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Malik A. Hussain

@malikaltaf.bsky.social

Assistant Professor in Economics | IIM Amritsar | Economic history & public health in colonial India https://malikahussain.github.io/

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Amanda Gregg@amandagregg.bsky.social · 3w ago

Surprised, grateful, and (very) delighted that my article with Anne Ruderman has won the Cole Prize for best article published in the Journal of Economic History last year. Thank you, JEH and EHA! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core

Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast - Volume 85 Issue 3

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Malik A. Hussain@malikaltaf.bsky.social · 4w ago

A great conversation. @ndjohnson.bsky.social has an amazing way of explaining ideas and making them accessible. He discusses our paper on the 1857 Revolt and mistrust of smallpox vaccination in colonial India. For aspiring economic historians, well worth a listen. I think he needs his own podcast!

Noel Johnson@ndjohnson.bsky.social · 4w ago

I joined the Silk Road Revival podcast to talk about how I ended up in economic history and about two of my recent papers. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tddw...

IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800@ihrscb.bsky.social · last mo.

We're on the lookout for some PhD students who would like to give a Lightning Talk at our seminar on 12 November! Open to early modernists working on any geography, talks are 3-5 minutes! Get in touch via BlueSky or email tmt29@cam.ac.uk with a short summary of PhD and bio by 12 October! ✨🥳

Poster on Lightning talks: PhD Lightning Talks: Society, Culture, and Belief Seminar, 1500-1800, Institute of Historical Research. Deadline: 12 October, Event: Thursday 12 November, 5.30 pm The Society, Culture, and Belief Seminar is inviting applications for lightning talks from PhD students on their research. We ask that these talks be 3-5 minutes. This is a fantastic opportunity to talk through your research with a broader audience of fellow students and more seasoned academics, as well as test out some ideas in a comfortable and welcoming environment. The talks will be followed by a brief Q&A session. The seminar was founded in 1979, hosting papers on themes ranging from witchcraft and piracy to early modern medicine and urban religious practices. We look to create an open and welcoming atmosphere and are always excited to hear a broad range of papers and geographies. The event will take place on Thursday 12 November 2026, from 5.30 pm onwards. For those presenting in-person, we typically continue the conversation after the seminar over drinks or dinner. We’re open to applications from students working on any geographical region between 1500-1800. If you would like to participate, please email: tmt29@cam.ac.uk by 12 October 2026 with a 300-word thesis summary and a brief bio. If you would like to attend the seminar, do keep an eye out on our webpage (very soon to be updated with our events for this term) or you can always follow us on Bluesky @ihrscb.bsky.social. We tend to meet on Thursdays during term time at 5.30 pm — all are welcome!
Patrick Crawford@pjcrawford.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I got to put out a little piece in @promarket.bsky.social on my recent working paper. We’re doing some revisions right now, but I am proud of what we’ve done so far!

How Newspaper Competition Fueled Quebec’s 1837 Rebellion - ProMarket

In new research, Patrick Crawford and Vincent Geloso find that areas in Lower Canada with more newspaper competition were more likely to rebel in Quebec’s 1837 Rebellion. Irrespective of political lea...

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Applied Young Economists' Webinar@ayew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 FINAL REMINDER — 3 DAYS LEFT! 🚨 Hey #econsky! Only 3 days left to submit your paper for Season 13 of the AYEW! 📅 Deadline: Friday, 21 Aug 2026 📩 Submit here: forms.gle/5jsqgxLG1Jyv... Can’t access the form? Email us your paper instead! Details below ⬇️

Applied Young Economists' Webinar@ayew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#econsky 🚨Reminder: You have 2 weeks left to submit your work! We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions!

Bhumi Purohit@bhumi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 We're hiring for a 10-month Research Manager position in northern India 🚨 Gabi Kruks-Wisner, Anustubh Agnihotri, and I are looking to hire for a project on the intersection of social media + government accountability Application due before Sept 10th: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #polisky

Research Manager_RCT Digital Voices.docx

RESEARCH MANAGER POSITION Project: “When do digital voices augment government accountability?” Lead Researchers Dr. Anustubh Agnihotri Dr. Gabi Kruks-Wisner Dr. Bhumi Purohit Project Duration Oct...

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Noel Johnson@ndjohnson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

3/ Within the same province, holding geography, rail access, and gov spending constant, vaccination falls the closer a district sits to Lucknow, about 9 to 11 fewer infant vaccinations per 1,000 a year in the 1880s. It's sharpest in the Awadh core, the region collectively punished after the revolt.

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Noel Johnson@ndjohnson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

6/ The wider point: you don't need a medical scandal (e.g. Tuskegee, or, colonial sleeping-sickness campaigns) to seed vaccine hesitancy. A purely political act of state violence did it here, more than a generation later. With a shadow that lasted about as long as the people who remembered it.

Noel Johnson@ndjohnson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

5/ And it's the violence, not colonial cities in general. The same test on proximity to Delhi, Calcutta, or Bombay shows nothing like it. Only Lucknow is positive and peaks in the 1880s.

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Noel Johnson@ndjohnson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

4/ Why "half-life"? The effect peaks in the 1880s and is gone by the 1910s, tracking the cohort that was 10–25 in 1857 as they moved through their child-rearing years. A memory of state violence, decaying at roughly the speed of one human generation.

Noel Johnson@ndjohnson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧵1/ The half-life of a grudge. Britain crushed the 1857 revolt in northern India with mass reprisals centered on Lucknow. For decades after, districts closer to that violence vaccinated their children less against smallpox and the effect faded as the generation that lived through 1857 died off.

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Nathan Nunn 🇨🇦 🇰🇷@nathannunn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very much looking forward to the discussion... Please join if interested in the interplay of religious beliefs, broadly defined, and economic development...

3D Seminar@3dseminar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our next seminar will be held on June 25th, at 3 pm (UTC+2). David Fuechtjohann (GIZ) and Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia) will discuss the role of religion and religious actors in shaping economic and social development across the world. Register at: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...