Erik Grimmer-Solem
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@grimmer_solem
Author of Learning Empire (Cambridge UP 2019), Professor of History at Wesleyan University, historian of Germany and the world, Weltmensch.
In addition to the gender ratio here, I have some feelings about not having been invited to contribute to this volume considering I presented at the Einstein Forum back in October. In fact, I'm the only one of the symposium participants that isn't included.....
Just realized that I never noted the passing of Sir E. A. Wrigley, the legendary British demographer and economic historian, on February 24. Here's a short thread on someone whose research and writing made a big difference to the way that I think about the Industrial Revolution.
Battered by skyrocketing gas prices, companies in Europe that make steel, fertilizer and other feedstocks of economic activity are shifting operations to the U.S., attracted by more stable energy prices and muscular government support. wsj.com/articles/high-…
