🚨 Call for applications - Research Assistant 🚨

Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social and I are recruiting someone to work on projects on "Violence and narratives in Colombia"

Looking for students interested in pol econ/dev, with a good knowledge of Colombian history

Deadline: April 15

🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨

1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas
2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth

www.nber.org/papers/w33542

@nber.org @romainwacziarg.bsky.social

🚨 Announcement - Hajnal Lecture 2025 🚨

"The Origins of Constitutional Government"
by @markkoyama.bsky.social

May 7, 2025 from 4 to 5:30 pm
Arthur Lewis Lab, University of Manchester

And no need to register to come to the lecture!

Migration as an escape valve from Malthusian dynamics after the discovery of the New World! #MarginalRevolution

- Societies with high fertility or late transition: larger diasporas!

- Opening of valve (steamship) contributed to transition to modern growth!

👉 www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/...

I am an economist. I may not have read Marx or Smith, but I did read "Potty Training in 3 Days" - properly historicizing my son's own methods of knowledge production.

If you're at ASSA, consider going to the ASREC session on Sunday 8-10am, where my co-author @romainwacziarg.bsky.social will be presenting our paper "Malthusian Migrations"!

I was planning on going to the Peak District today. Only option left is walking. Will be hard with the baby carrier though.

Teach them young! Look what I found in my toddler’s drawer. @worksinprogress.bsky.social

Help

Peak District ⛰️

Yes in my backyard!

Definitely 3 now!

Going to give this website a try - with a new profile picture! Definitely feels like an econ bubble, but I guess that’s the point.

Expect a thread on my newest work, Malthusian Migrations (with @romainwacziarg.bsky.social), soon! 🚨

www.guillaumeblanc.com/files/theme/...