Christopher M. Meissner
@chris-meissner.bsky.social
Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis. Globalization since 1800, financial crises since 1800, other Cliometric-type research
https://sites.google.com/site/chrismmeissner/home
https://sites.google.com/site/chrismmeissner/home
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Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, makes the FT Best Summer Books List: ft.com/content/025b...
Just sayin...if you have beach day coming up...
Just sayin...if you have beach day coming up...
Best summer books of 2025: Roula Khalaf, Stephen Bush and other FT journalists pick their favourites
FT editors, columnists and specialists share the titles that have inspired them
ft.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, makes the FT Best Summer Books List: ft.com/content/025b...
Just sayin...if you have beach day coming up...
Just sayin...if you have beach day coming up...
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For your weekend reading pleasure...
My first piece for The Atlantic is up. Its my take on what is going on at a macro level across the world. I hope you enjoy it, or they will not ask me to do another one: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
My first piece for The Atlantic is up. Its my take on what is going on at a macro level across the world. I hope you enjoy it, or they will not ask me to do another one: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
The World Economy Is on the Brink of Epochal Change
Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political choices.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
For your weekend reading pleasure...
My first piece for The Atlantic is up. Its my take on what is going on at a macro level across the world. I hope you enjoy it, or they will not ask me to do another one: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
My first piece for The Atlantic is up. Its my take on what is going on at a macro level across the world. I hope you enjoy it, or they will not ask me to do another one: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
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And David Jacks with "Suez" #past #history #trade #technology #change #economics #econhis #shipping @chris-meissner.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
And David Jacks with "Suez" #past #history #trade #technology #change #economics #econhis #shipping @chris-meissner.bsky.social
Yeah! Love it too but isn’t it a little dated?
This is better than Latin American structuralism or dependency theory or unequal exchange theory. But I'm not going to post this at the other place because I would be inundated with replies fans of those things, whereas the advantage here is I barely get engagement ;-)
June 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Yeah! Love it too but isn’t it a little dated?
Just released. New WP on product quality and trade liberalization in France, 1850-1874. The economy was producing high quality items throughout, but liberalization decreased avg. quality but some main exports went up in quality.
www.nber.org/papers/w33902
www.nber.org/papers/w33902
The French Touch: Product Quality and France’s Great Trade Liberalization, 1850-1874
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...
www.nber.org
June 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Just released. New WP on product quality and trade liberalization in France, 1850-1874. The economy was producing high quality items throughout, but liberalization decreased avg. quality but some main exports went up in quality.
www.nber.org/papers/w33902
www.nber.org/papers/w33902
Looking forward to speaking later this week at Profs & Pints Alameda on "Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future"
Thu, May 15th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM PDT
Faction Brewing, Alameda, CA
Tix here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof....
More info: www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea
Thu, May 15th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM PDT
Faction Brewing, Alameda, CA
Tix here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof....
More info: www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea
Profs & Pints Alameda: Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future
Profs and Pints Alameda presents: “Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future,” with Christopher M. Meissner, professor of economics at the University of California Davis and author of One from the...
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May 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Looking forward to speaking later this week at Profs & Pints Alameda on "Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future"
Thu, May 15th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM PDT
Faction Brewing, Alameda, CA
Tix here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof....
More info: www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea
Thu, May 15th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM PDT
Faction Brewing, Alameda, CA
Tix here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof....
More info: www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea
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Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @josephestiglitz.bsky.social - Trump's MAGA Economy Driven by Greed, Stupidity and Cowardice | Barry Eichengreen - Will Trump's Weakening of the Dollar Lead to a New Global Reserve Currency? | @chris-meissner.bsky.social - Trump's Hollow Promise of Gain After the Pain
April 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @josephestiglitz.bsky.social - Trump's MAGA Economy Driven by Greed, Stupidity and Cowardice | Barry Eichengreen - Will Trump's Weakening of the Dollar Lead to a New Global Reserve Currency? | @chris-meissner.bsky.social - Trump's Hollow Promise of Gain After the Pain
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for this amazing panel!
9 Apr @17:00 CEST The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky
April 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for this amazing panel!
What if the new bilateral tariffs are just a natural experiment designed by the CEA economists to let trade economists get more credible estimates of trade elasticities? Nice opportunity in any case.
April 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
What if the new bilateral tariffs are just a natural experiment designed by the CEA economists to let trade economists get more credible estimates of trade elasticities? Nice opportunity in any case.
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A lot of how I used Twitter in the past was as a way of filing interesting research I came across: I used the advanced search function nearly daily to find old tweets with papers I'd shared.
It's good to see that BlueSky has similar advance search functionality! bsky.social/about/blog/0...
It's good to see that BlueSky has similar advance search functionality! bsky.social/about/blog/0...
April 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A lot of how I used Twitter in the past was as a way of filing interesting research I came across: I used the advanced search function nearly daily to find old tweets with papers I'd shared.
It's good to see that BlueSky has similar advance search functionality! bsky.social/about/blog/0...
It's good to see that BlueSky has similar advance search functionality! bsky.social/about/blog/0...
Looking forward to chairing this discussion and hearing the interventions from the participants and audience.
9 Apr @17:00 CEST The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky
April 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Looking forward to chairing this discussion and hearing the interventions from the participants and audience.
With tariffs of 25%, the USA will be either the country with the second highest tariff rate in the world after North Korea - or else the highest (N. Korea isn't reported in the World Bank, so who knows?) Going into autarky mode now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of countries by tariff rate - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
With tariffs of 25%, the USA will be either the country with the second highest tariff rate in the world after North Korea - or else the highest (N. Korea isn't reported in the World Bank, so who knows?) Going into autarky mode now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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9 Apr @17:00 CEST The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky
April 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
9 Apr @17:00 CEST The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky
Thanks to Donald Boudreaux for his review of my book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850". www.independent.org/publications...
Book Review | Book Review: One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850, by Christopher M. Meissner
Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux |
The title of Christopher Meissner’s book on globalization is brilliantly appropriate: One From the Many. It’s a deliberate reference to the Latin phrase familiar to...
www.independent.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thanks to Donald Boudreaux for his review of my book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850". www.independent.org/publications...
Tracks with the idea they want to take us back to the late 19th c.
The White House has referred to Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister of ‘Great Britain and Ireland’.
February 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Tracks with the idea they want to take us back to the late 19th c.
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If you’re the sort of person who reviews books for the press and you want a review copy of this. Do let me know.
Oh, and if you have a podcast and want a guest in late May/early June then yes, yes I will come on your podcast.
Oh, and if you have a podcast and want a guest in late May/early June then yes, yes I will come on your podcast.
February 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If you’re the sort of person who reviews books for the press and you want a review copy of this. Do let me know.
Oh, and if you have a podcast and want a guest in late May/early June then yes, yes I will come on your podcast.
Oh, and if you have a podcast and want a guest in late May/early June then yes, yes I will come on your podcast.
Uh, where’s theory on the plot?
Firstly, note that the gold standard of causality, RCTs, are used most frequently within Behavioural (20%) and Development (11%).
February 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Uh, where’s theory on the plot?
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Whatever else happens w/tariffs, mfg productivity doesn't rise #econsky
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
February 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Whatever else happens w/tariffs, mfg productivity doesn't rise #econsky
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
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Academics: Jevin and I would love to see this course used broadly around the world. Would you recommend publishing some sort of journal article about the course? (We don't need the publication for our CVs, but just want to get the word out.) If so, where would you target it?
Other promotion ideas?
Other promotion ideas?
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Academics: Jevin and I would love to see this course used broadly around the world. Would you recommend publishing some sort of journal article about the course? (We don't need the publication for our CVs, but just want to get the word out.) If so, where would you target it?
Other promotion ideas?
Other promotion ideas?
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A sign of the times . . . a whole podcast devoted William McKinley, infant industries, and tinplate from the Indicator at Planet Money
www.npr.org/2025/02/05/1...
www.npr.org/2025/02/05/1...
Trump's tariff role model : The Indicator from Planet Money
President Trump speaks fondly of William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was a strong advocate for tariffs. He's credited with helping to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th...
www.npr.org
February 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A sign of the times . . . a whole podcast devoted William McKinley, infant industries, and tinplate from the Indicator at Planet Money
www.npr.org/2025/02/05/1...
www.npr.org/2025/02/05/1...
My book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850" is out now on audio book. I have 3 free download codes. Reply to this post to get one. Check out: www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/on...
One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850
Amid a recent surge in arguments that the global economy has begun to 'de-globalize,' a question has emerged: will globalization survive? In One from the Many, Christopher M. Meissner argues that glob...
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January 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850" is out now on audio book. I have 3 free download codes. Reply to this post to get one. Check out: www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/on...
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The end of history viewpoint so prevalent in contemporary thought is dealt another severe blow: venal corruption and systematic corruption are back. This like other 'I didn't think that could happen again' moments underscore the value of economic history and history more generally.
January 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The end of history viewpoint so prevalent in contemporary thought is dealt another severe blow: venal corruption and systematic corruption are back. This like other 'I didn't think that could happen again' moments underscore the value of economic history and history more generally.