Karl Joachim Brende
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Karl Joachim Brende
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Visiting Research Fellow at BI Norwegian Business School previously @UniOslo, @UCBerkeley with a focus on Economic History, early modern history, informal credit, networks, and digital history.

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Did you eat butter this Easter? Was it Lurpak? 🧈 New publication in Business History. It naturally leads to a little reflection I would like to share with you. And it also leads to a small corner of economic history that needs reinterpretation🧵
April 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The key chart right now:

Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.

This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.
April 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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New on the GPIH website: Elena Korchmina's dataset of wages, prices, and living standards for Moscow, 1553-1851! #econsky #econhistory
February 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Institutions and trade during the first globalization

Our Max Weber Fellow Juan José Rivas Moreno recently published a book on the capital market of Manila and the Pacific trade #17thcentury - #19thcentury 👉 loom.ly/_uXwP3A

📚 #EconomicHistory #TradeHistory #skystorians
January 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM