📢 The program for the 4th edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop is out! 📍 Barcelona · 🗓️ June 29–30 Two days of talks ahead — really looking forward to it! Jointly organized with the great @Didacqueralt.bsky.social

The day the music died www.npr.org/2026/05/25/5...

There is still time to apply for the Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality, organized in Milan by @dondenacentre.bsky.social and @ucstonecenter.bsky.social! Early-career researchers, join us for this great experience! (deadline May 15) stonecenter.uchicago.edu/events/summe...

truly alarming trend theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

This absolutely fucks www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

UB HPE Graduate Workshop Date: 10th of April 11:00h. Location: Aula 2019, Facultat d'Economia i Empresa at the University of Barcelona (Av. Diagonal 696)

Examining the dramatic growth and evolving role of postdoctoral researchers in the US scientific workforce from 1979 to 2023, showing a fourfold increase in postdoc numbers that outpaced growth in graduate students and faculty, from Ginther and @jlrosenbloom.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35014

🎓 UB School of Economics + @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social    Take your academic journey further with the Master in Institutions and Political Economy (MIPE) Dual Degree: a unique pathway that connects us with KCL.

📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1

🚀 New! Pleased to share my new article (with C. Guerriero), “The Origins of (a Culture of) Cooperation,” now out in JLEO. We show how climate shocks and institutions shaped the emergence of cooperative norms in ancient Mesopotamia. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jleo... #economics #politics #econsky

Submission deadline approaching - March 31: 19th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network (AEHN) The AEHN, and the Unit for Economic History at the University of Gothenburg, warmly welcomes submissions on any aspect of African economic history.

🌴 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!