William Goetzmann
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@WGoetzmann
Finance professor, Yale School of Management. Tweets on finance, art, history and society.
UT Austin students are protesting tonight after the university announced late last week it will be consolidating some departments such as African and American studies, Mexican American studies, and a few others into a new department, which could impact their major and degree.
@Empty_America The seeds of Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel in Crosby’s 1972. Interestingly, supposedly no one knew what to do w Crosby & his biological history studies in early 70s, so someone managed to stick him in the American Studies dept at UT Austin. Great for scholarship they did
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half jointly to Aghion and Howitt “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.” #NobelPrize
