#50 - Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? The follies of persistence studies - w/ Abad and Maurer

<p>In this episode, <a href="http://www.arroyoabad.com/"><u>Prof. Leticia Arroyo Abad</u></a> and<a href="https://business.gwu.edu/noel-maurer"> <u>Prof. Noel Maurer</u></a> speak to<a href="https://sites.uw.edu/uwpoliticaleconomy/nicolas-wittstock/"> <u>Nicolas Wittstock</u></a> to present their criticisms of “persistence studies” - accounts of economic history that seek to explain present conditions by evaluating the causal effect of things that happened long ago.</p>