Ibanca Anand
@ibanca.bsky.social
Historian of economics, agriculture, & labor in modern America • PhDing & union stewarding @ Johns Hopkins History/TRU-UE Local 197 • True voyage is return 🌱
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"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky
January 25, 2026 at 4:10 PM
"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky
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Who will protect the Earth from the pillage and spillage of mankind? Our new issue, “Bloom and Gloom,” surveys the mess we’ve made of our planet, and describes the terrain on which we stage the battle for its ecological future.
thebaffler.com/issues/no-82
thebaffler.com/issues/no-82
January 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Who will protect the Earth from the pillage and spillage of mankind? Our new issue, “Bloom and Gloom,” surveys the mess we’ve made of our planet, and describes the terrain on which we stage the battle for its ecological future.
thebaffler.com/issues/no-82
thebaffler.com/issues/no-82
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For the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Ibanca Anand recounts how midcentury US growth economists' influential models of "multi-factor productivity" in agriculture systematically occluded the role of labor and supported narrow, warped criteria of economic health.
Zvi Griliches and the Productivity Puzzle in Midcentury American Agriculture
by Ibanca Anand
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Ibanca Anand recounts how midcentury US growth economists' influential models of "multi-factor productivity" in agriculture systematically occluded the role of labor and supported narrow, warped criteria of economic health.