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Daniel Kuehn

@dkuehn.bsky.social

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Research on apprenticeship, workforce development, and history of economics

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 6d

My paper on W.H. Hutt's work on the economics of race before apartheid is published! This paper accomplishes two things:

1. It analyzes the origins of Hutt's more famous 1960s work on apartheid

2. It clarifies the origins of his "weighted franchise" proposal

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12h

Historians of capitalism naturally see things in historically contingent ways. I think that’s fine. Economic historians don’t. I think that’s fine too. But a lot of useless arguments have come from that difference.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12h

So if you’re defining its indispensability in a historically contingent way I think indispensability can be true. It was incredibly important to the growth of capitalism. If you’re defining indispensability in a “growth wouldn’t happen without it” way that’s definitely wrong.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12h

This actually introduces another distinction: we acknowledge and say it’s allocatively inefficient—we would be further along in the progressive march of history without it—but it was a major economic force in its time that powered a lot of change in the economy and just socially.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12h

Ok. I know he goofed on GDP accounting but I’m not sure how bad the rest of it is. I thought you were saying that of the two points I made allocative inefficiency was the correct one.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12h

In fact if it weren’t compatible slavery wouldn’t have been so damned persistent.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12h

So I’m reluctant to criticize what I’m not closely familiar with.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12h

I haven’t read Baptist so I won’t rule on him specifically, particularly since I’ve seen so many people take true claims about the wealth that slavery created for Southern elites and reading that as an “indispensable engine” claim. It’s all shot through with bad faith.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 12h

But you’re missing the point. The whole point is allocative inefficiency and efficiency for the planters is completely compatible.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 13h

Is that a strong South or a weak South story? I don’t know. It’s certainly not really the King Cotton story.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 13h

My sense is people confuse two very different efficiency claims here: slavery was efficient for planters in the sense that any exploitation forces more output. But slavery was allocatively inefficient precisely because of this exploitation.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 22h

Why do they print installation instructions so much smaller than 15 years ago it makes no sense, what is going on? I distinctly remember these being easier to read.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 23h

I’m going to choose to believe this is a National Treasure 3 promo stunt.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

I'm going to need you to sit down and read this headline slowly

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

Reposted by Linda J. Skitka, Daniel Kuehn

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

I'm going to need you to sit down and read this headline slowly

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

President Trump's Claim of an "Irrefutable" Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text ...

Yesterday I noted the latest set of unhinged social media posts from President Trump in which he declared that voter id requirements and other election changes would be imposed in the midterms via exe...

electionlawblog.org

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Daniel Kuehn

The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 1d

When state courts interpret their own constitutions to offer broader rights, the federal judiciary can't overturn them. A crucial safeguard against authoritarianism.

@kasiawolfkot.bsky.social

Robust State Constitutionalism Can Protect Rights and Resist Authoritarianism

We need a movement to fully unlock the potential for resistance by states

www.theunpopulist.net

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

These are going to be death traps and they know it.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

www.washingtonpost.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d

The trouble with buying your daughter flowers for opening night of her school musical on February 13th is that you’ve got to pay twice as much just because it’s February 13th.

Reposted by Mark A. Lemley, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild , and 7 more Mark A. Lemley, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild, Philip Nel, James Goodwin, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Michael Jones‐Correa, Daniel Kuehn, Jeannette Sutton, Timothy D. McBride

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

www.washingtonpost.com

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not as if I discount social breakdown but the ultimate cause and the context for sure is going to be climate change if anything… which seems relevant for growing food. But it’s absent at least in what I’ve seen. Perhaps in the depths of the internet, I only catch the odd video here and there.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve gotten into a lot of gardening YouTube videos since my gardening has picked up substantially at the cabin and that bleeds into things like permaculture and prepper gardening too which is fun and I listen to them. But it’s striking how preppers anticipate social breakdown but not climate change.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

W.E.B. Du Bois and the history of marginalism www.aeaweb.org/research/du-... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

W.E.B. Du Bois and the history of marginalism

Daniel Kuehn discusses key insights in marginalist wage theory developed by W. E. B. Du Bois when he was a Harvard graduate student.

Reposted by Daniel Kuehn

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

the next Dem admin needs to take a real big swing at reform immediately because the window is going to be limited and while there's a chance voters will punish you for it you know for a stone cold fact that they will punish you for going small

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

Right. So often this comes down to what people actually claim for it.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

My two cents is I see excesses on both sides. We’re at the point where this is so suspect that just saying what I said rather than “they learned everything they knew” is bound to get someone upset who is primed to get upset.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d

But Whitman’s book is considered very good history. I think it comes down to whether someone uses Connor’s phrasing “learned everything they knew” vs. an accurate statement that the Nazis studied, discussed, and adapted American eugenics laws and Indian policy (which they did).

Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 3d

Wow! One of the reasons I like the work we do at Urban is that we will publish however the data come out. It’s a deliverable. Publication will 100% happen. We get peer review but there’s no accept/reject decision like journals. And not surprisingly you get null results all the time.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 3d

The General Theory is so great that people often overlook the masterpiece that is The End of Laissez Faire.

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing but projection from these people.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d

Pam Bondi throws a fit:

"You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer"

Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 3d

www.theregreview.org/2026/02/05/c...

Benefit-Cost Analysis Under Threat | The Regulatory Review

The Trump Administration is underweighting the value of human health in benefit-cost analysis.

www.theregreview.org

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Rosemary A. Joyce, Bruce D. Baker , and 2 more Scott L. Greer, Rosemary A. Joyce, Bruce D. Baker, David R. Miller, Daniel Kuehn

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d

Pam Bondi throws a fit:

"You don't tell me anything, you washed up loser lawyer"

Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d

Well fuck that.

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

They're Coming for Our Daughters

The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

jessica.substack.com