• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays 5:00pm - 6:45pm; Michaelmas Term, Weeks 1-8
• Organising department: Department of Economics

Tuesday 10 October 2017

• 17:00 - What worked and who cared? Tracing the life-courses of 500 delinquents from 1850
  Pamela Cox (University of Essex)

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 17:00 - The history of the economic history of slavery
  Gavin Wright (Stanford University)

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 17:00 - Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies and a Scottish country house
  Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh)

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 17:00 - Sovereignty in the Age of Empire: Liberia in the world economy, 1822-1980
  Leigh Gardener (LSE)

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 17:00 - Following the poppy trail: Chinese migration and the rise of the Mexican drug trade
  Tomas Murphy (Bocconi University)

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 17:00 - Rolling over but not playing dead: Sovereign debt restructuring 1982-85
  Catherine Schenk (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 17:00 - The occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1911
  Sebastian Keibek (University of Cambridge), Leigh Shaw-Taylor (University of Cambridge), Xuesheng You (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 17:00 - The aftertaste of Victorian times: What dental plaque from human burials can tell about Victorian lives
  Greger Larson (University of Oxford), Anita Radini (University of York)

Tuesday 16 January 2018

• 17:00 - Time Horizons and Market Boundaries
  Avner Offer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 17:00 - Is it who you are, where you work, or with who you work that matter for earnings? Gender and peer effects among late nineteenth-century industrial workers
  Joyce Burnette (Wabash College, Indiana)

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 17:00 - Looking for work or looking for workers? Days and hours of work in London construction in the eighteenth century
  Judy Stephenson (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 17:00 - Swords into Bank Shares: Finance, Conflict and Political Reform in Meiji Japan
  Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University)

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 17:00 - Roman economic performance in the long run: what was it and how do we know?
  Willem Jongman (University of Groningen)

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 17:00 - Of Mites and Men (and Sheep): the International Textile Crisis of c.1280-1330 Revisited
  Philip Slavin (University of Kent)

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 17:00 - The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Interwar British Growth: A Narrative Approach
  Natacha Postel-Vinay (London School of Economics (LSE))

Tuesday 6 March 2018

• 17:00 - Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing: A Re-Assessment
  Robert Margo (Boston University)

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 17:00 - Rising Inequality and globalisation
  Registration not required. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.
  Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics/École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 17:00 - The comfortable, the rich, and the super-rich. what really happened to top and high incomes in Britain over the trans-war period?
  Peter Scott & James Walker (Henley Business School)

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 17:00 - The Big Sort: Selective Migration and the Decline of Northern England, 1800-2017
  Neil Cummins (LSE), Greg Clark (UC Davis)

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 17:00 - Going Dutch: Exchange Rates, Capital Mobility and Monetary Policy in the Netherlands during the Interwar Gold Standard
  Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast), Philip Fliers (Utrecht University)

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Chris McKenna & Rowena Archer (Oxford)

Tuesday 29 May 2018

• 17:00 - The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
  Eli Cook (Haifa University)

Tuesday 9 October 2018

• 17:00 - The Subsistence Wage: A Basic Needs Poverty Line Applied to the Past
  Professor Robert C. Allen (New York University Abu Dhabi)

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 17:00 - The Politics of Reproduction and the History of Venereal Disease in the British Empire
  Katherine Paugh (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 17:00 - The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration
  Dan Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 17:00 - Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood
  Amanda Nettlebeck (University of Adelaide and University College Dublin)

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 17:00 - No Capitalism Please, We’re Historians: The Elusive Role of Profit in the History of Economic Life
  Mary O'Sullivan (Université de Genève)

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 17:00 - Censorship, Family Planning, and the British Demographic Transition
  Walker Hanlon (Stern School of Business, NYU)

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 17:00 - Social Entropy and Economic History
  Anne McCants & Dan Seligson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 17:00 - Weber Revisited: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism
  Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt)

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 17:00 - Community Origins of Industrial Entrepreneurship in Pre Independence India
  Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 17:00 - The Political Economy of Foreign Debt Management: Eastern Europe in the Great Depression
  Tobias Strauman (University of Zurich )

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 17:00 - Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.
  Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University)

