The Origin of Banking (2016)

Re:The Origin of Banking (2016) by eigenvalue on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @08:59AM (#20343896)

Link rot for academic sources is ridiculous. Several of the links to academic paper PDFs are broken. There really should be a better way of dealing with this. I guess university IT departments remove user accounts when a professor or researcher leaves the school, and that results in deletion of all files on their personal academic sites. Would be nice if there was an accepted, standard way of "rolling over" these files to the next school where the person ends up.

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Re:The Origin of Banking (2016) by throw0101a on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @09:12AM (#20343980)

I think that's why DOIs were created:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier

Also: archive.org

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Re:The Origin of Banking (2016) by Breza on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:13PM (#20345667)

DOIs and complete citations go a long way toward addressing this problem.

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Re:The Origin of Banking (2016) by sampo on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @10:46AM (#20344700)

I think the main problem is the posted document referring to sources without giving even the title of the papers it refers to. Only a link, nothing else. This a very non-standard way to use references.

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Re:The Origin of Banking (2016) by dredmorbius on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:48PM (#20347356)

A practice I very much wish would go away, for precisely these reasons.

I've taken flack for writing footnoted HN & G+ posts, even Mastodon toots. I can take the flack.

Bibliographic citations emerged for reasons. Those reasons. remain.

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Re:The Origin of Banking (2016) by vngzs on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:41PM (#20347955)

Here are a couple of the broken links:

"EARLY DEPOSIT BANKING", Meir Kohn: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/6/116...

"Bagehot was a Shadow Banker: Shadow Banking, Central Banking, and the Future of Global Finance": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2232016

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Re:The Origin of Banking (2016) by jonathanstray on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:14PM (#20415344)

Thanks for this. I have updated the broken links.

While I do appreciate the role of a proper citation, I'm reluctant to do it for blog posts (as opposed to my actual papers) both because it's time consuming and because for most people, links are a more natural and readable format.

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