Enrique Jorge-Sotelo

@ejorgesotelo.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Economic History at Universitat de Barcelona. Monetary and Financial History and Historical Political Economy. sites.google.com/view/ejorgesotelo

💬 Lo siento, pero tengo la sensación de estar mal informado. Sigo distintos medios y en todos lo mismo: imágenes, testimonios, relacion de medios técnicos a disposición, conexiones, análisis, opiniones, etc. Pero falta lo básico: la situación y el avance del fuego en cada caso.

A paper that studies how the Bank of England was transformed by the slave trade, “Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England” joint with Mina Ishizu came out in the Economic History Review this year. doi.org/10.1111/ehr.... 1/14

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This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were cal...

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The time to create a Eurobond market is now, Olivier Blanchard & Ángel Ubide write. Given geopolitical changes, world investors want an alternative to US Treasuries. Europe can deliver such an alternative & benefit from it.

Now is the time for Eurobonds: A specific proposal

Given the new geopolitical environment, there is wide agreement that Europe needs to achieve strategic autonomy. Autonomy has many dimensions. The most obvious today is military autonomy, building a s...

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La paulatina expansión de la fibra óptica en España permite analizar sus efectos causales, concluyendo un empeoramiento en la salud mental de los adolescentes. Esto es más grave en las chicas, quienes muestran más casos de ansiedad, depresión, autolesiones e intentos de suicido.

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New Broadstreet post by @pavisuri.bsky.social, who continues her series on state capacity. Today's post is on what we can learn about the origins and reversal of bureaucratic capacity in China & why state-building in China confounds scholars of Europe: www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-rise-a...

The rise and reversal of bureaucratic capacity: lessons from Chinese history

In a previous post, I discussed ways in which recent historical political economy research has advanced the study of state capacity.

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Join us in the Virtual Workshop in HPE. Very excited to present our new working paper on women local politicians in the Francoist period in Spain

Tine Paulsen@tinepaulsen.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, we have a rare Wednesday session in the virtual workshop in HPE! @pauvallprat.bsky.social is presenting work w. @albahuidobro.bsky.social on the long-term effects of women’s representation under autocracy. Ana Tur-Prats (UC Merced) is discussing, so we’re bound to learn a ton