mail_outlineinfo@ehesconference.org
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About EHES
  • Become a member
  • EREH
  • Working papers
  • Congresses
  • History
  • Figuerola Prize
  • Luzzatto Prize
  • FRESH
  • WEAST
  • Contact

About the European Historical Economics Society

The European Historical Economics Society was founded in 1991 to promote European research and training in economic history. The Society is registered with the Charity Commissioners of England and Wales and its aims are stated as: “The advancement of education in European economic history through the study of European economics and economic history, particularly through the comparison and analysis of European economies”.

Read more >>

Blog: Positive Check

  • Historical political economy and long-run development – Cologne FRESH meeting May 2023November 28, 2022
  • YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar – Winter 2023November 9, 2022
  • Smooth Sailing: Market Integration, Agglomeration, and Productivity Growth in Interwar BrazilOctober 13, 2022
  • Gender and the Long-Run Development Process: A Survey of the LiteratureOctober 13, 2022
  • Trade globalization and social spending in Spain, 1850-2000October 13, 2022
  • The need for a Materfamilias: How important was having a working mother during childhood regarding income mobility?October 13, 2022

See all blog entries >>

Tweets by The_EHES

EREH logo
The Society publishes the European Review of Economic History since 1996. It is currently published four times a year and has an impact factor (2021) of 1.706.

The EREH is a major outlet for research in economic history. Articles cover the whole range of economic history — papers on European, non-European, comparative and world economic history are all welcome. Contributions shed new light on existing debates, raise new or previously neglected topics, and provide fresh perspectives from comparative research. The Review includes…

See more >>

Working papers

Paper No. 236:
Economic Freedom in Retrospect

by Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
June 2023.

Paper No. 235:
Subjective Well-being in Spain’s Decline

by Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
May 2023.

Paper No. 234:
Exploring the Drivers of Spain’s Nutritional Transition: From Meat Shortages to Excess(1958-1990)

by Pablo Delgado, University of Zaragoza
April 2023.

Paper No. 233:
Risk Management in Traditional Agriculture: Intercropping in Italian Wine Production

by Giovanni Federico, New York University Abu Dhabi and CEPR Pablo Martinelli Lasheras, University Carlos III…

See all papers >>

EHES Conference 2023

On behalf of the European Historical Economics Society and the local Organizing Committee (Wilfried Kisling and Andreas Resch) I am delighted to invite you to submit a paper or session and to participate in the fifteenth EHES Conference at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Friday – Saturday, 1 – 2 September 2023. We hope that many of you will be able to present and discuss the broad range of topics that we study in economic history.

For further information please see ehesconference.org

Markus Lampe

A History of the European Historical Economics Society: The Formative Years 1991-2001

During most of its early history the organization had a rather informal structure and documents tracing organizational matters are rare, dispersed or lost. Only recently did it get a written constitution, since it was obliged to have one under English law as a registered charity. A considerable proportion of the important decisions have been taken at coffee breaks during conferences, in airport lounges, and before, during and after (usually) good dinners. (From a culinary point of view this is by far the best organization I have been involved in.) However, notes on napkins are easily lost or difficult to read and interpret.

Read more >>
  • - Home
  • - Blog
  • - About EHES
  • - Become a member
  • - EREH
  • - Working papers
  • - Congresses
  • - History
  • - Figuerola Prize
  • - Luzzatto Prize
  • - FRESH
  • - WEAST
  • - Contact
European Historical Economics Society
https://ehes.org
The Society has been registered since 1995 with the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales © 2023 EHES | website: rowmack.nl