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Graduate Economic History Seminars 2024-25

Autumn Term 2024

Time: Wednesdays 1-2pm
Venue: CBG 2.06

2 October

  • Yangyang Liu (LSE)
  • The Holy Banks: Usury Lending by Chinese Buddhist Temples 

9 October

  • Joseph Enguehard (ENS de Lyon)
  • The political costs of taxation 

16 October

  • Guohui Jiang (University of Zurich)
  • No Fairness, No Cooperation: Draft Dodging by the Rich and Voluntary Enlistment in World War II

23 October 

  • Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat
  • Value Investing in the Art Market: The Collection of the London National Gallery, 1824-1994 

30 October 

  • Mariya Sakharova (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
  • Collusion, Elites and Foreign Entities

13 November

  • Kexin Feng (Caltech)
  • Trade, Industrialization, and Regional Disparities during China's Warlord Era

20 November

  • Benjamin Tremblay-Auger (Stanford)
  • Institutions and Rapid Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Canada 

27 November 

  • Matias Cabello (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
  • Divided into progress! How Europe’s political and religious fragmentation spurred creativity: 1100—1900 

4 December

  • Rami Zalfou (Lund University)
  • The Historical State and Economic Development: Evidence from Ottoman Syria’s Nomadic Frontier 

11 December

  • Greg Salter (LSE)
  • The application of risk concepts to the medieval economy