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Daniel Kuehn
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Research on apprenticeship, workforce development, and history of economics

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 8d
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....

Reposted by Daniel Kuehn

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18h
In film after film, Frederick Wiseman watched with preternatural patience as systems revealed themselves through the tenacious, irreducible vitality of the people inside them.

I kept returning to his films while reporting my book, hoping to absorb some of that patience.

Such a profound loss.
Frederick Wiseman Dies at 96: The Documentary Legend Was One of Cinema’s Greatest Masters
Wiseman's 50-plus year career started with a bang, "Titicut Follies," and only got better.
www.indiewire.com

dkuehn.bsky.social
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 19h
Like everyone in the liberal tradition, libertarians do value individual liberty to varying degrees. It just doesn’t distinguish them from other liberals. Libertarians’ antistatism is why you get the obsessions with “liberal dictators” and accelerationism that can be very far right.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 19h
The single biggest mistake you can make when trying to understand libertarians is to assume libertarianism is distinguished by believing in individual liberty. But what distinguishes libertarianism is antistatism, and when you realize that, lots of things that seem odd fall into place.
hananiarichard.bsky.social Richard Hanania @hananiarichard.bsky.social · 1d
Libertarianism believes in individual liberty. Why then are so many who use the label inclined toward authoritarianism, conspiracy thinking, and bigotry?

I explain the strange phenomenon of the populist libertarian and what drives such people. www.richardhanania.com/p/thoughts-o...
Thoughts on Elite Versus Populist Libertarianism
Why vice signallers say they believe in liberty
www.richardhanania.com

Reposted by Daniel Kuehn

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Richard Hanania @hananiarichard.bsky.social · 1d
Libertarianism believes in individual liberty. Why then are so many who use the label inclined toward authoritarianism, conspiracy thinking, and bigotry?

I explain the strange phenomenon of the populist libertarian and what drives such people. www.richardhanania.com/p/thoughts-o...
Thoughts on Elite Versus Populist Libertarianism
Why vice signallers say they believe in liberty
www.richardhanania.com

dkuehn.bsky.social
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 1d
My love language is a sugaring class at a mill built in 1811. It also happens to have been my Valentines Day present this year.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 2d
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
In fact if it weren’t compatible slavery wouldn’t have been so damned persistent.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
So I’m reluctant to criticize what I’m not closely familiar with.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
But you’re missing the point. The whole point is allocative inefficiency and efficiency for the planters is completely compatible.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
Is that a strong South or a weak South story? I don’t know. It’s certainly not really the King Cotton story.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 2d
I’m going to choose to believe this is a National Treasure 3 promo stunt.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
I'm going to need you to sit down and read this headline slowly
rickhasen.bsky.social Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 2d
🚨 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

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d
I'm going to need you to sit down and read this headline slowly

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Daniel Kuehn

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 3d
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

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 3d
These are going to be death traps and they know it.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d
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

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 3d
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 Nandita Sharma, Mark A. Lemley, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 8 more

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d
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

dkuehn.bsky.social
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d
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.
www.aeaweb.org

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4d
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

dkuehn.bsky.social
Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d
Right. So often this comes down to what people actually claim for it.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d
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.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 4d
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).