Rick Hornbeck
@rickhornbeck.bsky.social
Economist, Economic Historian. Soccer Dad, Climber Dad.
https://voices.uchicago.edu/richardhornbeck/
https://voices.uchicago.edu/richardhornbeck/
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Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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this is wild, and a beautiful (simple!) website to boot
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
this is wild, and a beautiful (simple!) website to boot
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Rick, you dropped this. 👑
Seriously what an incredible data project!
Seriously what an incredible data project!
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Rick, you dropped this. 👑
Seriously what an incredible data project!
Seriously what an incredible data project!
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man this is so exciting
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
man this is so exciting
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Amazing public good release by @rickhornbeck.bsky.social and his collaborators!
No doubt this will generate even more (interesting) #econhist research about the United States.
No doubt this will generate even more (interesting) #econhist research about the United States.
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Amazing public good release by @rickhornbeck.bsky.social and his collaborators!
No doubt this will generate even more (interesting) #econhist research about the United States.
No doubt this will generate even more (interesting) #econhist research about the United States.
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Reposted by Rick Hornbeck
www.cmfdata.org Great data drop! @rickhornbeck.bsky.social
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
www.cmfdata.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
www.cmfdata.org Great data drop! @rickhornbeck.bsky.social
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Just in time for #Juneteenth my new article “Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty” is now out in the Journal of Historical Political Economy. TL; DR: freedom was only the first step in creating citizenship. www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
now publishers - Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty
Publishers of Foundations and Trends, making research accessible
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June 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Just in time for #Juneteenth my new article “Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty” is now out in the Journal of Historical Political Economy. TL; DR: freedom was only the first step in creating citizenship. www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
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NEW PAPER: "Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history" with Jonas Helgertz and Joe Price now forthcoming (and nicely proofed) at Explorations in Economic History 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kiv03I~dW...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
NEW PAPER: "Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history" with Jonas Helgertz and Joe Price now forthcoming (and nicely proofed) at Explorations in Economic History 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kiv03I~dW...
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So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi!
nber.org/papers/w33502
nber.org/papers/w33502
February 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi!
nber.org/papers/w33502
nber.org/papers/w33502
Excited to share this new paper on how race was constructed along socioeconomic lines in US history, during a period of unfulfilled potential for social change between emancipation and Jim Crow segregation
Examining the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era finds that people with the same skin tone were racialized based on their wealth, setting a path for racial stratification, from @aadukia.bsky.social, Hornbeck, Keniston, and Lualdi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33502
February 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Excited to share this new paper on how race was constructed along socioeconomic lines in US history, during a period of unfulfilled potential for social change between emancipation and Jim Crow segregation
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Super cool to see a paper like this as an NBER working paper. I haven't tracked it systematically, but I think there's a lot more of this style of work on race and racism in econ now than when I started paying attention to the field in the 2000s. www.nber.org/papers/w33502
The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Super cool to see a paper like this as an NBER working paper. I haven't tracked it systematically, but I think there's a lot more of this style of work on race and racism in econ now than when I started paying attention to the field in the 2000s. www.nber.org/papers/w33502