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 17:00 - Fertility and Child Mortality before the Demographic Transition: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Egypt
  Mohamed Saleh (University of Toulouse)

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 17:00 - Economic Inequality and Social Mobility in Preindustrial Europe
  Guido Alfani (Bocconi University)

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 17:00 - Vocational Training in Large Firms in France during the Pompidou Apogée
  Pierre Sicsic (Paris School of Economics)

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 17:00 - The Mechanism of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: An In-depth Look at Assortment Bargaining
  Anne Ruderman (LSE)

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 17:00 - The Monopoly over Violence in a Late Modernizer: Evidence from Imperial China
  Mark Dincecco (University Of Michigan)

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 17:00 - Fashion and the Rise of Capitalism
  Shinobu Majima (Gakashuin University)

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 17:00 - Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Inter-War Aircraft Industry
  Taylor Jaworski (University of Colorado)

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 17:00 - Housing, Health and Education: women's activism in post-war Scotland
  Valerie Wright (University of Glasgow)

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 17:00 - European Institutions and the Little Divergence 1500-1800
  Nuno Palma (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 4 June 2019

• 17:00 - Atlantic Trade and the Decline of Conflict in Europe: Evidence from 250 years of data
  Laura Panza (University of Melbourne)

Tuesday 11 June 2019

• 17:00 - The Solidarity Principle and the EU's 'Free Movement of Persons': a critical historical analysis
  Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez (University of Groningen)

Monday 14 October 2019

• 17:00 - Four types of corruption
  Avner Offer (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 October 2019

• 17:00 - History and Policy: Incentivizing an Ethical Economics
  Hilary Cooper (Finance Foundation ), Ben Szreter (Behavioural Insights Team), Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge)

Monday 28 October 2019

• 17:00 - The Impact of the Black Death on the English Economy: 1350 to c.1400
  Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)

Monday 4 November 2019

• 17:00 - The Effect of the Second World War on Japanese Children's Growth
  Tim Cole (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health), Eric Schneider (London School of Economics)

Monday 11 November 2019

• 17:00 - Economic History Recorded in Arctic Ice: European Lead and Silver Production from the Early Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
  Joe McConnell (Desert Research Institute, Reno), Andrew Wilson (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 November 2019

• 17:00 - Service, Help and Delegation: Labour Relations in the Past Studied with the Help of the Verb-Oriented Method
  Maria Agren (Uppsala University)

Monday 25 November 2019

• 17:00 - Saving Labour: Automation and its Enemies (CANCELLED)
  Carl Frey (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 17:00 - Financing Nascent Industry: Leverage, Politics, and Performance in Imperial Russia
  Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 17:00 - Republic of Clients: Patronage and Power Concentration in Poland-Lithuania, 1468-1795
  Mikolaj Malinowski (Lund University)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 17:00 - The Economic Origins of Modern Science
  Jeremiah Dittmar (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 17:00 - Slave Productivity in Cotton Picking
  Paul Rhode (University of Michigan)

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 17:00 - In Thrall to Coal: Community and Coal
  Jane Humphries (University of Oxford), Ryah Thomas (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 17:00 - Institutional Economics Beyond the Nation State? Perspectives from the Ancient Imperial World
  Sitta von Reden (University of Freiburg)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 17:00 - Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920
  Ariell Zimran (Vanderbilt University)

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 17:00 - The Standard Errors of Persistence
  Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin)

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 17:00 - A Dog that Did Not Bark: Limited Liability and Enterprise Form in Pre-Industrial Tuscany
  Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 17:00 - The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45: Causes and Consequences
  Ingrid de Zwarte (Department of Rural and Environmental History, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 17:00 - Health Inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa with Jonathan Jayes
  Johan Fourie (Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 17:00 - The Effect of the 1963 Equal Pay Act on the Gender Gap
  Martha Bailey (Department of Economics, UCLA)

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 17:00 - Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technology Adoption during the British Industrial Revolution (with Joachim Voth and Bruno Caprettini)
  Alex Trew (Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow)

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 17:00 - Living Standards and Inequality in Sweden, 1650-1900: Evidence from Probate Inventories
  Erik Bentsson (Department of Economic History, University of Lund, Sweden)

