🚨 Keynote lecture by Richard von Glahn (UCLA) 🎥 "Modalities of the Fiscal State in Imperial China in Comparative Perspective" at our inaugural conference "The Chinese Economy in the Long Run" last month at The University of Manchester youtu.be/6znO1fyx9-I

PhD students in economic history, come present at our graduate seminar this Lent term! 📢 Quant 📊and Qual 📜✍️, all regions 🌍, all time periods⌛ Deadline to apply: 30th November 📅

Thoughts on the meaning of the protests in China from Taisu Zhang Guobin Yang Pamela Crossley China Heritage Yangyang Cheng James Millward 米華健 and Rebecca Karl-chinafile.com/conversation/c…

"Politically, Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, has violated a time-tested technique his predecessors used to defuse social tensions: divide and conquer," says Yasheng Huang 黄亚生. nyti.ms/3VspQNF

Here’s one lesson we can all learn from early modern and modern history: stable regimes always need to capture at least one powerful segment of society and keep it on their side. It can be aristocrats, it can be gentry, it can be capitalists or the intelligentsia, or it… 1

The votes are in. Find out what critics have voted the Greatest Film of All Time #SightAndSoundPoll

NEW: "2022 was probably the best year for economic history books since 2009" Best economic history books of this year, chosen by Davis Kedrosky: fivebooks.com/best-books/bes… Books by DeLong🖖, Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin, jan luiten van zanden, James Belich, Marrten Prak, Debin Ma, Richard von Glahn

(1/5) ‘The Best Job in the World’ out now in Feminist Economics, co-authored with Jane Humphries. UK economists and policymakers have underestimated the significance of gendered labor in #coal mining. bit.ly/3ZlOi5w @luhc Oxford Economic & Social History

Our 2023 Hilary Term seminar programs are out. Both seminar series will take place at Nuffield College and via Zoom - mark the dates ✍️! #econhist #twitterstorians

Ok, the book is finally available (after numerous logistical delays since August). So here’s a thread about its main thesis. The central puzzle is tries to solve is why late imperial Chinese taxation (specifically, Qing taxation) was so unbelievably low. 1 amazon.com/Ideological-Fo…

LSE Chinese Economic and Social History Workshop I will be hold online on March 12th and 13th. We invited Taisu Zhang and Elizabeth Kaske for keynote speeches and a range of scholars from multiple discipline. sign up via forms.gle/zjn2chyVszCzps… LSE Department of Economic History

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📚 The best books in the history of economic thought, recommended by our Emeritus Chichele Professor of Economic History, Avner Offer (⁦Oxford Economic & Social History⁩) #econhist #twitterstorians shepherd.com/best-books/the…

Big Congrats to our 2022/23 winners of Feinstein Prize for best MPhil dissertation Jingyang Rui and Thirsk Prize for best MSc dissertation Kryštof Jirků in Economic and Social History! #econhist #twitterstorians

Welcome back to the new academic year with the term cards for our two seminar series both out Oxford Economic & Social History #econhist #twitterstorians

How intellectually and on personal level fulfilling to read Johannes reviewing the major works of Prof Jiwei Ci newleftreview.org/issues/ii143/a…

We are thrilled to learn that Sheilagh Ogilvie, Chichele Professor of Economic History, has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship The Leverhulme Trust from 2024 to 2027 on ‘Serfdom and Economic Development, c. 1000-1861’. leverhulme.ac.uk/listings?field…

…and to Rober Merges, who receives the Feinstein Prize for Best MPhil Dissertation. His work investigates parishes in Gloucestershire to explore the course of deindustrialisation and the effects of the Old Poor Law over the long 18th century. #econhist #twitterstorian

Congratulations to Jem Ruf and Yunyufei Luo Yunyufei Luo for winning this year’s Thirsk Prize for best MSc and MPhil dissertation!