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The disparity between Ireland's railways in the the 1920s and 2020s has been subject to much criticism online. But what was the impact of having such an expansive rail network on the Irish economy in the 19th and 20th century? And, was this impact always positive? 1/11 
Railways revolutionised transport in 19th C. Ireland. In a new WP (quceh.org.uk/uploads/1/0/5/…), @ronanlyons & Alan Fernihough investigate the economic consequences of this expansive rail network for the island of Ireland. 2/11 #econtwitter #econhistory #irishhistory
They began by considering ‘market’ access, a term which measures how easy, in time and money, it is to go from A to B and from A to C. They then measured ‘port access’, showing how easy it was to get from A to P(ort). 3/11
To soothe the anthropologist and journalist in me, I joined @epw_in’s Engage in 2019, where I got the space to build visual narratives of academic articles & deep-dive into EPW’s Archives to curate exhaustive reading lists.
Here's a #thread of some of the cool work I got to do.
Here's a #thread of some of the cool work I got to do.
Designed by @lalposter, here's an illustration I curated of @durbakatha & @mrinalsatish’s eye-opening research on how evidencing of rape in S. Asia is embedded in colonial assumptions, and perpetuates stereotypes of women, their character and bodies. bit.ly/2UCeqsq
How has the trauma of the Partition been internalised by India's collective conscious? This timeline is based on Gita Viswanath's and Salma Malik's research on how the Partition came to be depicted through Hindi cinema. bit.ly/2J3qa1O
Grad students with #econhistory ideas: I’ll send you feedback if you email me 1 page about the question, data (available or acquirable), research design, main concerns, and how you aim to address those. Multiple 1-pagers better. All encouraged, please spread word. #EconTwitter
Clarifications: the goal is finding ideas that "could" become your PhD job market paper and be published in “general interest” econ journals – you can do it! You may be pre-PhD... but that’s the scale/scope expected. Junior faculty can also reach out. Question-Data-Approach.
An "idea" is when you have connected items from 3 pots. Pot 1: questions of importance and interest to you. Pot 2: data you could reasonably acquire. Pot 3: empirical methods / research designs. You can iterate rather than pick one item precisely before thinking of other pots.
