They've spent the past few years busily publishing on the history of debt and financial crises, and among their most notable findings is that in many cases, recessions in the wake of financial crises are deeper, longer, and generally more painful than other downturns.
I have worked in eastern Uganda for a number of years and have published on the history, politics and religion of the area.
A book published last year on the history of the gay rights issue at the Supreme Court, "Courting Justice," by Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price, asserted that there have been at least 22 gay law clerks at the court, and that in each of six consecutive terms in the 1980's, one of Justice Powell's four law clerks was gay.
"The striking thing about SAC has always been its extraordinary performance in the absence of any identifiable special sauce," said Sebastian Mallaby, the author of "More Money Than God," a book published last year on the history of hedge funds.
"It's as if a lieutenant colonel in the American Army had spied for Al Qaeda," said Yossi Melman, the author of a newly published book on the history of counterespionage in Israel.
He also published books on the history of the college and its collections: The History of the Trustees of the Hunterian Collection (1965); and The Artistic Possessions at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1968).
Following his retirement from active politics, Oaten published two books, one on the history of coalition governments and the other a memoir entitled Screwing Up: How One MP Survived Politics, Scandal and Turning 40.
OUR sister blog, The Economist Explains, has just published a post on the history of cricket in India.
He published a book on the history of shorthand, and evidently viewed sound recording as an extension of stenography.
