"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Joel Mokyr at Nick Crafts 70th birthday conference in 2019 at @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social

Nobel laureate Professor Joel Mokyr drew on Peter Laslett, Jack Goody & the European marriage pattern to ground his new vision for “The Great Reversal and the Industrial Revolution”, a plenary address to the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference, December 10 2024 at Hong Kong Univ www.cqh.hku.hk

"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ❤️

How exceptional was Italy’s inequality path in the interwar years? What was the role of wars, depression, and authoritarianism?🚨 Our new paper w/ @ggabbuti.bsky.social explores these questions. Full article here 👇https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498325000622?via%3Dihub

@gregorigv.bsky.social & @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social use natural language processing and network analysis of economic history articles to identify a shift towards a more global, data-driven, and methodologically advanced field. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

🧵Economic History Transformed: What 25 Years of Data Reveal 1/ No longer just descriptive stats & British factories. It’s global, data-driven, and methodologically bold field. We analysed 25 years of publications in 5 top journals using NLP and network analysis. Here’s what we found 👇 @voxeu.org

📢 #InnovacióDocent amb impacte per als estudiants d’ #ADE! 💡 L’article a #REIRE mostra una activitat amb #Excel per fomentar la motivació i l’anàlisi crítica. 👉 doi.org/10.1344/reir... ✍️ G. Galofré-Vilà i M. Gómez-León #EducacióSuperior #UniversitatDeValència #CompetènciesDigitals

New WP 📄 out! Writing it with @gregorigv.bsky.social was super fun and thought-provoking. Thrilled with the final result. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did! Link below 👇

The workshop at @ehvalencia.bsky.social has started with Bruno Caprettini > "Where have all the workers gone? The contribution of labor to the Industrial Revolution" #past #history #technology #change @jvoth.bsky.social

And David Jacks with "Suez" #past #history #trade #technology #change #economics #econhis #shipping @chris-meissner.bsky.social

Great to be back home! What an outstanding workshop hosted by María Gómez León and @gregorigv.bsky.social at the University of Valencia. I had the pleasure of connecting with some truly brilliant and incredibly welcoming researchers.

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past. When? June 12-13, 2025. Where? València (Spain). Keynotes: Luigi Pascali and Bruno Caprettini #EconSky #Econhist

Just released. New WP on product quality and trade liberalization in France, 1850-1874. The economy was producing high quality items throughout, but liberalization decreased avg. quality but some main exports went up in quality. www.nber.org/papers/w33902

La historia económica importa, vaya si importa. Buena entrada en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social sobre temas, redes y autores (como siempre, fantásticos los enlaces). nadaesgratis.es/admin/es-el-...

After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊 I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.

¿Es el pasado útil para la economía? Cómo, dónde y qué se investiga en historia económica nadaesgratis.es/admin/es-el-... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

“la historia económica, como cualquier disciplina, no es neutra. Su evolución, sus métodos y su institucionalización afectan directamente a las narrativas que construimos sobre el pasado. Y esas narrativas, a su vez, influyen en cómo pensamos los problemas actuales”

🧵 ¿Sirve la historia económica para entender el presente? Sí, y cada vez más. @gregorigv.bsky.social y yo analizamos 25 años de publicaciones en las top-5 del campo usando análisis de redes y NLP. Descubre lo que revela el análisis en este post de @nadaesgratis.bsky.social

Esta investigación publicada en #REIRE identifica factores que afectan el rendimiento académico y la calidad de la educación básica y secundaria. ✒️ Miguel-Ángel Caro-Rivas, UMECIT (Panamá) (2025) doi.org/10.1344/reir...

@jvoth.bsky.social studied the factors that contribute most to a fulfilled life and his research shows that there is nothing better for a contented life than work. Learn more → www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even... #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS @econ.uzh.ch @nzz.ch

Thanks to Donald Boudreaux for his review of my book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850". www.independent.org/publications...

Cool paper! #econsky

The Our Long Walk Essay Competition just launched. Any African 25 or younger can apply. The prize money of $500 is not massive. But it is a start. (I'm funding it myself.) And you get your ideas published on the blog. Theme: 'Progress and Innovation in Africa's Past'. Please spread the message!

Reshaping Power, Wealth & Democracy through AI – @dacemoglumit.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social New Video Podcast on Spotify → open.spotify.com/episode/59RE... #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS @econ.uzh.ch @mitofficial.bsky.social @nobelprize.bsky.social

What is the meaning of life? What is the meaning of life? What would you remember as bringing satisfaction, meaning, and purpose to your life? These are the modest questions that David Lagakos, Stelios Michalopoulos and I try to answer by "interviewing" over 1,400 Americans.

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading! We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions. Link in 🧵 (1/n)

⬇️ recording of @pantras.bsky.social's @jeeanews.bsky.social - FBBVA lecture now here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=DHX... bsky.app/profile/eean...

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 led to a 72 percent relative increase in bilateral exports for affected country pairs and a likely permanent increase in world trade, from David S. Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner, and Nikolaus Wolf https://www.nber.org/papers/w33250

🎧 @samfriedman.bsky.social‬ was interviewed by @thetimes.com about his and @aaronreeves.bsky.social's new book, Born to Rule. In the podcast, Sam explains that although we might think today's Britain is more meritocratic, the elites who run political, economic and cultural life are much the same.

I keep saying “this is my last comment” but then I eat my words. So I won’t say it this time but you know I think it ;-) Summary of everything I've said since 15 Oct

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past. When? June 12-13, 2025. Where? València (Spain). Keynotes: Luigi Pascali and Bruno Caprettini #EconSky #Econhist

Updated work (with @ggabbuti.bsky.social) on "Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1900-1950" is now available in EHV-wp series www.ehvalencia.es/wp-content/u... #income #inequality #dynamic social tables# Wars #Depression #Fascism

My ERC team has created an account where they will share updates of the Stata and R packages they are working on, follow them! bsky.app/profile/erct...

Attention junior scholars in economic history. New call for papers: 9th Fast Track Meeting for the European Review of Economic History. Deadline is 30 January, 2024. For more information see academic.oup.com/ereh/pages/e...