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Modern Bills Revisited chez Cantillon
In a recent course at Mimbres School, the students and I considered Richard Cantillon’s Essay on the Nature of Commerce in General, which contains some…
Oct 30
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September 2025
Crediting Conspiracy
Like many others, half a decade ago I would have (and did) regard the claim that the world is run by a cabal of elite sex-trafficking pedophiles as the…
Sep 13
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July 2025
Confronting Peasants
Part I: The Vanishing
Published on Intellectual Arbitrage
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Jul 25
September 2024
Corrections, Updates
Hello dear readers,
Sep 3, 2024
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Colin Drumm
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October 2023
On the Value Concept (part 1)
(This essay represents a sort of report on the main trajectory of my research this year, which has concerned an attempt to trace the intellectual…
Oct 17, 2023
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January 2023
On Guilds, etc (part 2)
(I’d like to begin by thanking James Davis at Queen’s University, Belfast for his useful response to an email query that sped this second half of the…
Jan 18, 2023
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Colin Drumm
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December 2022
On Guilds (etc.)
Part I
Dec 6, 2022
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August 2022
Mythology, Methodology, and Medievalisms
Today’s post is a shorter “meta” post in which I will offer some reflections on methodology and the future of this blog.
Aug 16, 2022
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Bills of Exchange, Medieval and Modern
[9/3/24: This post has been edited to correct a mistake in terminology that used the term “deliverer” in a wrong way.
Aug 10, 2022
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June 2022
Keynes in Stagira: Stefan Eich’s The Currency of Politics
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Jun 3, 2022
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January 2021
The Myth of the Stakeholder: Part 2
In this letter, the second part of my critique of the “stakeholder myth” forwarded by Christine Desan and other chartalist writers as a replacement for…
Jan 10, 2021
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Colin Drumm
The Stakeholder Myth: Part 1
In this letter, I continue my analysis of Christine Desan’s chapter in Money and the Western Legal Tradition edited by Fox and Ernst.
Jan 8, 2021
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