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Inspired by Hamilton, I want to write a musical about José Alfredo Martinez de Hoy, Argentina’s Minister of Economy during 1976-80, under the last military dictatorship. This thread explains why

Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson are wrong because labour productivity in agriculture is a better explanation of European settlement patterns than settler mortality. Europeans only wanted to settle regions where they

A thread on how capitalism led to imperialism in the long nineteenth century, but not in the way that you think. 1/ 19th-century globalisation led to a long terms-of-trade boom

Marx's writing on the American Civil War are incredible, especially as he was mainly observing it from a desk in the British Library. He correctly identified it as a war