The NEP-HIS Blog | Discussion and comment on the latest research in business, economic and financial history
All good things come to an end – and every blog must too, as personal sites become scarcer and scarcer and professional or hosted blogs jostle them aside. So this is the last of hundreds of posts on this site. We hope they’ve been illuminating, enlightening – and sometimes infuriating.
It’s exactly ten years today since ‘Public Policy and the Past’ started up, and this is as good a time as any to bring down the curtain – because of a suitable anniversary if nothing else, but also because the practice of readable, historical, data-heavy and self-critical reflection is even more common these days.
You can read that in lots of places : you don’t need some amateur on Blogger filling up your day. That said, it’s been a real ride, we’ve learned a lot, and we hope you have too. Today, ten years after the words started to flow (or chafe), hopefully it’s a suitable summing up to look back on what we said, what was right, what was wrong – and more importantly, why. Let’s not waste your time too much – let’s keep it to four headings.
The NEP-HIS Blog | Discussion and comment on the latest research in business, economic and financial history