Miscellaneous Links
14 March 2011 at 4:33 pm Peter G. Klein 1 comment
| Peter Klein |
- Max Weber versus Rodney Stark. Read the very interesting comment thread at this ThinkMarkets post.
- US firms can expect lower worker productivity starting this week. Duh.
- The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions by Eugen Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler. Newly translated from the 2009 German-language original. (Translator Arlene Oost-Zinner was a production editor on my 2010 book and did a wonderful job — no cracks, please, about the need to have my stilted prose translated into passable English.)
- Do you know what really important US patent was granted on March 14?
Entry filed under: - Klein -, Austrian Economics, Business/Economic History, History of Economic and Management Thought.
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scott cunningham | 14 March 2011 at 4:56 pm
Jared Rubin has an interesting new article that is somewhat related to the Weber/Stark thread.
http://faculty.fullerton.edu/jrubin/Printing_Protestants.pdf
His finding of the printing press causing the expansion (early on anyway) in protestantism is not novel, but it seems like it does suggest that there could be unobserved heterogeneity issues that Weber’s method may not be able to untangle