Leo Dolan
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Leo Dolan
@leodolan.bsky.social
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Here are the links to my recently published EHR paper and AEHN blog on forced labour in colonial Africa:
Living Standards and Forced Labour: A Comparative Study of Colonial Africa, 1918–74
tinyurl.com/2p8k6fhf
Forced to Change? Factor Endowments, Monopsony....
tinyurl.com/2p9cwsra
Living Standards and Forced Labour: A Comparative Study of Colonial Africa, 1918–74
tinyurl.com/2p8k6fhf
Forced to Change? Factor Endowments, Monopsony....
tinyurl.com/2p9cwsra
Reposted by Leo Dolan
My contribution to the AEHN open access textbook on African economic history is out! Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994 www.aehnetwork.org/textbook/afr...
Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994 – African Economic History Network
www.aehnetwork.org
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
My contribution to the AEHN open access textbook on African economic history is out! Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994 www.aehnetwork.org/textbook/afr...
Great paper! If the so-called "resource curse" was largely a Cold War-era phenomenon, and the last 30 years were a different story in development outcomes, then if we're entering Cold War 2.0, could this reactivate political backsliding, potentially reviving the latent resource curse mechanism?
March 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Great paper! If the so-called "resource curse" was largely a Cold War-era phenomenon, and the last 30 years were a different story in development outcomes, then if we're entering Cold War 2.0, could this reactivate political backsliding, potentially reviving the latent resource curse mechanism?
Permanent links to both the paper and article here.
doi.org/10.1111/ehr....
www.aehnetwork.org/blog/forced-...
doi.org/10.1111/ehr....
www.aehnetwork.org/blog/forced-...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Despite significant advances in the quantitative study of African history, the Portuguese colonial empire remains an underexplored topic. This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of work....
doi.org
March 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Permanent links to both the paper and article here.
doi.org/10.1111/ehr....
www.aehnetwork.org/blog/forced-...
doi.org/10.1111/ehr....
www.aehnetwork.org/blog/forced-...
Here are the links to my recently published EHR paper and AEHN blog on forced labour in colonial Africa:
Living Standards and Forced Labour: A Comparative Study of Colonial Africa, 1918–74
tinyurl.com/2p8k6fhf
Forced to Change? Factor Endowments, Monopsony....
tinyurl.com/2p9cwsra
Living Standards and Forced Labour: A Comparative Study of Colonial Africa, 1918–74
tinyurl.com/2p8k6fhf
Forced to Change? Factor Endowments, Monopsony....
tinyurl.com/2p9cwsra
March 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Here are the links to my recently published EHR paper and AEHN blog on forced labour in colonial Africa:
Living Standards and Forced Labour: A Comparative Study of Colonial Africa, 1918–74
tinyurl.com/2p8k6fhf
Forced to Change? Factor Endowments, Monopsony....
tinyurl.com/2p9cwsra
Living Standards and Forced Labour: A Comparative Study of Colonial Africa, 1918–74
tinyurl.com/2p8k6fhf
Forced to Change? Factor Endowments, Monopsony....
tinyurl.com/2p9cwsra
Reposted by Leo Dolan
People worry a lot about looming mineral shortages but this is a solvable problem as it has been solved in the past.
In this article in Time, I look back at the response to previous fears of shortages:
time.com/7202047/cold...
In this article in Time, I look back at the response to previous fears of shortages:
time.com/7202047/cold...
The Blueprint for Winning the Race for Critical Minerals
The U.S. faced a similar predicament in the 1950s, and undertook an initiative that solved the problem.
time.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
People worry a lot about looming mineral shortages but this is a solvable problem as it has been solved in the past.
In this article in Time, I look back at the response to previous fears of shortages:
time.com/7202047/cold...
In this article in Time, I look back at the response to previous fears of shortages:
time.com/7202047/cold...
With all the recent chatter about the Benguela Railway, including in this Economist article, I thought I’d share an extract about its original construction which reads like something out of a Mad Max movie. Source: Adventures in Africa by J.B. Thornhill (1915)
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
January 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
With all the recent chatter about the Benguela Railway, including in this Economist article, I thought I’d share an extract about its original construction which reads like something out of a Mad Max movie. Source: Adventures in Africa by J.B. Thornhill (1915)
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
Nice! I would have expected much greater trade between Ethiopia and its neighbor, particularly Kenya.
I was feeling unfulfilled by studies of Africa's intraregional trade where the punch line is a coefficient for a dummy variable in a gravity model. So I made this Dorling cartogram of 2022 trade flows. Countries are circles proportional to GDP, with recorded trade flows overlaid.
December 24, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Nice! I would have expected much greater trade between Ethiopia and its neighbor, particularly Kenya.
Reposted by Leo Dolan
I have a little paper out in the latest issue of the Industrial History Review (a special issue on new frontiers in African economic history) that looks at spatial variation in living standards and purchasing power in French West Africa around 1950. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
Spatial inequality in living standards and the urban premium in late colonial French West Africa
| Revista de Historia Industrial — Industrial History Review
revistes.ub.edu
November 15, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I have a little paper out in the latest issue of the Industrial History Review (a special issue on new frontiers in African economic history) that looks at spatial variation in living standards and purchasing power in French West Africa around 1950. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi...
Until 1963, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola relied on forced labour in its diamond mines, making it arguably the last major employer in colonial Africa to uphold such practices. My IHR blog examines the economic forces that sustained this system and what finally brought about its end. #Angola
What drives the transformation of oppressive institutions, and how does this affect economic development amongst those working under European colonial rule in Africa? Read @leodolan.bsky.social's post on The Great Spurt: ihrthegreatspurt.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/w...
What drives the transformation of oppressive institutions, and how does this affect economic development amongst those working under European colonial rule in Africa?
My latest research tackles these questions through the case of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), one of the largest colonial enterprises to exist in Portuguese Africa. By exploring ho…
ihrthegreatspurt.wordpress.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Until 1963, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola relied on forced labour in its diamond mines, making it arguably the last major employer in colonial Africa to uphold such practices. My IHR blog examines the economic forces that sustained this system and what finally brought about its end. #Angola