pseudoerasmus

Recent posts

• Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence
• Labour relations & textiles: addenda
• The Calico Acts: Was British cotton made possible by infant industry protection from Indian competition?
• The Napoleonic blockade & the infant industry argument: caveats, limitations, reservations
• The Bairoch hypothesis (or the “tariff-growth paradox” of the late 19th century)
• Tariff Protection of British cotton 1774-1820s
• Random thoughts on critiques of Allen’s theory of the Industrial Revolution
• Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton: A Reductionist Summary
• Did inequality cause the First World War? Contra Hobson-Lenin-Milanovic
• The Baptist Question Redux: Emancipation & Cotton Productivity