Reminder: Apply for our workshop on Political Economy and Economic History by April 30th. It's on 10th and 11th June, there is no workshop fee.

The Department of Economics at the University of York is pleased to invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop in Political Economy and Economic History, which will take place Wednesday 10 to Thursday 11 June 2026 in York. The theme of the workshop is: "In time and space"

Finally in print in the JEH: Nikolaus Wolf and I study the Congress of Vienna as a natural experiment that changed European borders and may have left Prussia with the geography that would unify the German Empire. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Time for Growth" by Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Time for Growth

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper investigates the adoption, diffusion, and long-run impact of the public mechanical clock, one of the most important high-technology machines in history, on European ...

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Handelsströme sind ein Werkzeug der Geopolitik. Das spielte schon bei der Entstehung des Deutschen Reichs eine Rolle. Neue Forschung von @thilohuning.bsky.social und Nikolaus Wolf

Wie die Briten aus Versehen Deutschland vereinigten

Handelsströme sind ein Werkzeug der Geopolitik. Das spielte schon bei der Entstehung des Deutschen Reichs eine Rolle.

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We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work. 🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25 💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month
 🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Thank you for the amazing podcast episode and for featuring @thilohuning.bsky.social and my research on the role of wine growing for long-run regional development in Baden-Württemberg (academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...) in the episode!

Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg

Abstract. Historical winegrowing shaped modern rural development, even in areas in which its cultivation was given up after the early modern period. We pro

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History of the Germans Podcast@hotgpod.bsky.social · last yr.

The counts of Württemberg had risen to the top by winning the genetic lottery. Their eldest sons were competent, their wives brought in dowries and they each ruled for long enough that the next generation took over when they were ready. But all that nearly fell apart in the 15th century......(1/3)

New Publication Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg By F. Wahl (@wahlfabi.bsky.social) and T. H. Huning (@thilohuning.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg

Abstract. Historical winegrowing shaped modern rural development, even in areas in which its cultivation was given up after the early modern period. We pro

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Can winegrowing cause rural development? @wahlfabi.bsky.social and I have just published our little piece on this in the European Historical Economics Review! academic.oup.com/ereh/advance... #econhist #economics #history

JMP by Yannis Kastis with @hillaryvipond.bsky.social It's both an immigration paper & an adoption-of-technology paper. I didn’t know this: immigration of Jewish tailors from the Pale was very important in the rise of mass garment production in Victorian England jkastis.github.io/yanniskastis...

@isahuning.bsky.social and I have written a short piece on the cost of raising a child: theconversation.com/raising-a-ch...

Raising a child from birth to 18 in UK now costs more than £200,000 – here's why

Childcare now constitutes around 60% of the overall cost of raising a child in the UK.

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Virtual issue of JEH in honour of Claudia Goldin: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...