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 17:00 - Felons' chattels and English living standards, 1370-1600
  Chris Briggs (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 17:00 - The Economic Motives of Foot-binding (with Xinyu Fan)
  Lingwei Wu (Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Germany)

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 17:00 - States and Wars: China's Long March towards Unity and its Consequences, 221 BC - 1911AD
  Debin Ma (Hitotsubashi University)

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 17:00 - 40 Acres and a Mule: Black Americans’ Landholding and Economic Mobility after Emancipation
  Marianne Wanamaker (University of Tennessee)

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 17:00 - The Great Convergence: Mass Education and Skill Premiums in Africa and Asia, c. 1870-2010
  Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School)

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 17:00 - If You Do Not Change Your Behaviour: Managing Threats to State Security in Lithuania under Soviet Rule (Joint with Eugenia Nazrullaeva)
  Mark Harrison (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 17:00 - Land Taxes, Tax Evasion, and Fiscal Capacity in the City of London, 1720-1725
  Ann Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder)

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 17:00 - Imported or Home Grown? The 1992-3 EMS Crisis
  Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 17:00 - Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
  Michela Giorcelli (UCLA)

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 17:00 - The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws
  Stephan Heblich (University of Toronto)

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 17:00 - The Value of Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
  Allison Shertzer (with Michael Coury and Matthew Turner) (University of Pittsburgh)

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 17:00 - Was Domar Right? Serfdom and Factor Endowments in Bohemia
  Sheilagh Ogilvie (with Alexander Klein and Jeremy Edwards) (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 17:00 - War, Debt and Constitution: Italy´s Path to Nation-Building and Central Banking in the Nineteenth Century
  Maria Stella Chiaruttini (University of Vienna)

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 17:00 - How the Bank of England became a modern central bank
  Harold James (Princeton University)

Tuesday 1 June 2021

• 17:00 - The rise and fall of George Frederick Augustus I: Atlantic Trade and Finance from the Miskitu Shore 1800-1824
  Damian Clavel (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 June 2021

• 17:00 - Shadow central banking and international finance in Brazil, 1973-1982
  Sebastian Alvarez (University of Zurich)

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 17:00 - The Ends of 30 Big Depressions
  Martin Ellison (with San Seok Lee and Kevin O'Rourke) (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 17:00 - Paul Seabright: Narrative and Statistical Explanations in History and the Social Sciences
  Paul Seabright (University of Toulouse & All Souls College Oxford)

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 17:00 - Amanda Gregg: Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia
  Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 17:00 - Emily Kadens: Fraud and the Problem of Trust in Early Modern English Commerce
  Emily Kadens (Northwestern University)

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 17:00 - Cihan Artunç: Legal Origins of Corporate Governance: Choice of Law in Egypt, 1887–1913
  Cihan Artunç (Middlebury College)

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 17:00 - Ulrich Pfister: The Rise of a Continental Economy: a Malthusian Analysis of German Real Wages, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
  Ulrich Pfister (University of Münster)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 17:00 - Emily Sellars: Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Evidence from Colonial Mexico (with Francisco Garfias, UCSD)
  Emily Sellars (Yale University)

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 17:00 - Tim Guinnane: We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years
  Tim Guinnane (Yale University)

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 17:00 - Veronica Santarosa (with Benjamin Chabot): Contracts without Courts: The Value of Contractual Protection in an Era of Absolute Sovereign Immunity
  Veronica Santarosa (University of Michigan)

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 17:00 - Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa
  Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 17:00 - Wealth accumulation and Institutional Capture: the Rise of the Medici and the Fall of the Florentine Republic
  Mattia Fochesato (Bocconi University)

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 17:00 - The economic consequences of the Opium War
  Carol Shiue (University of Colorado-Boulder)

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 17:00 - Race and the New Deal
  Price Fishback (University of Arizona)

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 17:00 - Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea
  Nathan Lane (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 17:00 - Wealth of two nations: The US racial wealth gap from 1860-2020
  Ellora Derenoncourt (Princeton University)

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 17:00 - Trade Imbalances or Specie Arbitrage? Anglo-Asian Bullion Flows in the Early Modern Period, 1664-1811
  Pilar Nogues-Marco (University of Geneva)

