Rick Hornbeck
@rickhornbeck.bsky.social
Economist, Economic Historian. Soccer Dad, Climber Dad. https://voices.uchicago.edu/richardhornbeck/
this is wild, and a beautiful (simple!) website to boot
Rick Hornbeck@rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 12mo agoHi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Rick, you dropped this. 👑 Seriously what an incredible data project!
Rick Hornbeck@rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 12mo agoHi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
man this is so exciting
Rick Hornbeck@rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 12mo agoHi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Amazing public good release by @rickhornbeck.bsky.social and his collaborators! No doubt this will generate even more (interesting) #econhist research about the United States.
Rick Hornbeck@rickhornbeck.bsky.social · 12mo agoHi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
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Just in time for #Juneteenth my new article “Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty” is now out in the Journal of Historical Political Economy. TL; DR: freedom was only the first step in creating citizenship. www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
now publishers - Creating Citizen–Subjects: Reconstruction and the Political Invention of Black Sovereignty
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NEW PAPER: "Examining the role of training data for supervised methods of automated record linkage: Lessons for best practice in economic history" with Jonas Helgertz and Joe Price now forthcoming (and nicely proofed) at Explorations in Economic History 🧵 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kiv03I~dW...
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So excited to share new work on the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era, joint with @rickhornbeck.bsky.social, Daniel Keniston, and Benjamin Lualdi! nber.org/papers/w33502
The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction
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NBER@nber.org · 2y agoExamining the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era finds that people with the same skin tone were racialized based on their wealth, setting a path for racial stratification, from @aadukia.bsky.social, Hornbeck, Keniston, and Lualdi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33502
Excited to share this new paper on how race was constructed along socioeconomic lines in US history, during a period of unfulfilled potential for social change between emancipation and Jim Crow segregation
NBER@nber.org · 2y agoExamining the social construction of race during the US Reconstruction Era finds that people with the same skin tone were racialized based on their wealth, setting a path for racial stratification, from @aadukia.bsky.social, Hornbeck, Keniston, and Lualdi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33502
Super cool to see a paper like this as an NBER working paper. I haven't tracked it systematically, but I think there's a lot more of this style of work on race and racism in econ now than when I started paying attention to the field in the 2000s. www.nber.org/papers/w33502
The Social Construction of Race during Reconstruction
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...
nber.org