🌴 Applications are now open for the UB School of Economics Summer School Seeing Through the Algorithms: Machine Learning & AI for Economists, taking place from July 6 to 10, 2026! 📍 Location: @economiaempresaub.bsky.social, @ub.edu

NEW✨ Could climate shocks be the secret architects of cooperation? ⛈️🤝 ✍ My new article (with C. Guerriero) in Economica shows how environmental instability forces societies to innovate and democratize to survive. #EconSky #OpenAccess #Econ Read 👇: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The program for the "New perspectives on Middle Eastern Economic History workshop" on 9th of January is already available! revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hi.... Registration for the online event is open on the link!

‼️We are thrilled to announce that applications for the MSc in Economics at @ub.edu is officially open! 🌍Join the globally recognized programme in Economics designed for aspiring Researchers, Economists, and Policy Leaders dedicated to understanding and shaping today’s economic challenges.

📢 📢 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

Hoy escribo en El Diario sobre los motivos y soluciones a los abusos en la universidad www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

🍾 We are proud to announce “Introduction: New Perspectives in Global Economic History” by @alkaraman.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk ), author of the piece and editor of the special issue on global economic history in @rhi-ihr.bsky.social . Read it open access 👉 doi.org/10.1344/rhi-...

🚨 Meet our 2025-2026 PhD Job Market Candidates!   Learn more about the candidates & their research here👇🏽🧵

Happy to announce the IPERG Seminar Series at @ub.edu for this academic year! A great lineup of seminars and events is coming up — don’t miss it. 📅 Full schedule here: www.ub.edu/iperg/activi... @ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social

🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE)—organized jointly with @dkofanov.bsky.social & @tinepaulsen.bsky.social—we discuss state-of-the-art research on a regular basis. ‼️ We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Link & info in post #2.

L'Assemblea Feminista vol agrair el vostre compromís amb aquesta causa. El gran nombre d'adhesions a la carta ha dut per fi a la UB a pronunciar-se sobre aquests fets: assfeministaub.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/c...

Thrilled to share the program for the III Yale-UB HPE Workshop — a joint initiative bringing together HPE researchers across continents and disciplines. Huge thanks to our sponsors, presenters, and discussants. Can’t wait for a great conference! cc @cescamat.bsky.social (UB co-host)

📢 The application for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities is now open! Please share and RT! Economic History applications sought! Deadline: June 9, 2025, at 2:00 PM (CEST) Program website: phdeconomics.unisi.it Call and application portal: www.unisi.it/ricerca/dott...

⏳NOW HIRING! Call for applications for two Assistant Professor positions: 📁Applied Economics / History and Economic Institutions 🔴Deadline: 2 May 2025 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/lclfsgovxp Serra Húnter Programme by Research and Universities Department (Generalitat de Catalunya)

📢El #màster en Institucions i #Economia #Política té com a objectiu formar i preparar els estudiants amb les eines teòriques i empíriques per realitzar investigacions en els camps de les institucions polítiques i el canvi polític.  👉🏽 https://bit.ly/3KtBW4N @pisorribas.bsky.social

🚨We are recruiting! If you consider a PhD in Economic/Business History this is for you! 🎯 Fully funded incl. social security 🎯 2 position in Economic History, 1 in Business History 🎯 Friendly and supportive environment Check out our research if you’d like to know more about us.

‼️Applications open for the Summer School 2025 "The Political Economy of Immigration – Economics, Attitudes, and Votes: Unpacking Immigration Dynamics" ☀️ 30 June-4 July, 2025 📅 Application deadline: June 15th | Scholarships available until April 30th.

Call for papers: new Nature HSS collection! articles on computational analysis of #western-asia from when writing emerged c. 3500 BCE till 1500CE! #DANES @geophilologist.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social www.nature.com/collections/...

🚨 Call for papers - LSE's Hayek Programme and the University of Bologna sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...

📣 Call for papers 📣 In May, we’ll host a wonderful workshop for young economic historians 🤓 A great opportunity to get feedback in a friendly and supporting environment. I hope to see many in Gothenburg in May! Help us spread the word 🖖🏻

🔝 Join the @UniBarcelona educational community, the top university in Spain and ranked in the top 10% of economics departments worldwide. 🗞️ Discover more about our Summer School in this interview with @matteogamalerio.bsky.social, the programme academic coordinator. 🔗:

A modest proposal for how countries should respond to Trump's (threat of) trade wars—comments welcome! www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...

Sever post-doc possibilities for Mesopotamia archaeologists and with expertise in the region based in Bologna for a project I am involved with: www.origins-project.com/open-positions

❗📝Nuevo comunicado ¿Quién no ha sufrido violencia burocrática en la carrera investigadora? Quizá no le ponías nombre, pero todas hemos pasado por los terribles trámites burocráticos (1/2) 🔗 fji.precarios.org/contra-la-vi...

Per capre che cosa sta succedendo nell’Università italiana jacobinitalia.it/lemergenza-s...

Clear, comprehensive and a serious call for action from all of us…👉 “Pathogens don't respect politicians: US federal disruption poses a new threat to global public health” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Paul Krugman on how rejecting science and undermining the belief that government can be a force for good can have disastrous effects on health policy. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and...

📢 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

Please join a new session of Virtual HPE Workshop this Thursday at 12:30 EST! Federica Carugati is presenting her paper "Writing and the Early State: Information and State Capacity in Mesopotamia" (with @giacomobenati.bsky.social and @gabrielleon.bsky.social), discussed by @stasavage.bsky.social.

Broadstreet.blog is now on Substack!