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'.
This week's post 'Hotel Life' is actually coming from Chicago, where I am doing archival work. It reflects, from my own long-stay hotel-room, on the 1920s fear that the rich and upper middle-class would give up their homes to live in hotels.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life
November 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This week's post 'Hotel Life' is actually coming from Chicago, where I am doing archival work. It reflects, from my own long-stay hotel-room, on the 1920s fear that the rich and upper middle-class would give up their homes to live in hotels.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life
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-...
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 post tells the story of Joseph D. Lohman who could not defend his dissertation because of death threats from the gang he had studied.
Chicago sociologists did much to 'normalize' crime, but this for them too must have been unusual.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/on-not-fin...
Chicago sociologists did much to 'normalize' crime, but this for them too must have been unusual.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/on-not-fin...
October 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This week's post tells the story of Joseph D. Lohman who could not defend his dissertation because of death threats from the gang he had studied.
Chicago sociologists did much to 'normalize' crime, but this for them too must have been unusual.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/on-not-fin...
Chicago sociologists did much to 'normalize' crime, but this for them too must have been unusual.
seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/on-not-fin...
Was sent a very nice image from the WINIR conference in Prague
September 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Was sent a very nice image from the WINIR conference in Prague
Het antwoord over de vragen over een mogelijke euro zijn zeker interessant: Tegen een euro, voor verplichte acceptatie van buitenlandse munten binnen de EEG.
August 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Het antwoord over de vragen over een mogelijke euro zijn zeker interessant: Tegen een euro, voor verplichte acceptatie van buitenlandse munten binnen de EEG.
Hayek in het Nederlands, interview uit FEM, 1975
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Hayek in het Nederlands, interview uit FEM, 1975
What is the source of that quote?
And yes, I think there are various interesting continuities.
I have previously quoted the following on the purpose of Weber's course on economics:
And yes, I think there are various interesting continuities.
I have previously quoted the following on the purpose of Weber's course on economics:
August 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What is the source of that quote?
And yes, I think there are various interesting continuities.
I have previously quoted the following on the purpose of Weber's course on economics:
And yes, I think there are various interesting continuities.
I have previously quoted the following on the purpose of Weber's course on economics:
Day 2 of Liberalism for the 21st century. Kicking the day off with perspectives on liberal internationalism.
Organized by the Unpopulist and the Institute for the study of modern Authoritarianism
#libcon25
Organized by the Unpopulist and the Institute for the study of modern Authoritarianism
#libcon25
August 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Day 2 of Liberalism for the 21st century. Kicking the day off with perspectives on liberal internationalism.
Organized by the Unpopulist and the Institute for the study of modern Authoritarianism
#libcon25
Organized by the Unpopulist and the Institute for the study of modern Authoritarianism
#libcon25
Not the most humble post, but I am very happy to have reached the milestone of 1,000 citations on Google Scholar, with the help of many co-authors, most importantly @pavelkuchar.bsky.social, also Blaz Remic, Carolina Dalla Chiesa, @juliengradoz.bsky.social, Valeria Morea, and so many others.
July 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Not the most humble post, but I am very happy to have reached the milestone of 1,000 citations on Google Scholar, with the help of many co-authors, most importantly @pavelkuchar.bsky.social, also Blaz Remic, Carolina Dalla Chiesa, @juliengradoz.bsky.social, Valeria Morea, and so many others.
From being a somewhat lost undergraduate at UvA (Amsterdam) to giving a talk at UVA (Virginia). And had a great guide in Gerald Alexander who explained Jefferson's open campus design, as a metaphor for an open culture of knowledge
April 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
From being a somewhat lost undergraduate at UvA (Amsterdam) to giving a talk at UVA (Virginia). And had a great guide in Gerald Alexander who explained Jefferson's open campus design, as a metaphor for an open culture of knowledge
Bedtime reading: Read Harry Potter to the youngest, read a chapter together with our middle one from the funny 'Two Miserable Presidents' by Steve Sheinkin, and finished with some chapters from the (so-far) excellent 'Nowhere Boy' by Katherine Marsh with the oldest.
