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