Political economy has recently been described as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behavior and institutions. Using history as a laboratory to contribute to political-economic theory and empirics has proven immensely valuable. This encompasses the use of historical data to study institutions and human behavior in the historical context but also […]

The YSI is putting out a CfP for the winter 2023 series. See their call on their website here, or read it below:   We are launching the sixth edition of the YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar this Winter. As in previous editions, we provide a platform for young researchers to present their ongoing work and […]

By Marc Badia-Miró (Universitat de Barcelona), Anna Carreras-Marín (Universitat de Barcelona) and Michael Huberman (Université de Montréal). Read the full article here The relationship between international exposure and the spatial location of economic activity has proven to be vexing problem for historians and economists. Rosés and Wolf (2019), for instance, observed that the great wave […]

  Youssouf Merouani Department of Economic History Lund University Email: youssouf.merouani@ekh.lu.se Faustine Perrin Department of Economic History Lund University Email: faustine.perrin@ekh.lu.se Read the full paper here Why do certain countries display high gender equalities while others display low gender equalities? To what extent did women contribute to fostering economic development? Among the first economic historians […]

By Sergio Espuelas, Universitat de Barcelona (sergio.espuelas@ub.edu) Read the full paper here What is the impact of globalization on the Welfare State? This issue is present in current political debates in many countries around the world. Not surprisingly, it has received a growing attention in academia. However, there is no consensus yet among scholars on […]

In the article “Materfamilias: The association of mother’s work on children’s absolute income mobility, Southern Sweden (1947-2015)”, Gabriel Brea-Martinez studies the association of having a gainfully working and economically independent mother with upward absolute income mobility. The article focuses on children born between the 1940s-1980s in Southern Sweden, covered by the Scanian Economic Demographic Database […]

By Marina Chuchko, Department of Economic and Social History, The University of Vienna read the full article here  and more about Marina’s research here In my new article, I study the accuracy of Russian foreign trade statistics and reconstruct the trade series for the period of Russia’s rapid industrialization between 1880 and 1913. The importance […]

by Vinzent Ostermeyer, Lund University, Department of Economic History. Read more about Vinzent’s reserach here. Read the full paper (open access) here. A common periodization of economic development is that first labor shifts out of agriculture into industry and only then the service sector grows. However, such views disregard that already during the late 19th century […]

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Emanuele Felice The full paper can be read here How wealthy, and how unequal, was pre-industrial Europe? And how rich was the South of Europe compared to the North Sea area: did the Little Divergence already start in the late Medieval Period? And if this was the case, what are the […]