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 (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…
Working papers
Paper No. 244:
Income Share of the Top 10%, the Middle 50% and the Bottom 40% in Latin America: 1920-2011
by Pablo Astorga, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
November 2023.
Paper No. 243:
Wealth, inequality, and sex: the changes in female and male wealth and their consequences for the governance of the Russian Empire from 1700s to 1850s
by Elena Korchmina, University of Southern Denmark
November 2023.
Paper No. 242:
Not the Best Fillers in of Forms? The Danish and Norwegian Graduate Biographies and “Upper Tail Knowledge”
by Nicholas Martin Ford, Lund University, Kristin Ranestad, University of Oslo,…
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