{"id":35,"date":"2011-05-26T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T10:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-05-26T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T10:29:36","slug":"heres-a-fascinating-blog-on-economic-history-bloombergs-echoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2011\/05\/heres-a-fascinating-blog-on-economic-history-bloombergs-echoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a fascinating blog on economic history – Bloomberg’s “Echoes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken a bit of a break from reading non-fiction \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the last non-fiction book I finished was Niall Ferguson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Civilization: The West and the Rest, about a month ago. (Stay tuned for the review!) Since then, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been slowly progressing through Power and Plenty: Trade, War and the World Economy in the Second Millennium, a crunchy academic history written by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Rourke, and quite enjoying it; however, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still only about 2\/3rds of the way through.<\/p>\n

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I have, however, been keeping up with my news sites. And so, when Bloomberg News introduced Echoes, an economics history blog<\/a>, as part of its brand-new site revamp, I sat up and took notice. In its first few days of existence, Echoes has already touched on the potential parallels between oil-rich post-communist Russia and post-revolution Arab states<\/a>; flat taxes in Eastern Europe (then) and in the Middle East (possibly in the future)<\/a>; and on a debate as to whether oil breeds a male-dominated labour force<\/a>. If this sounds interesting, head over and give the blog a look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken a bit of a break from reading non-fiction \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the last non-fiction book I finished was Niall Ferguson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Civilization: The West and the Rest, about a month ago. (Stay tuned for the review!) Since then, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-societies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}