Weltinnenpolitik
Analysis and writing at the intersection of history and geoeconomics.
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Reading Max Weber in the Age of AI (opens the original)
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This semester I am teaching a seminar on Max Weber at Cornell. Weber (1864-1920) is a thinker who has long fascinated me: a jack-of-all-trades who worked on law, economics, history, sociology, political theory, and religion, but also a difficult and diffuse figure who never produced one major work that defined his thought as a coherent system. Calling yourself a Weberian does not clearly define a worldview in the way that calling yourself a Marxist, a Rawlsian, a Georgist or a Friedmanite does.
The Pitfalls of Proprietarianism (opens the original)
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If you’ve taken August off, I salute you. But if you’ve been at all online, chances are you caught some of the buzz surrounding the Economist’s diatribe against MIT economist and Nobel winner Daron Acemoglu that came out on August 17th. Written in a somewhat sophomoric style, it combined in a rather unconvincing manner a mixture of snide, unsustained criticisms of Acemoglu’s work with some unvarnished envy.<a class="image-link
Debt repatriation and the First World War (opens the original)
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The origins of the First World War are the single largest publication topic in all modern European historiography. Something on the order of 25,000 books and articles have been written about it. Is it still possible to produce anything that is worth reading on this question?It is, in my view. The literature on this topic is highly clustered around particular factors, and heavily tilted towards military and diplomatic history. Oceans of ink have been spilled on quite small aspects of the July Cri
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