The Long Run Blog - Economic History Society

Were settlers on the Cape Colony wealthier than Americans around the year 1800?

19 Aug, 2022

by Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University) and Frank Garmon Jr. (Christopher Newport University) This blog post is based upon the...

The early bird catches the worm? Timing, location, and wealth accumulation among settlers at a colonial frontier

18 Aug, 2022

by Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University), Erik Green (Lund University and Stellenbosch University), and Robert Ross (Leiden University and Stellenbosch...

Energy and the industrial revolution in the Low Countries

16 Aug, 2022

by Wouter Ryckbosch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & Wout Saelens (Universiteit Antwerpen) This blog post is based upon the authors’...

Inflation: policy lessons from the 1920s

12 Aug, 2022

by Aaron Jacob The author was previously a District Councillor in St Albans. He holds a Masters degree in...

Does trade liberalization boost innovation? Evidence from French industrial sectors in the nineteenth century

11 Aug, 2022

by Carla Salvo (Sapienza University of Rome) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic...

Real wages in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1540-1830

9 Aug, 2022

by Tancredi Buscemi (University of Perugia) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...

Economic history and interdisciplinarity: lessons from the Antipodes

28 Jul, 2022

by Claire E. F. Wright (University of Technology Sydney) This blog is based on the author’s book published by...

Leviathan’s shadow: imperial legacy of state capacity and regional development in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

26 Jul, 2022

by Magnus Neubert (IAMO Halle and Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022...

Sterling’s final farewell: the end of an international currency

22 Jul, 2022

by Alan de Bromhead (Queen’s University Belfast), David Jordan (Queen’s University Belfast), Francis Kennedy (Queen’s University Belfast), and Jack...

Girl power in a man’s world? Gender and work in sixteenth-century Sweden

20 Jul, 2022

by Jacob Molinder (Uppsala University and Lund University) and Christopher Pihl (Uppsala University) This blog post is based upon...

The transmission and impact of sentiment shocks

15 Jul, 2022

by Ali Kabiri (University of Buckingham and Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics) and Harold James (Princeton University) ...

Power and identity in the Qing Empire: a study of the political and economic life of the Elites through Confiscation Inventories 1700-1912

13 Jul, 2022

by Yitong Qiu (London School of Economics) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic...