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 19^th-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