What a way to end what feels more like a life chapter than a #research project! 🎊 It was a pleasure to share what we have learnt about #colonialism, #slavery and #inequality. And now, onto new horizons 🚀

Better late than never 😅 Arrived in Lund to join the #WEHC2025 where i’ll share new research on #WomenEmpowerment , #welfare gains from #trade, and on #social mobility after emancipation from #slavery. Come and say hi if you’re around!

Now live the #Gothenburg workshop in #EconomicHistory. Keynotes by Markus Lampe and Jakob Molinder and a great variety of presentations, from #trade, to #humancapital, to #policy and #institutions. Well done Juan Pablo Julià, Giulia Martini and Raisa Rubio!

🚨🫵🏻 2 weeks to the deadline! Come and join us in beautiful Göteborg! ‼️ What do we offer? Full funding (social security and a very competitive salary), an excellent research environment, plenty of support, and a crowd of colleagues to die for 🤓 #PhDposition #econtwitter #academia

🚨New paper alert! 🎯In it, we study how enslaved persons resisted this awful institutions. 🔑 We find that, contrary to previous literature, resistance and acts of rebellion where common among all groups of enslaved, irrespective of gender or rank.

10/ Please help share our extended replication to correct the record on this misleading policy evaluation! Full replication text here: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

🥳 🙈 Stoked and excited that I’ll head a new #research #project focusing on mapping social stratification in historical #Argentina using micro-level sources. 💰 Thanks Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse samt Tore Browaldhs Stiftelse! Today, you’ll find me soaking in the sun!

🧵How does perfect inequality look like? 🔎 Zoom on the sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean, and you will find inequality levels so close to perfect inequality and so persistent as it have never been estimated before. doi.org/10.1007/s116...

‼️‼️ Make sure to register to register to this wonderful chance to listen to Nobel prize winner Claudia Golding. The event will be broadcasted on livestream, make sure you don’t miss it! 🖥️ www.gu.se/en/event/cla...

Tariffs are also a *regressive* tax on Americans, which means that the burden falls more heavily on lower-income Americans. Income taxes are the opposite. So shifting taxation from income taxes to tariffs is a transfer of money from low-income Americans to high-income Americans.

👀 Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join our wonderful unit in beautiful Göteborg, Sweden! 2-3 fully funded doctoral position in Economic/Business history ✌️Join a young and supportive bunch of researchers with the unique opportunity to develop your own research agenda!

🚨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.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications 23 April 2025. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Imagine if chefs: Sourced the ingredients Cooked the meal Tested each other's dishes Handed over their recipes …then PAID a corporation $$$ so you can eat it That's the business model we're looking at here

Istanbul University students protesting the detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu. They are directly challenging the government which has banned all gatherings.

‼️ Call for papers: 📌 Young economic historians 📌 Any research and 🌎 areas welcome! Come visit us in beautiful Göteborg! And 🫵🏻 don’t forget to spread the word!

New publication Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s By K. Rönnbäck (@klasronnback.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy) S. Galli (@galli-stef.bsky.social) and Dimitrios Theodoridis academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...

📣 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 🖖🏻

Demographers ability to model the global population ("10 billion by 2050 followed by plateau") rely on DHS surveys. Without them we're blind to large parts of the globe and quality of forecasts will go down. Which is of course a non-issue if planing-horizons don't extend beyond next Friday.

Late to the game, but had a wonderful time last week presenting my and Chris Absell new project on trade liberalisation @ub.edu! Thanks to @federicotadei.bsky.social and @joseperescajias for the invitation and to Spain for being 20 degrees warmer than Sweden. #econhist #tariffs #trade

Finally my open access Cambridge Element in Corpus Linguistics is online! Please share widely to anyone interested, anywhere. Keywords: news discourse sentiment in news intersectional analysis Czech language #CorpusLinguistics #CADS www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Sciences Po is hiring an Assistant Professor on Digital Inequalities. Candidates should have strong theoretical/methodological skills, and an ambitious research agenda on social stratification and inequality. www.sciencespo.fr/osc/sites/sc...

🚨 Job alert: economic historians look here! Jon us at the University of Gothenburg! 1-3 postdoc positions available within a great research environment and with minimal teaching obligations.

🚨𝗝𝗢𝗕 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 🚨1 PhD position for 3 years in the research project “Mining Frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th Century)” at the German Mining Museum Bochum: Leibniz Research Museum for Georesources. karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/0...

‼️ New article out (my all time favourite). In it, we examine how #elites form, maintain their position, and influence the society they control. Our work is central to the debate on #inequality and helps explaining the #persistence of high inequality levels across the world.

📌 If you’re interested in #institutions and #persistence, this is for 🫵🏻 Did #emancipation contribute to improve the economic standing of formerly enslaved in the Caribbean? 🏝️ 🎯 The answer? Unfortunately, no. Inequality remained as high as prior to emancipation: but how?

📌If you have no clue what I have been busy with over the past 5 years, then this is for 🫵🏻 The articles discusses the construction of the Danish West Indies (DWI) panel, the largest historical datasets for the Global South as of today 🌎

Curious about how emancipation from slavery impacted on learning? My latest article, co-authored with Klas Rönnbäck and Dimitris Theodoridis, examines just that. academic.oup.com/ereh/advance... #economichistory #education #development

🎬 Back with a new term of exciting new research at our @goteborgsuni economic history seminar series! Our seminars are in hybrid form, so if you would like to join us to present or just listen, get in touch 📩 www.gu.se/en/school-bu...

The strike of Swedish workers against Tesla is more important than it looks. Strikes are one of the few actions workers have to dissent and can make a major difference, let’s not forget what the matchgirls were able to achieve. A great takeaway on the matter (Swedish) www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...