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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...
Were Gerschenkron and Palairet right? Industrialization in a small open peasant grain economy: the case of Bulgaria, 1870-1910
12 Jul, 2022
by Martin Ivanov (University of Sofia) and Michael Kopsidis (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies / IAMO)...
When nation building goes south: draft evasion, government repression, and the origins of the Sicilian mafia
24 Jun, 2022
by Gianni Marciante (University of Warwick) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
The occupational structure of the Yangtze Valley in the twentieth century
23 Jun, 2022
by Ying Dai (University of Cambridge) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
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The geography of old age in late-Victorian England and Wales: a postcode lottery?
17 Jun, 2022
by Tom Heritage (University of Cambridge) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
Why has government in Britain become so corrupt?
16 Jun, 2022
by Avner Offer (All Souls College, University of Oxford) This blog post is based on the author’s recently published...
Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions
15 Jun, 2022
by Èric Gómez-i-Aznar (University of Barcelona) This blog post is based upon the author’s article forthcoming in the Economic...
The international lender of last resort, 1850–2006
9 Jun, 2022
by Norbert Gaillard (NG Consulting) and Juan Flores Zendejas (University of Geneva) This blog post is based on the...
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