Passive-aggressive investing
Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post on the rise of index investing.
One concerned economist
Read my latest OUP blog post about the economists who cannot bring themselves to endorse Donald Trump but still took the trouble to condemn the economic policies of Hillary Clinton.
Hamilton the central banker
Read my latest OUP blog post about Alexander Hamilton as the father of American central banking.
Young, scrappy, and hungry
Read my latest OUP blog post on Alexander Hamilton, the founding of the US public debt, and how Donald Trump could ruin the public credit of the United States. Someone ought to write a musical about it!
Free Trade, the Republicans, and Donald Trump
Read my latest OUP blog post about Donald Trump’s reversal of the Republican Party’s stance on free trade–and a parallel reversal in Britain 160 years ago.
Banking crises
Read my post on the Oxford Business Law Blog on “banking crises,” which presents a brief summary of my chapter by the same name in The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, which I co-edited with Youssef Cassis and Catherine Schenk.
Now available in the UK
The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History, which I co-edited with Youssef Cassis and Catherine Schenk, has just been published in the UK by Oxford University Press. It is available for purchase on Amazon.co.uk. As long as you are surfing Amazon, you might as well buy copies of WRONG and Unsettled Account too.
Sanders’ contradiction on trade and immigration
Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post, which suggests that Bernie Sanders’ views on immigration and trade are not so different from those of Donald Trump.
The perils of Brexit
Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post on the overwhelming case against Britain leaving the European Union.
The Wrong Stuff
Read my latest Oxford University Press blog post on how a well-earned lack of trust in our policy makers undermines the economy.