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 17:00 - Missing Women in Colonial India
  Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 17:00 - The long shadow of 1931: Legacies of financial regulation in transnational perspective
  Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt University)

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 17:00 - German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892
  Sabine Schneider (New College, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 17:00 - The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China (joint with Boxiao Zhang)
  Melanie Xue (London School of Economics)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 17:00 - The idea of Liberalism, not exploitation or investment or institutions or the Enlightenment caused the Great Enrichment
  Deirdre McCloskey (University of Chicago at Illinois)

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 17:00 - ‘Involution’ or Seasonality: a new perspective on the 19-20th century Chinese agricultural development
  Debin Ma (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 17:00 - What explains business cessation? A century of corporate bankruptcies and liquidations in the Netherlands
  Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast)

Tuesday 14 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Industrial Organization of International Trade Finance during the First Globalization (Co-authored with Olivier Accominotti and Delio Lucena)
  Stefano Ugolini (University of Toulouse Institute of Political Studies and LEREPS)

Thursday 22 September 2022

• 17:00 - Dodging Space Junk: The Origins of French Industrialization
  Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin)

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 17:00 - Fiscal Innovation and the Origins of Paper Money in Song China
  Richard von Glahn (UCLA)

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 17:00 - German Silver Diplomacy and the Emergence of the Classical Gold Standard, 1871-1892
  Sabine Schneider (University of Oxford/LSE)

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 17:00 - African Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen)

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 17:00 - Rural Intra-Elite Conflict, Colonization, and Demands for Power-Sharing: Evidence from Khedival Egypt
  Mohamed Saleh (LSE)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 17:00 - Women’s paid labour in the preindustrial economy: the tasks, wages and earnings of female day labourers in rural England, c.1480-1680
  Jane Whittle (University of Exeter)

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 17:00 - Justices
  Nuno Palma (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 17:00 - "The Standard Errors of Persistence" by Morgan Kelly and Timothy Conley
  Morgan Kelly (University college Dublin)

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 17:00 - Where were the missing girls: Re-estimating daughters' survival in Chinese clans, 1350-1900
  Sijie Hu (Remin University)

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 17:00 - British-French technology transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791-1844): evidence from patent data
  Alessandro Nuvolari (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 17:00 - Organizations not Atoms: Rules, Organizations, and Long Term Development
  John Wallis (University of Maryland)

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 17:00 - African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism
  Associate Professor Leigh Gardner (LSE)

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 17:00 - Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Science During the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
  Jared Rubin (Chapman University)

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 17:00 - Monopsony in early modern labour markets and the industrious revolution
  Judy Stephenson (UCL)

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 17:00 - The Columbian Exchange and Conflict in Asia
  James Fenske (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 17:00 - The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War
  Alexander Field (Santa Clara University)

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 17:00 - The economic origins of ascetic values: evidence from Medieval Europe
  Please note this seminar is now online due to travel disruption.
  Elise Huillery (Paris Dauphine)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 17:00 - An Empire on the Cheap: The Economic and Political History of French Colonization
  Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics)

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 17:00 - The Irish in England (with Cormac Ó Gráda)
  Neil Cummins (LSE)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 17:00 - The Expansion of Colonial Healthcare in Twentieth-Century British Africa
  Jeanne Cilliers (Lund University, Sweden)

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 17:00 - The Impact of Public Transportation and Commuting on Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32 (with Jonathan Wadsworth)
  Andrew Seltzer (Royal Holloway)

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 17:00 - Epidemics, inequality and poverty: from the Black Death to the Spanish Flu
  https://torch.ox.ac.uk/event/epidemics-inequality-and-poverty-from-the-black-death-to-the-spanish-flu
  Guido Alfani (Bocconi University)

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 17:00 - War as a Catalyst for Financial Innovation and Speculation in the Early Modern Period: Examples from Marseille’s Marine Insurance Market, 1754-1783
  Mallory Hope (Harvard)

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 17:00 - Dissecting the sinews of power: International trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823
  Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 17:00 - Economic Shocks and Religious Conflict in Medieval India
  Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 17:00 - Exploring Women's Work in Early Modern Rural Italy: insights from the Republic of Venice
  Andrea Caracausi (Padua)

