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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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…
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…
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