What I see when I get a moment to pause and make a little sense of the world
TL;DR: I review “The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries,” by Leander Heldring, James Robinson, and Sebastian Vollmer. I laud the paper’s data collection, research question, and design and definitely buy the main results on social change and commercialization.
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The story told by the Ruthwell Cross, a monument sitting outside what may have been either a small church or monastery in what’s now Scotland, far from any center of power, incorporates men, women, and children, merchants from far away, peasants, and kings.
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Front Porch Reflections 