Gregori Galofré-Vilà

@gregorigv.bsky.social

I work at the intersection of political economy and economic history. I listen Superchunk and Don Caballero.

New study suggests areas hit harder during the Blitz were more likely to back Brexit in 2016 - not simply because of economics or demography, but because wartime experience appears to have endured in local memory and political culture.

WWII bombing may have helped shape the geography of Brexit, new study suggests

Areas hit harder during the Blitz were more likely to back Brexit in 2016 - not simply because of economics or demography, but because wartime experience appears to have endured in local memory and…

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Really pleased to see our global stunting data up on our world in data. We hope it helps people contextualise child stunting in a much longer historical lens. Thanks to Hannah and Tuna for visualising and explaining the data so well! The link to the original paper is here: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 3mo ago

✍️ New article: “Childhood stunting fell dramatically over the 20th century” One in four children in the world today suffers from “stunting”. That’s 150 *million* children under five. A stunted child is too short for their age due to poor nutrition and frequent infections.

Line chart of childhood stunting rates in Japan by birth cohort from 1892 to 2011 where the rate falls from about 70% in the early 1900s to below 5% by the 2000s, illustrating Japan’s dramatic decline over the 20th century. Dashed horizontal lines show 2015 reference rates for other countries spanning 10 to 60% (examples: 60% in Burundi and East Timor; 50% in Guatemala and Niger; 10% in Thailand and Costa Rica), and a data gap is noted for the World War II cohort. Data source: Eric Schneider et al. (2026) via OurWorldInData.org.

What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)

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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

Nobel laureate Professor Joel Mokyr speaking at the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference, December 10 2024, hosted by Hong Kong University's Centre for Quantitative History www.cqh.hku.hk

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

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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.

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“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”

Nada es Gratis@nadaesgratis.bsky.social · last yr.

¿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