Now on to my own book.
Now on to my own book.
February 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Bedtime reading: Read Harry Potter to the youngest, read a chapter together with our middle one from the funny 'Two Miserable Presidents' by Steve Sheinkin, and finished with some chapters from the (so-far) excellent 'Nowhere Boy' by Katherine Marsh with the oldest.
Now on to my own book.
Now on to my own book.
Alexander Linsbichler opening the second day of Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics workshop at the University of Vienna
February 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Alexander Linsbichler opening the second day of Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics workshop at the University of Vienna
4E Cognition and Economics workshop in Memphis, TN, hosted by Shaun Gallagher
November 14, 2024 at 6:24 PM
4E Cognition and Economics workshop in Memphis, TN, hosted by Shaun Gallagher
In today's NYT there's this two pages spread. I am Dutch, live in the U.S. and love art, but still find the whole thing oddly out of touch. Also why frame it like a form of blackmail: "conditional on Trump's loss"
October 20, 2024 at 1:28 PM
In today's NYT there's this two pages spread. I am Dutch, live in the U.S. and love art, but still find the whole thing oddly out of touch. Also why frame it like a form of blackmail: "conditional on Trump's loss"
Andre Quintas presenting joint work on populism and signaling. Arguing that some of the extremism and rhetoric of populist is driven more by signaling distance from established parties than underlying voter preferences.
October 13, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Andre Quintas presenting joint work on populism and signaling. Arguing that some of the extremism and rhetoric of populist is driven more by signaling distance from established parties than underlying voter preferences.
No taxation without misreprensetation
March 27, 2024 at 1:08 PM
No taxation without misreprensetation
One of the great joys of working in the Mercatus Fellowships is that I get to work with graduate student from all fields in the social sciences and humanities. This new edited volume collects some of their work.
Hayek's contemporaries quipped that he never used 'for example'. This volume provides
Hayek's contemporaries quipped that he never used 'for example'. This volume provides
December 1, 2023 at 2:49 PM
One of the great joys of working in the Mercatus Fellowships is that I get to work with graduate student from all fields in the social sciences and humanities. This new edited volume collects some of their work.
Hayek's contemporaries quipped that he never used 'for example'. This volume provides
Hayek's contemporaries quipped that he never used 'for example'. This volume provides
Not endorsing, but interesting to see that the critique of cultural Marxism going around today was also leveled in the 1970s. Here from Helmut Schelsky
November 10, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Not endorsing, but interesting to see that the critique of cultural Marxism going around today was also leveled in the 1970s. Here from Helmut Schelsky
We develop a Hotelling inspired model of moral positioning for firms.
November 9, 2023 at 2:18 PM
We develop a Hotelling inspired model of moral positioning for firms.
Mikayla Novak presenting her paper at the Mercatus Markets and Society conference: The Market as Queer Social Space, during the Rainbow Liberty session
October 22, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Mikayla Novak presenting her paper at the Mercatus Markets and Society conference: The Market as Queer Social Space, during the Rainbow Liberty session
Not sure if I already have many Turkish connections here. But this volume has just come out, a history in 100 fragments. I contributed a short chapter on the State Planning Organization (designed by Jan Tinbergen).
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...
October 13, 2023 at 9:05 PM
Not sure if I already have many Turkish connections here. But this volume has just come out, a history in 100 fragments. I contributed a short chapter on the State Planning Organization (designed by Jan Tinbergen).
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...
A fascinating piece of radical interpretation of the logic of supply and demand. Since workers supply labor time, they can lower supply and increase price by supplying fewer hours through an eight-hour work day. Even up to the point that fewer hours would result in higher net wages.
September 11, 2023 at 1:39 AM
A fascinating piece of radical interpretation of the logic of supply and demand. Since workers supply labor time, they can lower supply and increase price by supplying fewer hours through an eight-hour work day. Even up to the point that fewer hours would result in higher net wages.