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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”.

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Blog: Positive Check

  • Gino Luzzatto Prize 2019-21June 22, 2022
  • “Wealth invested in beauty”: reinterpreting Renaissance Florence and the Little Divergence from GDP estimates of 1427 TuscanyApril 11, 2022
  • The Panopticon of Germany’s Foreign Trade. New Facts on the First Globalization, 1880-1913.February 24, 2022
  • The paradox of ‘Malthusian urbanization’: Urbanization without growth in the Republic of Genoa, 1300 to 1800February 9, 2022
  • EHES conference: Call for papersDecember 9, 2021
  • Death, sex and fertility: Female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750-1950November 11, 2021

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Tweets by The_EHES

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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…

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Working papers

Paper No. 226:
Harmonious Relations: Quality transmission among composers in the very long run

by Karol Jan Borowiecki, Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark; Nicholas Ford, Department of Economic History, Lund University; Maria Marchenko, Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
May 2022.

Paper No. 225:
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities

by Felix Schaff, London School of Economics.
April 2022.

Paper No. 224:
Health, Income, and the Preston Curve: A Long View

by Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
March…

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Conference 2022

On behalf of the European Historical Economics Society and the local Organizing Committee (Jutta Bolt, Giampaolo Lecce, and Mikolaj Malinowski) I am delighted to invite you to participate in the fourteenth EHES Conference at the University of Groningen, Friday – Saturday, 17 – 18 June 2022. We hope that many of you will be able to present and discuss the broad range of topics that we study in economic history.

professor Herman de Jong

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.

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