energy 4
- England's deforestation was a consequence of cheap coal rather than its cause.
- England switched from wood to coal because deforestation had made firewood scarce.
Anton Howes
Historian of innovation, writing the newsletter Age of Invention on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and on how inventions actually came about.
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metascience 4
- Economics journals have made large datasets and heavy statistics the price of making any causal claim at all, which has squeezed qualitative economic history out of the field.
- The field of history runs on a trust it has not earned: almost nobody ever checks a citation, so an error can propagate unchallenged indefinitely.
peer review 2
- History has a reproducibility problem worse than science’s replication crisis, because hardly anyone ever goes back to the sources to check what a historian claimed they say.
- Economics journals have made large datasets and heavy statistics the price of making any causal claim at all, which has squeezed qualitative economic history out of the field.