Hard to overstate how big an impact Ireland has over some globally significant data series. The euro area's overall current account also looks somewhat different if Ireland is excluded. Tax avoidance is a major global distortion that too many economist downplay!

⬇️ The journey started in 2014 discussing cases of money doctors, aka individuals involved in restoring the value of the currency. In 7 workshops @WEHC2015 WEHC Boston 2018 XIX World Economic History Congress, Paris 2022 & Banque de France. Thanks to my coeditors, authors & to Fabrice Hermel and Bruno Cabrillac for support

Flandreau Schule & Friends had great fun last week workshopping « States of Distress » at Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE Karina Patrício Vincent Bignon Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics Damian Clavel Kim Oosterlinck Daniel Reichert-Facilides ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thanks to all of you

Wanted: Hjalmar Schacht francetvinfo.fr/elections/legi…

Cher, cher François Morel

🌋 Revisiting the founding of Nova Friburgo, or the long Swiss colonial tail of a global climatic catastrophe into 19th-century Brazil. Thank you HAHR21 Duke University Press. 🔗 Read more: read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article-a…

Inflation-adjusted annual wages in Greece are today about 25% lower than in 2007, i.e. before the crisis started.

Our postgraduate diploma in Applied Economics and Big Data is a Springboard+ financed course, ideal for recent graduates in economics or those interested in reskilling. Springboard+ spaces are still available! TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy HEA Department of Further and Higher Education Apply now! 👉tinyurl.com/ym45tm24

We are co-organizing an Economic History Summer School with PHES Universidad de la República in Montevideo from December 5th to 7th. Travel and accomodation stipends are available. Please see ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/7th-sout… for more information.

We're organizing this workshop in Montevideo with an amazing team and keynote speakers. Check it out! Leticia Arroyo Abad Camilo Martínez Rodríguez

Very happy to start TCD Economics this week! Come say hi if you are ever in Dublin!

The latest issue of Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics is OUT! FREE ACCESS FOR ONE MONTH!!! Please RT to help us expand access!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Jonathan Donald Jenner Helen Tilley Tim Barker Chris Hughes marc flandreau CN Biltoft Penn Press muse.jhu.edu/issue/53014

Check out the CEPR & Young Scholars Initiative #CallforPapers, with deadline next week! cepr.org/events/cepr-ys… TCD Economics QUB Economic History SDU Economic History Trinity Research in Social Sciences Geneva Graduate Institute Inter History & Politics Syddansk Universitet Maylis Avaro Martin Hørlyk Kristensen Giovanni Mellace Paul Sharp #CFPs #EconHistory #JobMarket

Join me to welcome Furkan Elmas who will start his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania Penn History Below a very interesting document he found in the Ottoman archive. Sovereign debt history nerds, enjoy!

A clear-eyed discussion by Pilar Nogues-Marco of quantification issues informing the debate on the drain of India mentioned by ROY-HISTORY&MS (including an account of how the EIC settlement system enabled to transform trade imbalances into “Indian” debt). muse.jhu.edu/article/781336…

Very sad. World Health Organization (WHO) confirms that a 10-month-old baby in #Gaza is now paralysed due to #Polio. The first case in more than 25 years. Polio will not make the distinction between Palestinian & Israeli children. Delaying a humanitarian pause will increase the risk of spread among

More evidence that uncritical use of ChatGPT in the classroom can hurt learning. We have to be clear-eyed about what works and what doesn’t.

📚 Recent Publication News 📚 Professor Agustín Bénétrix has published "Automatic for the (tax) people ..." with Lorenz Emter & Martin Schmitz in Economic Policy. Read more 👉tinyurl.com/yrsx738y Oxford University Press TCD Social Sciences & Philosophy #econtwitter #econresearch

🎙️Maylis Avaro (Penn University) and Carmen Hofmann dive into the role of Sterling during the Bretton Woods era. Maylis argues that post-1945, the benefits of the sterling zone were overshadowed by the UK's use of the currency for political control. open.spotify.com/episode/1eJcJ3… Tune

Some news, very delighted to be writing my “Bergson’s Digital Premonitions” book as a faculty fellow amongst the wonderful Center on Digital Culture and Society, words coming soon Société des Amis de Bergson.