📢 New publication alert! @PaulSharpEcHist, Nina Boberg-Fazlic, @JeanetBentzen, Christian Volmar Skovsgaard, and @ChristianVedel have published a new article, “Holy cows and spilled milk: The impact of religious missions on firm-level productivity” 🐮❗️

🚨Only 10 days left to sign-up to our summer school in Odense on historical economics. Highlights: Keynote lectures by Christopher Meissner on the global economy in the past. Further expect courses on project design, ML methods for data processing, and the recent DiD literature

📘 New release coming soon! "Et land, der kom fri – En økonomisk historie om Danmark" by Paul Sharp & Markus Lampe will soon be published by @univpressdk. An accessible and insightful journey through Denmark’s economic history. Get yourself a copy: 🔗

📢 Coming soon! @PaulSharpEcHist, alongside coauthors Gunnar Persson and Markus Lampe, will soon publish their book: "An Economic History of Europe" with @CambridgeUP. Get yourself a copy: 🔗

🚨 PhD course @SDUeconhist this August! "Historical Perspectives on Current Econ Issues: Big Data & Applications" 📅 Aug 11–22 | Odense 👨‍🏫 Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) Apply by July 1 #econtwitter

🎶 What makes a great musician? @Arts_Econ took the stage at Science & Beers in Odense to explore 1,000 years of musical greatness through the lens of economic history. Cheers🍺 Details:

🎙️ @Arts_Econ joined P1 K-Live to talk creativity, culture, and the unstoppable rise of the "meta express." Catch the full interview here:

Did you eat butter this Easter? Was it Lurpak? 🧈 New publication in Business History. It naturally leads to a little reflection I would like to share with you. And it also leads to a small corner of economic history that needs reinterpretation🧵

📢 New publication alert! @PaulSharpEcHist, @ChristianVedel, @xenia18ts, and @eoinmclaughlin have published a new article: "Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War"🇮🇪🇩🇰🐮

🚨📢 @GregoryClarkUCD in the media! 🚨📢 The “golddigger” myth gets a reality check! 💰📉 HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in Weekendavisen on social mobility and economic history. 👉 Read the article here: https://t.co/rywj9dkFU8 #EconHist #SocialMobility

My own department @SDUeconhist has also made historical tariffs and their impact the topic of this year’s summer school -> see here for more:

#SophieYiwenLi @ChristianVedel @PaulSharpEcHist #TorbenJohansen @EconMattCurtis @SarahWashbrook @GregoryClarkUCD @JuliusKoschnick are attending the @EcHistSoc conference at the University of Strathclyde on April April 4-6.🇬🇧 #EHS2025

✨ Exciting News! Big congratulations to HEDG Professor @PaulSharpEcHist and #MarkusLampe from @WU_econhist on their new paper, "Of the bovine ilk: quantifying the welfare of dairy cattle in history, 1750–1900"🐮🇩🇰 Read it here: https://t.co/aOcyWEyujZ #EconHist #SDU

I’m happy to announce that my JMP🚨🚨Teacher-directed change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution” is now out as a working paper. Finalising the draft has been a lot of work. So, very happy to share this! For lots of history, new micro-data&natural experiments, read on

Big congratulations to HEDG PhD student @CAANielsen on being awarded an EHA Early-Stage Dissertation Grant for his project on persistence of Danish elites.👏🎉

EHES has an insightful new working paper by @JuliusKoschnick 👏 The paper is "Teacher-directed scientific change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution"🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👨‍🎓🧑‍🏫 👉Read all EHES working papers here:

🚨 PhD Opportunities at HEDG! 🚨 We’re excited to announce two fully funded PhD positions in Economics at the University of Southern Denmark! If you’re interested in cutting-edge research in applied economics, don’t miss these opportunities:

📢We're Hiring!📢 I'm looking for a PhD student to join me @SDUeconhist to work on research in health care, education and medical innovation in the US 👉Fully funded by @Carlsbergfondet 👉Apply by 7 April Join our exciting research environment—apply now!

🚨📢 Gregory Clark in the media! 🚨📢 New research challenges the "marrying up" myth! 💍👰 HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in The Times. 👉 Read the article here: https://t.co/3wAuFQeCgb #EconHist

🚨🚨🚨PhD summer school at the University of Southern Denmark 🚨🚨🚨What can we learn about tariffs and trade from history? Chris Meisner, our keynote speaker, is one of the most renowned experts on historical trade and policy. + Learn ML + NLP tools. Join us 11-22 August 2025!