📢 Call for Papers "Distributional Consequences of Trade Policy in Historical Perspective” 📅 Dec 4, 2026

Submission deadline approaching - March 31: 19th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network (AEHN) The AEHN, and the Unit for Economic History at the University of Gothenburg, warmly welcomes submissions on any aspect of African economic history.

📝Call for Papers: 19th Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network (AEHN).   We warmly welcome submissions on any aspect of African economic history. The submission deadline is 31 March, 2026. We look forward to seeing you in Gothenburg in October!

👉🏻 A great postodoc opportunity on Marine Environmental History: ✅multidisciplinary research environment ✅minimal teaching and admin duties ✅generous salary package ✅long tenure (2.5 years) Want to know more? contact my colleague per.hallen@gu.se! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

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

Stefania Galli@galli-stef.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨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.

🚨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...

Almost perfect inequality: long-run evidence on wealth distribution from the Danish West Indies 1760–1914 - Cliometrica

It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little previous evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture, with levels of wealth inequality...

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‼️‼️ 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...

Claudia Goldin: Why Women Won

Join the 2025 edition of the Tore Browaldh Lecture, where Nobel Laureate and Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin talks about women's societal and economical changes and impact.

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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.

Where We Stand: The Fiscal, Economic, and Distributional Effects of All U.S. Tariffs Enacted in 2025 Through April 2

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👀 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!

Stefania Galli@galli-stef.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨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.

🚨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

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

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

bianet@bianet.org · last yr.

Öğrenciler, barikatları aştı, İstanbul Üniversitesi Ana Kapısı’na ulaştı. 📹 : @alidnc.bsky.social

‼️ 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!

Economic History Workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden

Call for papers for the Economic History Workshop! The workshop will gather young researchers in a friendly and non-imposing environment where they can present their research and receive constructive ...

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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...

Numeracy and the legacy of slavery: age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s–1880s

Abstract. In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to ac

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📣 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 🖖🏻

CfP: Economic History Workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden (deadline 15 marzo 2025)

Department of Economy and Society, Unit for Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-17 May 2025 Local organiser: Svante Prado; Bart van Holstejin; Giulia Martini; Raisa Rubio Keynote…

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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.

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · last yr.

War on Science update: DHS does surveys around the world. It's a key part of how we understand the world. Web of Science has 3501 items that mention DHS in the metadata; currently averaging about 350 per year. The last contract to run it was about $57 million per year. dhsprogram.com/Who-We-Are/N...

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...

Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus

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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.

Elite persistence and inequality in the Danish West Indies, 1760–1914

The issue of how elites as a social group form, maintain their position, and influence the society they control is central to the debate on inequality…

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📌 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?

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Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons’ prospects to improve their socio-economic status like after ...

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