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by Nicolas Brisset — Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Kris Inwood

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Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell.

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by Erwin Dekker — Reposted by Erwin Dekker

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This week's Substack post discusses the links between Richard Wright's classic Chicago novel, Native Son, and Harold Garfinkel's early (ethnomethodological) studies of the way juries work in Chicago.

Or simply, how institutional racism was understood in the 1940s.
From Native Son to Ethnomethodology
On Richard Wright and Harold Garfinkel
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Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Anne Applebaum, Joanna Bryson , and 44 more

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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Rousseau, Adaptive Preferences, and Social Entrepeneurship
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Shout outs to @erwindekker.bsky.social, @lastpositivist.bsky.social, @serenekhader.bsky.social
Rousseau, Adaptive Preferences, and Social Entrepeneurship
Near the start of The Social Contract (1762), in his criticism of Aristotle, Rousseau (recall) diagnoses the phenomenon of adaptive preferences. What we desire is not just shaped by society, but what ...
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Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit , and 27 more

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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.
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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...
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
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“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.”
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
www.technologyreview.com
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Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Joanna Bryson, Kim L. Scheppele , and 8 more

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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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Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Richard S.J. Tol, Michael A. Clemens , and 7 more

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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
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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... 🧵
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.
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by Erwin Dekker — Reposted by Erwin Dekker

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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.

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Joseph D. Lohman, still alive in 1959, but without a Ph.D
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by Erwin Dekker — Reposted by Erwin Dekker

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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

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Ben Hecht's Chicago
Living in Chicago in the early twentieth century meant getting the urban experience.
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by Erwin Dekker — Reposted by Erwin Dekker

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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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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.
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by Erwin Dekker

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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."
Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations | Journal of Institutional Economics | Cambridge Core
Enacting the future: institutions, temporal affordances, and the formation of expectations - Volume 21
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Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Daniel Kuehn

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A new issue of Œconomia. History | Methodology | Philosophy is available now
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by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Rosemary A. Joyce, Dana R. Fisher , and 1 more

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

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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.
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by Erwin Dekker — Reposted by Diane Coyle, Paul Nightingale

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

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): OIKONOMOS: A Journal of Student Research in the History of Economic Thought | OIKONOMOS: A Journal of Student Research in the History of Economic Thought
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by Jonathan Wolff — Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Richard S.J. Tol, Jacob Montgomery , and 3 more

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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.
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by Erwin Dekker

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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.
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by Erwin Dekker

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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.
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by Erwin Dekker

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Did you see his classic during Trump 1?

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

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Should say employer of course
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by Erwin Dekker — Reposted by Erwin Dekker

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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.
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Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Cas Mudde, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 16 more

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A very Shklarian day, I’m afraid.
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by Erwin Dekker

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Was sent a very nice image from the WINIR conference in Prague
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"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.
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Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Aaron Sojourner

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"liberalism just doesn't provide people with meaning - only nativism can do that"

idk, i found meaning as an internationalist, but sure, the UK tried your way - cut off, imposed sanctions on ourselves

are we now filled with national pride & a sense of belonging? we seem pretty miserable to me
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Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Henry Jones, Olivier Mannoni

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This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people.

Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it.

We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
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by Michael A. Clemens — Reposted by Erwin Dekker, Richard S.J. Tol, Kimberly A. Prather , and 16 more

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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.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 9
Leavitt: "These are the bad guys that we are picking up in Washington DC every day. The president would love to do this in every Democrat-run city across the country."
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