Erwin Dekker

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought Controversies on the concept of progress in Progressive Era American Economics. Volume 32, Issue 5 of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Then, in 32(5), Lenfant reviews Bridel (following on their interview also in the same issue), Greitens reviews a new translation of Schurtz, @madelinew.bsky.social reviews @arnaudorain.bsky.social, @erwindekker.bsky.social reviews Slobodian www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

Joseph D. Lohman, still alive in 1959, but without a Ph.D

This week's post tells the story of Joseph D. Lohman who could not defend his dissertation because of death threats from the gang he had studied.

Chicago sociologists did much to 'normalize' crime, but this for them too must have been unusual.

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/on-not-fin...

The cover of the book "Liberal Emancipation: Explorations in Political and Social Economy." It features a lot of pink as well as a photo with a stairway and a sunny blue sky with some white clouds.

My colleague Mikayla Novak has a new edited volume out called "Liberal Emancipation."

She has brought together a great group of scholars, including @erwindekker.bsky.social, @ottolehto.bsky.social, and even me, to analyze the emancipatory aspects of liberalism!

Read on to learn what I argue... 🧵

Joseph D. Lohman, still alive in 1959, but without a Ph.D

This week's post tells the story of Joseph D. Lohman who could not defend his dissertation because of death threats from the gang he had studied.

Chicago sociologists did much to 'normalize' crime, but this for them too must have been unusual.

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/on-not-fin...

Ben Hecht's Chicago Living in Chicago in the early twentieth century meant getting the urban experience.

And here is the first post, on Ben Hecht and his humanism. In my eyes Hecht was the best and most characteristic observer of Chicago in the interwar period

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/ben-hechts...

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I will be writing about my research on Chicago once a week at this new Substack: Seeing like Chicago

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Ben Hecht's Chicago Living in Chicago in the early twentieth century meant getting the urban experience.

And here is the first post, on Ben Hecht and his humanism. In my eyes Hecht was the best and most characteristic observer of Chicago in the interwar period

seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/ben-hechts...

Seeing like Chicago | Erwin Dekker | Substack Observations about Chicago economics, sociology, literature and more by Erwin Dekker. Click to read Seeing like Chicago, by Erwin Dekker, a Substack publication. Launched 11 minutes ago.

I will be writing about my research on Chicago once a week at this new Substack: Seeing like Chicago

Do subscribe, for a weekly note!

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Great new paper on enactivism and expectations in economics: "Rather than understanding expectations as internal representations, it argues that engagement with institutional temporal affordances gives rise to distinct modes of expectation – institutionally enacted ways of relating to the future."

A new issue of Œconomia. History | Methodology | Philosophy is available now
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Jimmy Kimmel’s show to return on Tuesday | CNN “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to air on ABC on Tuesday night, the network announced in a statement.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...

New PhD-student run journal in the history of economics, Oikonomos, has just published its first issue

oikonomosjournal.com/index.php/oi...

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

I remember when economists spoke of premature deindustrialization in Asia and Africa.

Now the Trump administration appears set on turning back the clock, and reindustrialize the USA.

It might well mean that the supposedly 'premature' can pick up the baton of the knowledge and tech economy.

This hits so close to home. We are only off the H1B for a year and a half. On the one hand very thankful my employee was so supportive with the green card procedure, on the other hand very angry at the closing of opportunities for so many.

This Disney cancelation is not the easiest thing to explain to the kids. But our no. 2 is now explaining to her younger brother what a boycott is using Rosa Parks as an example. Great parenting moment.

Admittedly, it also involved negotiations over what they could finish right now before canceling.

YouTube video by De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach | VPRO America First - The Netherlands Second - Donald Trump | ORIGINAL UPLOAD #ZML

Did you see his classic during Trump 1?

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Should say employer of course

This hits so close to home. We are only off the H1B for a year and a half. On the one hand very thankful my employee was so supportive with the green card procedure, on the other hand very angry at the closing of opportunities for so many.

A very Shklarian day, I’m afraid.

Was sent a very nice image from the WINIR conference in Prague

"Don't have empathy because he didn't" is precisely wrong. If we strive to be good, and we must, that means striving to be better than those who aren't. It means being ethical towards even the unethical. It means being virtuous towards even the unvirtuous. It means maintaining our humanity.

Under any system, meaning is something that people need to find or make.

The idea that restricting freedom of movement, restricting trade, etc. will give people meaningful lives is wrong.

Instead, these illiberal policies coercively limit the range of ways that people can find and create meaning.

Powerful piece. And how goddamn sad we find ourselves here

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

The September issue of JHET is out (vol. 47:3)

We have six new articles (4OA), on the Road(s) to Serfdom, the origins of financial economics, Fred Taylor and Frank Knight, Teaching GE Theory, Smith on the East India monopoly and Hayek and Aristotle. As well as five OA book reviews.

Check it out!