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 17:00 - ‘Contours of Death’ Revisited: the Geography of Health and Mortality in Early Modern England
  Romola Davenport (Cambridge)

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 17:00 - Patent Litigation in the Nineteenth-Century German Empire: An Empirical Analysis of Nullity Proceedings
  Jochen Streb (University of Mannheim)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 17:00 - Does Cultural Assimilation Matter? [joint work with J. S. Bentzen, P. Sharp, C. V. Skovsgaard, and C. Vedel]
  Nina Boberg-Fazlic (TU Dortmund)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Centuries of the Elderly: Old Age, Pensions, and Retirement in Premodern Europe (c. 1000-1800)
  Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund)

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 17:00 - Property Rights and Innovation Dynamism: The Role of Women Inventors
  Ruveyda Nur Gozen (LSE)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 17:00 - Factory Location: Resistance to Technology Adoption and Local Institutions
  Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex)

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 17:00 - Devaluation, Exports, and Recovery from the Great Depression
  Jason Lennard (LSE)

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 17:00 - Kings as Judges: Justice in Institutional Development and Some Insights from (and for) Economic History
  Deborah Boucoyannis (George Washington University)

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 17:00 - Wealth, inequality and sex: the changes in female and male wealth and their consequences for the governance of the Russian Empire from the 1700s to the 1850s
  Elena Korchmina (University of Bologna)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 17:00 - Spreading from below. The diffusion and scaling of institutions for collective action in early modern Europe.
  Tine De Moor (Erasmus University)

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 17:00 - Africa’s Mineral Transition: Missed Opportunity or Blessing in Disguise?
  Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University)

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 17:00 - Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia
  Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 17:00 - Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates, 1850-1920
  Katherine Eriksson (University of California, Davis)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 17:00 - Is this Time Different? Financial Follies Across Centuries (with Jeremy Fouliard and Vania Stavrakeva)
  Hélène Rey (London Business School)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 17:00 - Imperial Bonding: The Growth, Demise, and Reformulation of Financial Networks in the Interwar Atlantic
  Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow)

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Safety Net: Central Bank Balance Sheets and Financial Crisis, 1587-2020 (with Martin Kornejew, Paul Schmelzing, Moritz Schularick)
  Niall Ferguson (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets (with Asaf Bernstein, Carola Frydman)
  Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 17:00 - Recombinant Novelty in Early-Modern English Caselaw (with Peter Grajzl)
  Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 17:00 - How Many Jobs? Division of Labour in Early Modern England and Wales (with David Chilosi, Giampaolo Lecce)
  Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 17:00 - Commodity Futures Prices and U.S. Inflation Expectations, 1877-2024
  William Quinn (Queen’s University Belfast)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 17:00 - Priests and Postmen: Historical Origins of National Identity
  Claudia Rei (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 17:00 - Rehabilitating Exchange Alley: why it was possible to trust eighteenth-century stock-brokers
  Anne Murphy (University of Portsmouth)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Silver Empire
  Oliver Volckart (London School of Economics)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Power of Connections: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890-1950
  Cihan Artunç (Middlebury College)

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 17:00 - Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Long-Run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms
  Chiaki Moriguchi (Hitotsubashi University)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 17:00 - Modern Library Holdings and Historic City Growth
  Dr Eric Chaney (Oxford)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 17:00 - So That They Might Tax Themselves: Colonial Taxation, Representation and Local Government in British West Africa
  Laura Channing (Durham University)

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 17:00 - Industrialization in the Habsburg Empire: A Spatial Analysis’
  Tamas Vonyo (Bocconi University)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - Councils and Indirect Rule in British Africa
  Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy (with Sheilagh Ogilvie)
  Felix Schaff (European University Institute)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 17:00 - Suez
  David Jacks (National University of Singapore)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 17:00 - Alienated Intellectuals? Exploring the Political Consequences of the Educational Revolution in Early Modern England
  Sandra de Pleijt (Wageningen University)

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 17:00 - TBC
  Professor Joachim Voth (UBS Professor of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the University of Zurich)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - GDP per capita and Regional Differences in the Ottoman Empire, 1570-1914
  Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 17:00 - Traumatic Financial Experiences and Persistent Changes in Financial Behavior: Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank
  Vellore Arthi (UC Irvine)