How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history? New book by @mark4harrison.bsky.social and Stephen Broadberry looks across three centuries of global history for clues to how economic sanctions and warfare worked and why their effects often came as a surprise. buff.ly/2vOcWIl

He visto cómo las vacas sagradas de la economía en mi juventud fueron pasando de moda. Las de hoy también pasarán. En este video hablo sobre ese ciclo: las modas intelectuales en la disciplina y cómo moldean lo que estudiamos y discutimos. youtu.be/8hdvEp63VP0

📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT

We got a VoxDev column out! ==> Meng Yu Ngov, Pierre-Louis Vézina, Trang Thu Tran & Gaurav Nayyar show that Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Thank you for this great review @raulaldaz.bsky.social ! If after reading this great review anyone is interested in the book (for yourselves or your libraries) feel free to use this discount voucher valid until Friday

Latin American Policy just published the review that I made of @llschenoni.bsky.social's outstanding book Brinking War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth‐Century Latin America. Here is a thread of the review. The book tests the war-state capacity link in the region. (1/7)

Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians

IR, Comparative, Methodology.

If we set aside ad-hoc explanations, two forces stand out in shaping global development: colonial institutions and war—even if the former fails to explain Europe itself. Latin America has long tilted the debate away from the latter, but what if the real driver was war here as well?👇

How can you summarise your research for a wider audience? I think it's a no-brainer to present your work in a way that's accessible to those outside academia. Having edited over 500 @voxdev.bsky.social articles, I've put what I've learned into this blog: voxdev.org/topic/commun...

Daniel Baquero has organized a neat panel on “Reform and Development from Historical Perspectives” ⏰ 8 am tomorrow (Saturday) 📍 East 3 Projects by Daniel, Steve Monroe, me, Yajie Wang, @charasz.bsky.social + @kkrakows.bsky.social. Discussion by @lisablaydes.bsky.social + @ricarthuguet.bsky.social

New political science grad students, a piece of unsolicited advice: Take the full formal theory sequence; if your program doesn't offer it, go to the econ department (that's what I did). Formal logic is also a great option! Why? You never know what will happen during grad school. 1/8

Pure gold!

Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

Ok, so I finally finished reading this book by @llschenoni.bsky.social. If your are into states and development (in and beyond Latin America), you have to read it! The book is theoretically ambitious and has a clever and brilliant research design. (1/4)

📢 ¡Convocatoria abierta! Dossier: "Estudios de política subnacional comparada en América Latina: el aporte del territorio a la construcción de teoría" 🗓️ Cierre: 16/06/2025 🔗 Info completa: revista.saap.org.ar/index.php/re... #RevistaSAAP #REPSA #CienciaPolítica #DossierAcadémico

Are you doing research in contexts of conflict, insecurity and development? Are you using participatory and creative research methods? Apply now for our one-day workshop on 26 September, where we will discuss the benefits, practical and ethical challenges in using participatory methodologies.

New Broadstreet post by @pavisuri.bsky.social, who continues her series on state capacity. Today's post is on what we can learn about the origins and reversal of bureaucratic capacity in China & why state-building in China confounds scholars of Europe: www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-rise-a...

What does it take to advance this frontier and to more firmly establish HPE as a research field in Europe? open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

🎓 New working paper: "Communism in the Classroom: Long-Run Effects of an Experiment" (with Matti Mitrunen)

We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods❗ The successful candidate will contribute to the Department’s teaching activities through seminar teaching, methods surgeries, and dissertation/capstone supervision. For more info and to apply➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

🚨Call for papers! We will be hosting this great workshop next autumn, organized by @clpennec.bsky.social, @nicolasajz.bsky.social and our own Cevat Aksoy. Submit your best political economy work!

We cannot take democracy for granted. The turn towards more democracy is a huge human achievement. It is more recent than we often realize. Only 9 countries have had an electoral democracy for over 91 years - and even fewer for liberal democracy. Let's take care of these important institutions.

