A new paper from T. Z. Pereira revisits one of the core claims about 19th-century Brazil: that high inflation meant long-run stagnation. New evidence from 20,000 monthly quotations shows that inflation was overestimated, and real income growth after 1850 was stronger than previously thought.

How much did it matter to grow up in a household without a male breadwinner? In early-twentieth-century urban Spain, longitudinal data show long-term costs: men had lower biological well-being (by height), reported more health problems at age 21, and died earlier. #EconHistory #Inequality

Article: Methodological fragmentation in economics: plurality, tensions, and productive paradoxes, by Florian Bally-Rommel doi.org/10.1080/0967...

A new blog post and article on the development of tax farming and its replacement by state-run collection. "Tax Farming and State Capacity: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia" By M. Hup Find the blog here: ehes.org/2026/04/27/t...

🚨🚨New article available online! 🚨🚨 "Land use and agricultural lease incomes in Argentina’s Pampas, 1895–1947: A quantitative approach" By Emiliano Salas Aron Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Land use and agricultural lease incomes in Argentina’s Pampas, 1895–1947: A quantitative approach

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between leases and income, and the agricultural sector’s output, during the Pampas expansion in Argentina (1895–1947). The findings sho...

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📢 Postdoc opportunity at @UB-IPERG (University of Barcelona) 1-year position in Historical Political Economy. 💶 €35–40k | Start: Fall 2026 🗓️ Deadline for Expressions of Interest: June 5, 2026 All the info: 🔗 www.ub.edu/iperg/postdo...

Why did Cape Colony households keep accumulating slaves after Britain banned the trade in 1807? Household-level panel data from two contrasting districts points to slaves functioning as capital assets, not just labour. @LundUniversity #EconHist #Slavery #CapeColony #Cliometrics

A summary of my PhD, which was shortlisted for the Luzzatto prize of the European Historical Economics Society, has been published in the European Review of Economic History! Many thanks to the @theehes.bsky.social for this opportunity to share my research! academic.oup.com/ereh/article...

Léa Leboissetier, “The Peddler, The Reformer and The Police. The Evolution and Regulation of Itinerant Trading in Britain (1860s–1940s)” PhD, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2024)

The second half of the nineteenth century is often associated with the disappearance of peddling in Europe, as a result of urbanization and the proliferati

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Was Venice really the benchmark of Italian decline? New wage data (1390–1790) reveal when rural–urban labour markets decoupled (plagues) and how the wage gap evolved. Our novel welfare ratios (maize diffusion + rural prices) revise the long-run picture.

New article and blog post! "Rural Penalty in Morbidity: Cause-Specific Morbidity among Working-Class Men and Women in Early Twentieth Century Sweden" By L. Eriksson, L. F. Andersson and B Harris

Interesting article about why Ashanti (in modern-day Ghana) didn't mint coins, though they mined gold, were familiar with coins and had the skills to mint coins. Instead, the kingdom adopted gold dust – weighed precisely for transactions – as currency: aeh.uwpress.org/content/53/1...

War, Finance, and Monetary Reform in Ashanti, 1807–1935

Gold dust was introduced as legal tender in Ashanti during Osei Tutu’s reign, which ended around 1712. During the nineteenth century, gold dust ran short in Ashanti principally because of the changing...

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A new issue of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought is now available www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another issue of Economic Thought: History, Philosophy, and Methodology is available online et.worldeconomicsassociation.org/issues/vol-1...

A new article and blog post "Historical Monetary Strategies: Achieving Long-Term Price Stability in Medieval Sweden" By R. Edvinsson and R. Svensson

A new article and blog post: "Inequality in Child Mortality Persists Between Generations in the Netherlands, 1835–1919" From Ingrid van Dijk (@ingridvandijk.bsky.social)

New article and blog post now available: Women’s Union Awakening: Early Impacts on Gender Wage Gaps (Yecla, Spain, 1895-1935) P Beneito, J J García-Gómez & A Martínez-Soto show unions raised men’s wages—but not women’s, widening the gap. Early unions were ineffective advocates for female workers.

A new article and blog post! "Procuring Promising Provisions: the British Patent System and the Navy Proviso, 1794–1831" By Stephen Billington (@steve-bill-econ.bsky.social) and Joe Lane doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

Procuring Promising Provisions: the British Patent System and the Navy Proviso, 1794–1831

Abstract. In 1794, the British State intervened in the patent system by introducing the Navy proviso, a legal proviso targeted at select patents compelling

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Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉 Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community. #HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService

New paper and blog post! "The Edwardian Property Slump: An Historical Analysis (1895-1914)" By A. M. Samy doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

Measuring the Edwardian Property Slump: House Prices and Rents in Residential London, 1895–1914

Abstract. The Edwardian property slump was a major housing downturn that affected London before the First World War; however, existing house price indices

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This workshop is co-organised by @pmaneuvre.bsky.social, @victorgayeco.bsky.social, @jeanlacroix.bsky.social, @thomasbaudin.bsky.social, @mariebgl.bsky.social‬. Members of #econhist, @echistsoc.bsky.social, @theehes.bsky.social — please circulate! Many of you may be interested 🙌

Now on Early View: 'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'. By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger. @camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social ‪@yaleemd.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus o...

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At long last, my full book manuscript is off to the publisher for the final time. 18 months of 5am wake-ups have resulted in 110,000 words about Americans long, contentious struggle to come to terms with George Washington and slavery. Forthcoming from @uncpress.bsky.social in 2026!

🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce” 📌 €25,000/year + fees 📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed 📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025 👉 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... #PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs

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🚨#PhDopportunity Alert🚨 Apply or circulate: A fully funded #PhDposition in #Sociology with @nicolekapelle.bsky.social at @tcdsociology.bsky.social to study "The Economics of Late-Life Divorce in High-Income Countries" Deadline: July 21 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab... @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

⏰ Deadline Approaching – Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Award ⏰ The European Historical Economics Society invites submissions for the Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Award for outstanding doctoral work in economic history. 🗓 Deadline: 30 June 2025

New paper and blog post: "The Land of Opportunity? Social Class, Returns to Migration, and Occupational Mobility of Swedish Immigrants, 1880–1910" By M. Castillo doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

The Land of Opportunity? Social Class, Returns to Migration, and Occupational Mobility of Swedish Immigrants, 1880–1910

Abstract. I study the economic returns to migration among Swedish immigrants in the United States in 1900 and 1910, by social class. Using linked data from

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July 1 is the deadline for submissions to the SJ Butlin Prize ($1000) for the best PhD or Masters thesis on Australian or New Zealand economic history accepted from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025. Enquiries to the selection committee chair at martin.shanahan@unisa.edu.au 📉📈🗃📗🍎 #history #AcademicSky

We're looking for candidates to apply for a three-year postdoc! @marrv.bsky.social @tamboduc.bsky.social @upna.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/postdo...

Postdoctoral Researcher Support for Ramón Areces Grant Proposal

The Economic History Unit at the Department of Economics, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), is excited to offer support to a postdoctoral researcher in preparing a grant proposal for the Fundación ...

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#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social‬ team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵

Historical Research and Policy Making

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New blog post! Why did wages remain stagnant in Ottoman state textile factories during the second half of the nineteenth century? Tamer Güven (@tmrguven.bsky.social) constructs a new wage series for Ottoman state textile factories using unexplored archival records from the Ottoman Archives.