New working paper from me & some colleagues on East Africa's maize markets from c. 1900 to today, based on a major data collection effort to fill in the long-run history of food prices in one of the world's poorest regions: www.aehnetwork.org/working-pape...

CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South CFP Deadline 3 February 2025 Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE Organised by myself and Neil Cummins Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group

Just arrived in my inbox: academic publisher spam taken to the next level... Did I sign up for this?

I'm still conflicted about migrating to this platform. I don't think it's a healthy development that social media are now also politicized & polarized. But the fact is that X has become a cesspool & professionally worthless. So let's give this a try. I'll keep my X account on the back burner.