Now on Early View: 'The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages'. By Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita & Spike Gibbs. @jordanclaridge.bsky.social @vincentdelabastita.bsky.social‬ @kingshistory.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre-industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in mediev...

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Research position 24 months: Money, History, and Moral Economies (1250-1530). See: jacozuijderduijn-miako.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/r...

Research position: Money, History, and Moral Economies (1250–1530)

The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-t…

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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Exploiting or Augmenting Labor?" by Michael Rubens, Yingjie Wu, and Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Exploiting or Augmenting Labor?

(Forthcoming Article) - We show that existing ‘production approaches’ to markdown estimation do not separately identify factor price markdowns from factor-augmenting productivity levels. We propose a ...

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Reminder: One week left till the paper submission deadline (15. May) for History of Recent Economics (HISRECO) at Radboud University Nijmegen

Ivan Boldyrev@ivanboldyrev.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025! hisreco.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/c...

Our @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has a new working paper on medieval wage inequality in England 📜 Read his summary below 🔽 #econhist #economics #lse #medievalhistory

Jordan Claridge@jordanclaridge.bsky.social · last yr.

@vincentdelabastita.bsky.social, Spike Gibbs and I have a new working paper out! We explore the dynamics of wage inequality in medieval England, which allows us to better understand the commercialization of labour markets in the Middle Ages. www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

🚨Our new working paper (w/ @jordanclaridge.bsky.social & Spike Gibbs) on medieval wage inequality is now available as a working paper with @lseechist.bsky.social 🚨 My esteemed Colleague @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has done a nice thread on this below! 👇

Jordan Claridge@jordanclaridge.bsky.social · last yr.

@vincentdelabastita.bsky.social, Spike Gibbs and I have a new working paper out! We explore the dynamics of wage inequality in medieval England, which allows us to better understand the commercialization of labour markets in the Middle Ages. www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025! hisreco.wordpress.com/2023/06/21/c...

Thanks to the Institute for Economic Affairs for indulging in my ramblings about my recent research! youtu.be/pXkofabuCBI?... @lseechist.bsky.social #econhist

How The Black Death Increased Worker's Wages: Medieval England's Economic Revolution | IEA Interview

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Really cool to see Jordan describing how the medieval economy worked! He covers interesting questions like: What is a peasant? How market oriented were medieval people? And what role did horses play in the medieval economy?

Jordan Claridge@jordanclaridge.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thanks to the Institute for Economic Affairs for indulging in my ramblings about my recent research! youtu.be/pXkofabuCBI?... @lseechist.bsky.social #econhist

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!

Write what you like

The Our Long Walk Essay Competition

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Just a reminder about this call for papers!

Eric Schneider@ericbschneider.com · 2y ago

CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South CFP Deadline 3 February 2025 Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE Organised by myself and Neil Cummins Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group

It was a great honor to present my work to this amazing group of economic historians! In this paper, Maarten Goos and I argue that 19th-century steam technology had drastic consequences for labor market competition! Stay tuned for the working paper! Thanks @jordanclaridge.bsky.social

Jordan Claridge@jordanclaridge.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very happy to have @vincentdelabastita.bsky.social at the LSE Economic History seminar with some interesting new insights on the role of technological change on labour markets. #econhist #laboureconomics

Hello @bsky.app! Let me start off my activity on this website by fully endorsing the beautiful thread that @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has made on our joint work on (in-kind) wages in the Middle Ages, available at *Explorations in Economic History*! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money

This paper explores the prevalence of in-kind wages in medieval labour markets and the underlying reasons for their use. Using a new dataset of agricu…

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Jordan Claridge@jordanclaridge.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper: “(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money” with @vincentdelabastita.bsky.social and Spike Gibbs is now out in Explorations in Economic History The paper is open access and here is a summary 🧵 (1/16) doi.org/10.1016/j.ee...

New paper: “(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money” with @vincentdelabastita.bsky.social and Spike Gibbs is now out in Explorations in Economic History The paper is open access and here is a summary 🧵 (1/16) doi.org/10.1016/j.ee...