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Credit and land from below: the accidental but successful experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century
13 Oct, 2022
By Rosa Congost (University of Girona), Ricard Garcia-Orallo (University of Barcelona), and Enric Saguer (University of Girona) This blog...
The socio-economic factors in the preconditions for the development of localism in Hong Kong, 1950-81
10 Oct, 2022
by Zongyue Liu (University of Oxford) This blog is based upon a grant awarded by the Economic History Society...
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Hidden investors: what joint shareholders tell us about social institutions and inheritance
5 Oct, 2022
by Janette Rutterford (Open University), Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos (Open University), and Carry van Lieshout (Open University) This blog post...
Making the census count – and accountable
3 Oct, 2022
by Richard Rodger (Edinburgh University) The author is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at Edinburgh University and...
A small remark with big consequences: what sparked Black Wednesday?
30 Sep, 2022
by Alain Naef (Banque de France) The author is an economist at the Banque de France and cofounder of...
How the Bank of England assisted in the formation of a fiscal-military state in Britain, paving the way for the Industrial Revolution
28 Sep, 2022
by Patrick O’Brien (LSE) and Nuno Palma (University of Manchester, ICS-UL, CEPR) This blog post is based upon the...
Ottoman Political Economies
26 Sep, 2022
by Camille Lyans Cole (University of Cambridge) and Peter Hill (Northumbria University) This blog is based upon a grant...
An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800-1913
23 Sep, 2022
by Seán Kenny (University College Cork), Jason Lennard (LSE), and Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke (NYU Abu Dhabi) This blog post...
Changing the perception of time: transportation networks and the rise of the knowledge economy in nineteenth-century France
21 Sep, 2022
by Georgios Tsiachtsiras (University of Bath) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
‘More Akin to the Monkey than the Man’: race and labour in the Indian indenture trade
8 Sep, 2022
by Purba Hossain (Institute of Historical Research, London) This blog is based upon a grant awarded by the Economic...
Consumer revolution, global goods, and proto-industry in north-western Germany from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
1 Sep, 2022
by Henning Bovenkerk (University of Münster) and Christine Fertig (University of Münster) This blog post is based upon the...
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Serbia on the path to modern economic growth
31 Aug, 2022
by Milan Zavadjil (International Monetary Fund, retired) This blog post is based upon the author’s article (co-authored with Boško...
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