Economic History Seminars 2022-23

29 September 

• David de la Croix (University of Louvain)
• Winners and Losers from the Protestant Reformation: An Analysis of the Network of European Universities

06 October - LSE Public Lecture

• Play it Again Clem? Lessons from the 1940s for Post-COVID Britain
• Professor Nick Crafts
• Find information on the lecture and how to book here: Nick Crafts Public Lecture

13 October 

• Youssef Cassis (European University Institute)
• Remembering and forgetting financial crises

20 October 

• Lydia Assouad (LSE International Development)
• Charismatic Leader and Nation-Building

27 October 

• Ling Fan Li (National Tsing Hua University)

• The trade in sovereign debt and investors' social network in late seventeenth century England

3 November

• No seminar - Reading Week

10 November 

• Rinchan Ali MIrza (University of Kent)
• Frontier Governmentality

17 November 

• Michael Joffe (Imperial)
• The birth of the modern economy: cost-and-price competition and the modern firm

24 November 

• No seminar

01 December 

• Noel Johnson (George Mason University)
• The Impact of the Black Death on the Adoption of the Printing Press

08 December 

• James Fenske, University of Warwick
• No Taxation Without Representation: Evidence from Colonial India.

Lent 2023

19 January

• Sabine Schneider (LSE)
• International Finance, Bilateral Cooperation and the World Silver Crisis, 1871-1892

26 January

• Karol J. Borowiecki (University of Southern Denmark)
• What Makes a Great Composer? An Economist’s Answer based on a Millennium of Data

2 February

• David Chambers (Judge Business School, Cambridge)
• Long-run asset returns

9  February

• Guillaume Blanc (Manchester)
• The Cultural Origins of the Demographic Transition in France

16 February

• Thilo Huning (York)
• Identity, Instability, and Investors - An Empirical Investigation of the Home Bias

23 February

No Seminar - Reading Week

2  March

• Alex Field (Santa Clara University)
• The Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Productivity Between 1941 and 1948

9 March

• Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University)

• Capital Flows, Multinationals and Investor Protection in the First Era of Globalization (1850-1914)

16 March

• Marc Goni (Bergen)
• Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline

23  March

• Felipe Gonzalez (Queen Mary University of London)
• Mass policy in times of crisis: Evidence from Salvador Allende's milk program

30 March - Epstein Lecture (online only)

• Mara P. Squicciarini (Bocconi)
• A Complex Relationship: religiosity and science in a historical perspective