Erwin Dekker
@erwindekker.bsky.social
Historian of economics, culture and econ, author of 'Realizing the Values of Art' the biography of 'Jan Tinbergen and the Rise of Economic Expertise' and 'Viennese Students of Civilization'.
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The perfect symbol of a rigged economy
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
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November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The perfect symbol of a rigged economy
The perfect symbol of a rigged economy
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The perfect symbol of a rigged economy
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This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
The Age of Reform (1)
Reading Hofdstadter's classic from Bryan to FDR
seeinglikechicago.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
The Age of Reform (1)
Reading Hofdstadter's classic from Bryan to FDR
seeinglikechicago.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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New paper alert
Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access!
In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access!
In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
Toward an Austrian theory of the self - The Review of Austrian Economics
One of the key distinguishing features of Austrian economics is subjectivism. Subjectivism has been understood as the foundation for why individuals are different from each other, and as a basis for i...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New paper alert
Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access!
In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access!
In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
New paper alert
Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access!
In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access!
In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
Toward an Austrian theory of the self - The Review of Austrian Economics
One of the key distinguishing features of Austrian economics is subjectivism. Subjectivism has been understood as the foundation for why individuals are different from each other, and as a basis for i...
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New paper alert
Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access!
In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access!
In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
This week's Seeing like Chicago post talks about the importance of 'seeing through the eyes of others' and how it became a moral-political project among sociologists. With several shout-outs to the great new book Liberal Emancipation by Mikayla Novak.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/seeing-thr...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/seeing-thr...
Seeing through the eyes of others
Emancipation and social science
seeinglikechicago.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This week's Seeing like Chicago post talks about the importance of 'seeing through the eyes of others' and how it became a moral-political project among sociologists. With several shout-outs to the great new book Liberal Emancipation by Mikayla Novak.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/seeing-thr...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/seeing-thr...
Among the suspected effects are a higher frequency of tropical storms, which scientists earlier linked to climate change.
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4hxHgEh
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Among the suspected effects are a higher frequency of tropical storms, which scientists earlier linked to climate change.
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I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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New Seeing Like Chicago post discusses real and imagined differences between the city and countryside. With a discussion of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Albert Blumenthal's Small Town Stuff
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New Seeing Like Chicago post discusses real and imagined differences between the city and countryside. With a discussion of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Albert Blumenthal's Small Town Stuff
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
New Seeing Like Chicago post discusses real and imagined differences between the city and countryside. With a discussion of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Albert Blumenthal's Small Town Stuff
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New Seeing Like Chicago post discusses real and imagined differences between the city and countryside. With a discussion of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Albert Blumenthal's Small Town Stuff
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-rural-...
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The 7 million Americans who took the streets for 'No Kings' made history, and they did something even more important
They got under the skin of Donald Trump and his dictatorial regime, on a day that showed that most Americans love democracy instead
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...
They got under the skin of Donald Trump and his dictatorial regime, on a day that showed that most Americans love democracy instead
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...
Then they fight you: How the No Kings protests are winning America | Will Bunch
A massive turnout of 7 million and a panicked White House showed Saturday why the No Kings protests matter, a lot.
www.inquirer.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The 7 million Americans who took the streets for 'No Kings' made history, and they did something even more important
They got under the skin of Donald Trump and his dictatorial regime, on a day that showed that most Americans love democracy instead
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...
They got under the skin of Donald Trump and his dictatorial regime, on a day that showed that most Americans love democracy instead
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...
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This week's Seeing Like Chicago's post discusses some very surprising links between the Studs Lonigan trilogy (a coming of age story about the Irish-American Studs) and hip-hop culture, including a 1920's Dapper Dan O'Doul.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This week's Seeing Like Chicago's post discusses some very surprising links between the Studs Lonigan trilogy (a coming of age story about the Irish-American Studs) and hip-hop culture, including a 1920's Dapper Dan O'Doul.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...
This week's Seeing Like Chicago's post discusses some very surprising links between the Studs Lonigan trilogy (a coming of age story about the Irish-American Studs) and hip-hop culture, including a 1920's Dapper Dan O'Doul.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This week's Seeing Like Chicago's post discusses some very surprising links between the Studs Lonigan trilogy (a coming of age story about the Irish-American Studs) and hip-hop culture, including a 1920's Dapper Dan O'Doul.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/chicagos-s...
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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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October 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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.
Or simply, how institutional racism was understood in the 1940s.
From Native Son to Ethnomethodology
On Richard Wright and Harold Garfinkel
seeinglikechicago.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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.
Or simply, how institutional racism was understood in the 1940s.
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.
Or simply, how institutional racism was understood in the 1940s.
From Native Son to Ethnomethodology
On Richard Wright and Harold Garfinkel
seeinglikechicago.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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.
Or simply, how institutional racism was understood in the 1940s.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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
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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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October 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Rousseau, Adaptive Preferences, and Social Entrepeneurship
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Shout outs to @erwindekker.bsky.social, @lastpositivist.bsky.social, @serenekhader.bsky.social
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Shout outs to @erwindekker.bsky.social, @lastpositivist.bsky.social, @serenekhader.bsky.social
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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.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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...
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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
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“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.”