Did settler mortality shape colonial institutions—or did imperial hunger for power and resources matter more? Talha Mahmood challenges a celebrated theory of colonial development. 📚
www.thefridaytimes.com/17-Oct-2026/...
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@thefridaytimes.bsky.socialDid settler mortality shape colonial institutions—or did imperial hunger for power and resources matter more? Talha Mahmood challenges a celebrated theory of colonial development. 📚
www.thefridaytimes.com/17-Oct-2026/...
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@whep-erc.bsky.socialMeet the WHEP Team: Álvaro Álvarez 🗺️📖🔍📋🦖 PhD candidate digitizing historical agricultural databases, focusing on the records of the International Institute of Agriculture and the FAO from 1900 to 1960 #FoodHistory #EconomicHistory #OpenData #Agriculture #PhDlife
@papaerc.bsky.socialJoin the Uni Trier Early Modern History Colloquium this Thursday
For Zoom link write to: [email protected]
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@irwincollier.bsky.social#EconSky #HarvardEconomics #EconomicHistory European economic life from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution was the subject of this graduate course in economic history taught at Harvard 1912-13 by Howard Levi Gray. Exams transcribed for this course. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-euro...
@davidkotok.bsky.socialThe writing and research in this book are the culmination of over a half century’s focus on disease and epidemic and pandemic events and their economic impacts.
www.thefedandtheflu.com #Pandemics #Economics #TheFed
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@wallstreetramen.comOctober 7, 2026.
Ten-year notes sold at 5.300%, the highest since 2000, and the buyers came. The S&P 500, under its August record all morning, closed over it: its second-highest close ever.
S&P 500 7,801.77, −0.22%
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-10-07
🗃️ #history #EconomicHistory
@wallstreetramen.comOctober 6, 2026.
The S&P 500's first trade on Tuesday was already above the August record it had chased for 36 sessions, and it was the day's low. It never went back. A record close.
S&P 500 7,818.93, +0.58%
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-10-06
🗃️ #history #EconomicHistory
@wallstreetramen.comOctober 5, 2026.
Schneider Electric bid $205 a share for PTC; PTC closed at $192.26. RXO closed under its bid too. The S&P 500 climbed all day toward its August record and stopped 4.64 short.
S&P 500 7,773.95, +0.66%
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-10-05
🗃️ #history #EconomicHistory
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@tenuretracker.bsky.socialUniversita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza is hiring:
Postdoctoral Researcher in Health, Living Standards and Regional Inequalities in Italy
@michael-fuchs83.bsky.socialA map of Europe showing the spread of industrialisation in the 19th and early 20th century.
@wallstreetramen.comThe week of September 28 – October 2, 2026.
Every session closed below its open. The week rose only while the market was shut: +87.07 overnight, −107.76 by day.
S&P 500 7,722.72, −0.27%
The photograph from that week:
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/weeks/2026-10-02
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@wallstreetramen.comOctober 2, 2026.
29,000 jobs in September against 84,000 expected, and July — first a loss, then a gain — a loss again. The S&P 500 opened 59.79 higher and spent the day handing 3.52 back.
S&P 500 7,722.72, +0.73%
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-10-02
🗃️ #history #EconomicHistory
@wallstreetramen.comOctober 1, 2026.
The S&P 500 opened at 7,666.47, fell 49.69, rose 18.28 above its start, and closed at 7,666.45 — two cents from its first trade. Accenture was on its best day ever until 3:55.
S&P 500 7,666.45, +0.19%
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-10-01
🗃️ #history #EconomicHistory
@wallstreetramen.comSeptember 30, 2026.
Inflation came in cooler. The S&P 500 spent 384 of 390 minutes above Tuesday's close. At ten to four on the quarter's last day it began to fall, and closed at the day's low.
S&P 500 7,651.54, −0.25%
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-09-30
🗃️ #history #EconomicHistory
@wallstreetramen.comSeptember 29, 2026.
Consumer confidence fell to its lowest since 2014. One line in the survey went the other way: vacation plans held up. Carnival rose 13% on record bookings.
S&P 500 7,670.84, −0.17%
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-09-29
🗃️ #history #EconomicHistory
@sal-ai.bsky.socialCheck out the latest article in my newsletter: The Old Lady and the Iron Fever www.linkedin.com/pulse/old-la... via @LinkedIn #ArtificialIntelligence #FinancialStability #AIInfrastructure #EconomicHistory #BankOfEngland #London #UK #AI
@wallstreetramen.comSeptember 28, 2026.
MongoDB’s chief executive left for Meta, effective immediately. At 12:16 the S&P 500 rose 40 points in twelve minutes, to 19 short of Friday. By four all of it was gone.
S&P 500 7,683.69, −0.77%
https://www.wallstreetramen.com/days/2026-09-28
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