Financial neoliberalism: British insurance and the revolution in the...
by Thomas Gould (University of Bristol) What has been the relationship between the growth of finance and ‘neoliberalism’ in post-war Britain? My research shows that the drive towards popular...
View ArticleIs committing to a free trade policy enough? Evidence from colonial Africa
by Federico Tadei (Department of Economic History, University of Barcelona) Recent Brexit negotiations have led to intense debate on the type of trade agreements that should be put in place between...
View ArticleSqueezing blood from a stone: eighteenth century debtors’ prisons worked
by Alex Wakelam (University of Cambridge) While it is often assumed that debtors’ prisons were illogical and ineffective, my research demonstrates that they were extremely economically effective for...
View ArticleGlobal trade imbalances in the classical and post-classical world
by Jamus Jerome Lim (ESSEC Business School and Center for Analytical Finance) In 2017, the bilateral trade deficit between China and the United States amounted to $375 billion, a staggering amount...
View ArticleThe spread of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the tradition of European practical...
by Raffaele Danna (University of Cambridge) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 The ten digits we use to represent numbers are everywhere in our modern world. But they reached a widespread diffusion in the...
View ArticleFactor Endowments on the “Frontier”: Algerian Settler Agriculture at the...
by Laura Maravall Buckwalter (University of Tübingen) This research is due to be published in the Economic History Review and is currently available on Early View. It is often claimed that access to...
View ArticleAsia’s ‘little divergence’ in the twentieth century: evidence from PPP-based...
by Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon) and Pierre van der Eng (Australian National University) This blog is part of a larger research paper published in the Economic History Review. In the ‘great...
View ArticleA Policy of Credit Disruption: The Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1900
by Latika Chaudhary (Naval Postgraduate School) and Anand V. Swamy (Williams College) This research is due to be published in the Economic History Review and is currently available on Early View. In...
View ArticleAll quiet before the take-off? Pre-industrial regional inequality in Sweden...
by Anna Missiaia and Kersten Enflo (Lund University) This research is due to be published in the Economic History Review and is currently available on Early View. For a long time, scholars have...
View ArticleIt is only cheating if you get caught – Creative accounting at the Bank of...
by Alain Naef (Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley) This research was presented at the EHS conference in Keele in 2018 and is available as a working paper here. It is also...
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Trade in the Shadow of Power: Japanese Industrial Exports in the Interwar years
By Alejandro Ayuso Díaz and Antonio Tena Junguito (Carlos III University of Madrid) The history of international trade provides numerous examples of trade in the ‘shadow of power’ (Findlay and O´Rourke...
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Turkey’s Experience with Economic Development since 1820
by Sevket Pamuk, University of Bogazici (Bosphorus) This research is part of a broader article published in the Economic History Review. A podcast of Sevket’s Tawney lecture can be found here. New...
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Tawney Lecture 2019: Slavery and Anglo-American Capitalism Revisited
by Gavin Wright (Stanford University) This research was presented as the Tawney Lecture at the EHS Annual Conference in 2019. It will also appear in the Economic History Review later this year....
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Early View: Slavery and Anglo-American capitalism revisited
by Gavin Wright (Stanford University) The full paper for this research has now been published on The Economic History Review and is available on early view here Slaves cutting sugar cane, taken from...
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Book Review –‘Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton’
review by Duncan Needham (University of Cambridge) book edited by Julian Hoppit, Duncan Needham & Adrian Leonard ‘Money and Markets: Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton’ is published by Boydell and...
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The Long View on Epidemics, Disease and Public Health: Research from Economic...
This piece is the result of a collaboration between the Economic History Review, the Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History and the European Review of Economic History. More...
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The Long View on Epidemics, Disease and Public Health: Research from Economic...
by Vincent Geloso (King’s University College at Western University Canada), discussing Werner Troesken’s ‘The Pox of Liberty’ At the Gates, 1885. Available at NIH. Shutdowns, quarantines, lockdowns...
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Business bankruptcies: learning from historical failures
by Philip Fliers (Queen’s University Belfast), Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast), and Abe de Jong (Monash University). This blog is part of our EHS 2020 Annual Conference Blog Series. The...
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The Great Depression as a saving glut
by Victor Degorce (EHESS & European Business School) & Eric Monnet (EHESS, Paris School of economics & CEPR). This blog is part of our EHS 2020 Annual Conference Blog Series. Crowd at New...
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Fascistville: Mussolini’s new towns and the persistence of neo-fascism
by Mario F. Carillo (CSEF and University of Naples Federico II) This blog is part of our EHS 2020 Annual Conference Blog Series. March on Rome, 1922. Available at Wikimedia Commons. Differences in...
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