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me. The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

New post on @broadstreetblog.bsky.social by yours truly and co-author José Antonio Espín-Sánchez. Check it out! #econhistory #colonialism #migration www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-making...

What Can an Economist Learn from a Political Scientist? open.substack.com/pub/mejiaj/p...

Los economistas tenemos mucho que aprender de otras ciencias sociales. Hoy escribí sobre una de estas cosas en particular, una que los politólogos entienden muy bien: El valor del conocimiento sustancial Léanlo aquí: forbes.co/2025/04/08/r...

My new books just arrived! And I am eager to dive into them. Expect comments in the next few weeks (or decade, given the amount of commitments that I have for the coming months).

New Broadstreet post by Peng Peng: Narratives of Imperial China as a meritocracy need a corrective. Using data from Qing dynasty she shows exams didn’t just determine who governed—they created a bureaucracy that was culturally & ideologically unified, raising questions about how we study meritocracy

New Broadstreet post! By @larroyoabad.bsky.social and Noel Maurer www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-arm-of...

Resumen en español, aquí: nadaesgratis.es/admin/la-pri...

Lenin's theory of imperialism & capitalist peace theory sound like strange bed-fellows, but @torewig.bsky.social , @sirianned.bsky.social, @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social & I integrate them in this article. Published today in @ejir.bsky.social! On business elites in politics & international conflict

We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

Nathan (@nathannunn.bsky.social) is one of my favorite scholars, and this interview with Scott is very nice. Scott is doing a great service documenting our living disciplinary history. youtu.be/6i6eyRNaHOI?...

#Econsky #polscisky #EconConf 10 days left to submit papers for the IEB Workshop on Political Economy. 📌 Submission deadline: March 16, 2025 🗣️ Keynote speaker: Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown Unversity) 📅 June 2-3, 2025 📍 Barcelona More information: ieb.ub.edu/en/event/wor...

New publication on HPE on State Capacity in Latin America! Daniel Baquero (not in Blsky yet) and I recently wrote a review of recent books on State Formation and State Building, and tried to extract idea on how this literature could move forward (with a focus on Latin America). (1/4)

🛵Reminder application deadline in March 3 for MoPED Berlin: our political economy of development workshop June 2024 bsky.app/profile/did:... please share!

New Broadstreet post is up! By @markkoyama.bsky.social www.broadstreet.blog/p/feudalism-...

🚨 The proposal deadline for the Yale-UB HPE workshop is fast approaching! 🚨 We'll count with amazing Saumitra Jha (@saumjha.bsky.social) & Steven Wilkinson. Info of previous editions at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew CC @cescamat.bsky.social (UB convener) Help us spread the word!

How did modern democracy spread so widely? @stasavage.bsky.social with an interesting review of our book "The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy" (and other recent contributions on the topic) in the JHPE. Important discussion in these difficult times. www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

Yesterday, we had the pleasure to receive the Ambassador of the European Union Jekaterina Doródnova at the #USFQ and at the Center for European Studies (USFQ) The development of research and teaching activities on #EuropeanStudies is among our top priorities !

En un mundo que dispara opiniones a quemarropa, decir “No tengo una opinión formada sobre eso” es ya casi un acto de subversión. Me da pánico la gente que tiene una opinión casi categórica sobre absolutamente todo.

Come join us at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social in June!

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

Broadstreet, the blog for historical political economy, is now on Substack. Please subscribe at the link!

Polisky There is time until February 5th to apply to take part in the first virtual research workshop of @winls.bsky.social on April 25th! If you are interested in presenting or discussing please fill this form: forms.gle/mqSQfndUo2V4...

📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk @didacqueralt.bsky.social

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

My course "Global Policy Analysis" will again be open to a select number of remote students from low- and middle-income countries via Zoom. Course starts on Feb 18th, application deadline Tuesday, February 5th. Link to the application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...