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Economic History Seminars 2024-25

Autumn Term 2024

Autumn Term seminars are in PAR.2.03 (Parish Hall), 4-5.30pm.

 

3 October  

  • Sean Kenny (Lund)
  • Irish Regional GDP since Independence” (co-authored with Alan de Bromhead)

10 October  

  • Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Caltech)
  • A Capital’s Capital: Wealth and Inequality in Paris 1807-2023

17 October

  • Björn Brey (Norwegian School of Economics)
  • Supporting independence: Political connections and import substitution in India

24 October

  • Chris Briggs (Cambridge)
  • Royal justice and the economy in medieval England: evidence from Derbyshire

31 October

  • Cecilia García Peñalosa (LSE)
  • Technological change and women’s political rights: Evidence from Switzerland

14 November

  • Maanik Nath (Utrecht)
  • Drivers of Agricultural Growth in British India

21 November

  • Jane Whittle (Exeter)
  • What caused the gender wage gap in English agriculture, c.1300-1700?

28 November

  • Vincent Delabastita (Radboud)
  • Technological progress in slack labor markets: Evidence from 19th-century Belgium

5 December 

  • Cihan Artunç (Middlebury)
  • Dynamics of firm entry, exit, and transitions between legal forms of organization

12 December 

  • Karolina Hutkovà (Oxford)
  • The Expansion of British Trade and the Fiscal State, from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars