Call for papers: “Frontiers of Comparative Development in Historical Perspective” Conference to be held at the University of Manchester, Nov 13-14. Keynote speaker: Barry Eichengreen (UC-Berkeley) Deadline to send us a proposal: September 22, 2025 Application link & details👇

Matt Curtis (SDU) @EconMattCurtis is now presenting the paper “Academic Human Capital in European Countries and Regions, 1200-1793” 👇🏼

https://t.co/Vo2YVvZIom

It will be a huge honour to deliver the 2026 #HajnalLecture @ArthurLewisLab at the University of Manchester. It will also be something of a homecoming: Manchester was not only the place I grew up, it shaped my love of Economic History. #Manchester #EconHist

The 2026 Hajnal Lecture will be given by @vnbateman on May 14, 2026. Everyone is welcome👇

Mauro Rota @Mau_Rota (Sapienza) is now presenting the paper “Electricity and regional development in Italy” (joint with M. Postigliola and J. Weisdorf)👇🏼

In the first Lewis Lab seminar of the current academic year, Yannick Dupraz (CNRS) is now presenting the paper: “A Century of Language Barriers to Migration in India (with Latika Chaudhary and James Fenske)” 👇🏼

Full program & details here: https://t.co/5k5c6EXPm9

🔊The programs are now available! First day: graduate workshop. Next day, in addition to the keynote by @B_Eichengreen, we'll have presentations by Sabrina Di Addario, @YuzuruKumon, @glambais, @kivanc_karaman, James Fenske, Xizi Luo, Pim de Zwart, @Omer_Moav, & @MengWu_EcoHis!👇

Deadline approaching 👇🏼

ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀᴏꜱꜱ ᴏꜰ ɢᴏʟᴅ: ʙʀᴀᴢɪʟɪᴀɴ ᴛʀᴇᴀꜱᴜʀᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴄʟɪɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴘᴏʀᴛᴜɢᴀʟ, with @dkedrosky 18th-century Brazilian gold caused a resource curse in Portugal, hurting industry & institutions Now out in the 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆

Glad to see Yuzuru's paper forthcoming Argument: Tokugawa Japan had relatively low land inequality, which made people exceptionally poor, whereas W. Europe was much more unequal which gave it higher living standards. (This may seem paradoxical to some people but it's not really)

Congratulations to @dkedrosky & @nunopgpalma on their "Brazilian gold influx impoverished 18th c Portugal through Dutch Disease & delayed industrialisation via a political-institutional resource curse" paper. But double congratulations to Davis for his first academic publication!

I just passed my viva!! PhDone :) Thanks a lot to my amazing reviewers @gguillaumeblanc @jpfaguet and Akos Valentinyi!! Of course, a big thanks to my supervisor @nunopgpalma So happy!!

Congratulations Dr. Gachet! 🥳

Simon Johnson @baselinescene is now giving The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture at @OfficialUoM: "Technology and Global Inequality in the Age of AI" 👇🏼

Simon Johnson @baselinescene is now giving The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture at @OfficialUoM: "Technology and Global Inequality in the Age of AI" 👇🏼

Who is looking forward to this book? 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚’𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙡: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙙 More news soon...👇

The end of an era! As the current academic year ends, it is time say farewell to the esteemed members of the Lewis Lab leaving us: @jordicaumj will be AP at U. of Barcelona @Nichogachet will be AP at TEC Monterrey @gguillaumeblanc joined later but we forgot to take a new picture!

Denis Cogneau @CogneauDenis (PSE) is now presenting his forthcoming book “Empire on the Cheap. The Political Economy of French Colonialism since 1800” 👇🏼

A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. @OxfordESH @ArthurLewisLab @LeverhulmeTrust #echist