, history and society.
Joined June 2014
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Eliminating American Studies? How long will Texans tolerate this anti-American nonsense?
Feb 17
UT Austin students are protesting tonight after the university announced late last week it will be consolidating some departments such as African and American studies, Mexican American studies, and a few others into a new department, which could impact their major and degree.
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As chair, Bill Goetzmann recruited Al Crosby to American Studies. It was brilliantly interdisciplinary. Now eliminated in the UT pogrom.
14 Sep 2025
The seeds of Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel in Crosby’s 1972.
Interestingly, supposedly no one knew what to do w Crosby & his biological history studies in early 70s, so someone managed to stick him in the American Studies dept at UT Austin. Great for scholarship they did
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Jan 24
East India Company Opium Factory. Headed to China. Yale Center for British Art Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850
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9 Oct 2025
"Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent."
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18 Oct 2025
Terrific piece about a Dutch bond. Actually a complex securitization created by William Gideon Deutz- arguably the first modern merchant banker. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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13 Oct 2025
Wow, incredible! Mokyr is awesome - he’s the father of the “ideas school” of the Industrial Revolution, which is one of the inspirations for Works in Progress, and the author of the best book I’ve read on the Irish Famine. So exciting.
13 Oct 2025
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.”
#NobelPrize
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London financial history. Double doors of the 12th century Pyx chamber. Where standard weights for coinage were kept for the trial of the Pyx. Henry II recoinage standardized English money; in 1281 Henry III established the continuous tradition of random testing of the money.
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30 Aug 2025
Mural of Revelations 17 in Westminster Abbey’s Chapter house “And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come …
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.”
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27 Aug 2025
An interview about finance and aesthetics with Eduardo da Costa Catoquessa. I appreciate his thoughtful summary and analysis! eduardodaesthetic.substack.c…
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I Analysed 100 Years of Index Funds, This Is What I Found - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=YilG6Kzd…
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