The first iron-hulled, screw-driven ocean-going steamer was uniquely successful on the Britain-Australia route as a steam-assisted sailing ship rather than a sail-assisted steamship, according to economic historian Tim Hatton in his 2025 Butlin lecture! 📉📈🗃 📜 🍎 #history #AcademicSky #geosky #histsci

New in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review! 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 🍎😷 🛟 #history #AcademicSky #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #histsci #HistIR #philhist #Indigisky #SkyBack 🐳 #c19 #c18 #cssky

The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne. Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct. More info: Quoc-Anh Do ([email protected]) & Laura Panza ([email protected]) ECR & grad students particularly encouraged 📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky

The efficiency of Japanese stock markets 1924-43 changed with contingent events, institutions & government intervention, according to Hiryama & Noda using a capitalization-weighted price index. A war-related risk premium reduced market efficiency in the 1930s. OA in the Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃 #Japan

Japan's failure to enforce sanctions on Germany until late in WWI weakened the Allies’ commercial blockade, according to Chenxiao Li. Belated enforcement of sanctions marked an important milestone for state intervention in Japanese private assets. New in Asia-Pacific EcHR! 📉📈🗃 #history #Japan #WWI

Nan Li & Heqi Cai examine governance structures during the Tang-Song transition with cross-sectional county data 813 & 1080 AD that point to social transformations inc changes in bureaucratic institutions, econ development & enhanced state capacity centuries before Europe OA in Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃

As everyone ponders the odd puzzles in modern trade data, Songlin Wang shows that late 19th century improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data reflects key institutional reform & the importance of Hong Kong. New in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review! 📉📈🗃 #history #AcademicSky #polisky

Nan Li & Heqi Cai examine governance structures during the Tang-Song transition with cross-sectional county data in 813 & 1080 AD to show social transformations, inc changes in bureaucratic institutions & econ development, enhanced state capacity centuries before Europe. OA in Asia-Pacific EcHR! 📉📈🗃

Lead article in a new issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review is a sweeping reinterpretation of the southward shift in China's economy 671-1371 CE by Professor Zhiwu Chen and coauthors Open access 📉📈🗃📗 📜 🍎 #HistIR #medievalsky #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #history #China #trade

Hiryama & Noda use new metrics & a capitalization-weighted price index to show how the efficiency of Japanese stock markets 1924-1943 changed with contingent historical events & institutional features. A war risk premium reduced efficiency in the 1930s & contributed to war time volatility 📉📈🗃 #Japan

Chenxiao Li uses unpublished archival records to argue that Japan weakened the Allies’ commercial blockade of Germany by failing to enforce sanctions until late in WWI. Eventual enforcement was important domestically, paving the way for state intervention in private assets 📉📈🗃 #history #Japan #WWI

Songlin Wang uses the rich archival records of Chinese Maritime Customs & careful statistical analysis to show improvements in the quality of Chinese trade data during the late 19th century reflecting key institutional reform & the importance of Hong Kong 📉📈🗃 #history #AcademicSky #polisky #HistIR

Volume 65, Issue 1 of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review has been published with 5 articles, 3 dissertation summaries, and an editor's note. The geographic scope includes China, Japan, and India. 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 🍎😷 🛟 #history #AcademicSky #polisky #geosky #sociology #histsci #HistIR #medievalsky

Nan Li & Heqi Cai examine governance structures during the Tang-Song transition with cross-sectional county data from 813 & 1080 AD to show social transformations, inc changes in bureaucratic institutions & econ development, enhanced state capacity centuries before Europe OA in Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃

'Rise of the south: How Arab-led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE' by Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin & Kaixiang Peng argues that Arab & Persian Muslim traders account for the all-important southward shift in China's economy, in vol 65 of the Asia-Pacific Econ His Rev 📉📈🗃📗 📜 🍎 #HistIR #medievalsky

A reverse salient! During WWI Japan's economic sanctions on enemy business, eg German merchants, were less strict than those of European & US allies until late in the war, according to Chenxiao Li in a new paper in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Review 📉📈🗃📗📜🍎 #history #AcademicSky #policy #HistIR #Japan

Congratulations to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu whose paper "Property rights in a weak state: Evidence from land pawning in Qing Taiwan 1683–1895" won the Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize for best paper in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev doi.org/10.1111/aehr... 🍎📉📈🗃 #history #AcademicSky

Alex Persaud shows that a 1911 criminalization of select castes in Madras imposed new restrictions and reduced the share of indentured labourers returning home from Fiji at the end of their contracts. OA in the Asia-Pacific Econ His Rev 📉📈🗃📗 #history #AcademicSky #sociology #Fiji #Indiasky #polisky

In a new special issue Claire Wright reviews the movement to ‘re-engender’ business history & introduces five articles illustrating the importance of women's business for Australian & NZ history! 📉📈🗃📗📜🍎 #history #AcademicSky #sociology #gender #Auspol #Australia #womeninbusiness @auswhn.bsky.social

The female share of investors in Australian companies rose markedly in the 1880s & approached 50% in some sectors by the 1930s. Simon Ville & coauthors analyse the growth of female investing using new data in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Review 📉📈🗃📗📜🍎 #history #socsky #AcademicSky @auswhn.bsky.social

Louise Prowse argues that earnings from a ‘side hustle’ have been important for Australian rural women & rural communities much longer than has been appreciated. In the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev special issue 'Gendered Enterprise: Women & Australian Business History' 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky

Clare E.F. Wright reports women in the family firms common throughout the 20thC often inherited wealth but seldom invited into management or governance. New data demonstrate how business replicated the patriarchal structures of upper-class Australian families 📉📈🗃 #history #AcademicSky #sociology #oz

Unique oral history collection documents the important contribution of women to the great expansion of Australian wineries after 1960. Julie McInytre documents how women overcame sexism, balancing reproductive & domestic labour with agric business 📉📈🗃📗 📜🍎🍷 #history #AcademicSky #gendersky #sociology

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“Gendered enterprise: Women & Australian business history”, 5 original research articles framed by a thoughtful introduction in a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review doi.org/10.1111/aehr... 📉📈🗃📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky #sociology #gender

An unique oral history collection documents the important contribution of women to the great expansion of Australian wineries after 1960. Julie McInytre documents how women overcame sexism, balancing reproductive & domestic labour with agric business 📉📈🗃📗 📜🍎 #history #AcademicSky #geosky #sociology

Clare E.F. Wright reports women in the family firms common throughout the 20thC often inherited wealth but seldom invited into management or governance. New data demonstrate how business replicated the patriarchal structures of upper-class Australian families 📉📈🗃 #history #AcademicSky #sociology #oz

Cath Bishop & Nichole Hoskin show that entrenched understandings of gendered behaviours and local conditions shaped the disconnect between law and licensing practice as 19th century Victoria legalized female publicans but New Zealand & New South Wales did not! 📉📈🗃📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky #sociology

Louise Prowse argues that earnings from a ‘side hustle’ have been important for Australian rural women & rural communities much longer than has been appreciated. In the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev special issue 'Gendered Enterprise: Women & Australian Business History' doi.org/10.1111/aehr... 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜

The female share of investors in Australian companies rose markedly in the 1880s. By the 1930s it approached 50% in some sectors. Simon Ville & coauthors analyse the growth of female investing using new data in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Review. OA! 📉📈🗃📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky @auswhn.bsky.social

I am told I use my hands a lot when speaking 😮 #AHEC2024.

Sascha Becker concludes his plenary address on religion an economic development with a discussion of religious revivals that highlights the important work of UBC Professor Matt Lowe on the Welsh revival 1904-1905 mattlowe.site

Hot off the press! Gendered Enterprise: Women & Australian Business History, an exciting special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. Open access 📉📈🗃📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky #Australia #gendersky #smallbiz #polisky #geosky #sociology @auswhn.bsky.social @asia-pacific-echr.bsky.social

The hot new web site for the Economic History Society of Australia & NZ includes details of the next Australia-Pacific Economic & Business History Conference, at Monash University Feb 6-7 2025. Professor Tim Hatton will give the Noel Butlin lecture! 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky #demography #polisky

Our research suggests that England, Scotland, and Wales experienced an economic cost due to Brexit. But there is one place that is so far unaffected by Brexit: Northern Ireland. Why? Well, effectively because it continued from membership in the Customs Union with the European Union and Great

