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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

  • 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

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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 (2023) of 1.4/1.6  5-year.

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. 239:
The Unequal Spirit of the Protestant Reformation: Particularism and Wealth Distribution in Early Modern Germany

by Felix S.F. Schaff, European University Institute
August 2023.

Paper No. 238:
The persistence of social inequality in adult mortality in rural Spain, death cohorts 1546-2010

by Francisco J. Marco-Garcia, Universidad de Zaragoza and Víctor A. Luque de Haro, University of Almería
August 2023.

Paper No. 237:
Capital, Productivity, and Human Welfare since 1870

by Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán, Wageningen University
August 2023.

Paper No. 236:
Economic Freedom in Retrospect

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

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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.

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