Publications, May

May has been an interesting and an altogether decent month. My Mr. Darcy piece got translated into Spanish and published in the Mexican magazine  Letras Libres; together with my other Financial Instrument piece from April, it remains the most read piece on Notes for the last month – admittedly during two rather slow months among my fellow Note-writers.

Notes On Liberty: (see all my posts here)

• [1] 'Economists, Economic History, and Theory', captured some reflections over Mattias Blum & Chris Colvin’s excellent An Economist’s Guide to Economic History that I had a chance to look through the other week.
• [2] 'Those revenue-raising early central banks', where I take issue with the "Fiscal Theory of Central Banks", i.e. that proto-central banks were established to fund their governments only.
• Featured at Macrohive.
• Mentioned (next to some flattering company) on the (Hungarian) Institute for Economics' site. 
• [3] 'Ok, Americans - here is your Eurovision guide', admittedly a little off-topic to what I normally write, but Americans are woefully unaware of the wonders of Eurovision so desperate times called for desperate measures. 

American Institute for Economic Research (all my pieces here)

• [4] 'There is No Such Thing as Harmful Speculation', despite its click-baity title I dealt with the rather serious issue of the benefits to society from financially speculative transactions. 
• [5] 'Two Grand Traditions in Financial History', is a piece of finance-history overload; if banks, financial deepening, financial development and London-vs-Amsterdam contrasts is your thing – this is the piece for you.
• Update (2019-09-26): recently translated into Polish, apparently: "Dwie ważne tradycje w historii finansów"
• Discussed and cited on the Mostly Economics blog.

Mises Institute (all my pieces here)

• [6] 'Central Banks' Forecasts Are Basically Garbage', another very click-baity title included some serious content: why is it that the numerous forecasts of ECB, the Fed and the Riksbank have been so unidirectionally wrong in recent years? Oh, and in the nature of financial animals, I launch the term "Hedgehog Graphs" to describe this tendency. 
• Re-shared by l2com.eu 
• Re-published by Free World Econ Report and BiblicalEconomics of all places...