New in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev! Alex Millmow’s surprising account of the appointment of John McCarty to the ill-fated chair of economic history at Monash Uni using staff personnel files & confidential assessments of candidates 📉📈🗃📗📜 #history #AcademicSky #policy #edusky #Australia #politics

“Frontier of space, frontier of mind: The British invasion of Loonwonnylowe”, Don Ransom’s award-winning thesis, reconstructs the lives of Bruny Islanders as they struggled against the overwhelming force of the British Empire. OA summary in Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky #Indigisky

Shota Moriwaki in the Asia-Pacific EcHR uses rich micro data to argue metal & machinery manufacture expanded quickly in 1930s Osaka w/o mass production by subcontracting & outsourcing to small plants, using K efficiently & paying subsistence wages. OA! 📉📈🗃📜🏛️ 🍎📗 #history #AcademicSky #Japan #histsci

Drought, famine & Japanese occupation killed 1.8 million in Java 1944-45 & reduced births by 1.5M. Population declined 4%, according to a new OA paper by Pierre van der Eng in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. Further Losses 1946-49 were comparable! 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 😷 🛟 #history #AcademicSky #demography #Java #edusky

Property rights matter! In Qing Taiwan the pawning rather than sale of land improved economic efficiency in the presence of weak state capacity by easing land transfer to strangers, according to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. OA 📉📈🗃🏺📗 #history #AcademicSky #policy

“Frontier of space, frontier of mind: The British invasion of Loonwonnylowe”, Don Ransom’s award-winning thesis, reconstructs the lives of Bruny Islanders as they struggled against the overwhelming force of the British Empire. OA summary in Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky #Indigisky

Staff personnel files & the confidential assessment of candidates inform Alex Millmow’s surprising account of the appointment of John McCarty to the ill-fated chair of economic history at Monash Uni New in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev! 📉📈🗃📗📜 #history #AcademicSky #polisky doi.org/10.1111/aehr...

Property rights matter! In Qing Taiwan the pawning rather than sale of land improved economic efficiency in the presence of weak state capacity by easing land transfer to strangers, according to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu in the Asia-Pacific EcHR 📉📈🗃🏺📗 #history #AcademicSky #polisky

Drought, famine & Japanese occupation killed 1.8 million people in Java & reduced births by 1.5M, implying a 4% net population loss, according to a new review by Pierre van der Eng in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. Further losses 1946-49 were comparable! 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 😷 🛟 #history #AcademicSky #demography #Java

Shota Moriwaki in the Asia-Pacific EcHR uses production functions on rich micro data to argue metal & machinery manufacture expanded quickly in 1930s Osaka w/o mass production by subcontracting & outsourcing to small plants, using K efficiently & paying subsistence wages! 📉📈🗃📗 #history #AcademicSky

Rainfall shocks & water scarcity hampered investment & growth in early 20thC Asia. Nath, Cheng & Ratnoo et al in the Asia-Pacific EcHR argue that irrigation helped, but uneven public water management worsened regional inequality. OA 📉📈🗃📗 #history #AcademicSky #polisky #geosky #Punjab #Madras #Taiwan

CFP: the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference Dec 9-10 2024 at Hong Kong University. Keynotes by Sascha Becker & Joel Mokyr. Submit 3-5 page proposals or full papers by May 31; acceptance by July 15. 📗📉📈🗃🏺🩺📊 #Episky #history #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #AcademicSky #c19 #c18 #cfp

'Frontier of Space, Frontier of Mind: The British Invasion of Loonwonnylowe' by Don Ransom (PhD, U of Tasmania) is the winner of the SJ Butlin Prize for best thesis in Aus or NZ econ history 2020-22 economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/news/ 📉📈🗃🏺#history #sociology #AcademicSky #Indigisky #Australia

Indigenous outnumbered White settlers until ~1850 in Australia, says Boyd Hunter who points to the impact of disease & frontier violence in his review of Butlin’s back-cast population model. OA doi.org/10.1111/aehr... 📉📈😷📗🗃🏺#history #demography #geosky #sociology #AcademicSky #Indigisky #Australia