🚨 #PhD Applications #EconTwitter🚨 We are accepting expressions of interest for our Econ PhD DSE UniBo Economics phd.unibo.it/economics/en/a… 📆 Deadline: Feb 14, 2025 🎓 Scholarships: 5 for any Econ, 1 in Law and Econ 📑 Requirements: CV, transcripts, SoP, English & references

Happy to say my new book, “Controlling Contagion”, comes out next month. 700 years of tackling pandemics. Not all bad news… press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Why did coal, having been used in Britain for centuries, very suddenly take off in London in 1580-1600? I dove deep into the archives, unearthing a story *never* told before. It was thanks to German inventors, and through brewing, that coal really won. ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inven…

Join us with The Nobel Prize laureate Daron Acemoglu and Joachim Voth to discuss the far-reaching consequences of AI, automation, and political institutions on economic progress. Subscribe now on YouTube or Spotify and start exploring the ideas shaping our world.

I have announced "Origins of Colonialism" in a previous post. This short work (or long article) is now available to read and download for free until 27 March cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Origins of Colonialism - free download period extended to 17 April.

Did you eat butter this Easter? Was it Lurpak? 🧈 New publication in Business History. It naturally leads to a little reflection I would like to share with you. And it also leads to a small corner of economic history that needs reinterpretation🧵

Join the The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development as a predoc for 2 years! The ad is now available! 👇🏼 Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org

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Vincent Delabastita, SpikeGibbs and I have a new working paper out! We explore the dynamics of wage inequality in medieval England, which allows us to better understand the commercialization of labour markets in the Middle Ages. lse.ac.uk/Economic-Histo…

REMINDER The New Economic History of Brazil conference, organized w/ Guilherme Lambais Deadline to send us a proposal: May 26, 2025 To be held at the Lusíada University of Lisbon on September 12, 2025 Opening session: Cláudio Haddad Keynote speaker: Bill Summerhill (UCLA) To apply, see👇

Got tired of waiting around for somebody (anybody!) to get around to translating Yang Kuan's classic history of the Warring States era, so finally just did it myself. I will soon post a link to the preface and first chapter (Introduction) if anyone is interested, below.

‘Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics’ will be published on 4 June from OUP USA. Appears in rest of the world in September. Offers a new reading of the economic history of arid and semi-arid regions of the world, mainly in Asia and Africa.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea,” by Nathan Lane (Nathan Lane): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

I have a predoc opening! This position will involve working with historical U.S. local newspaper data to understand Americans' varied perspectives on key issues across a century. Applicants can upload materials here (the listing describes a different project - sorry, I was

RIP Peter Temin. ☹️😢😭 The famous quote about the likes of him, etc. Cue Chopin Marche funèbre.

Aspiring researchers: come work at Chicago Booth! I'm hiring pre-doctoral fellows along with a group of Booth colleagues and our co-authors at other institutions. Positions start summer 2026. Application: chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facult… First deadline: September 8

My latest post! On England's centuries of maximum wages (yes, you read that right), and how they led to a Lost Century of stagnant growth and a dwindling population, while the rest of Europe forged ahead. ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inven…

Workshop announcement! Send us your best papers or abstract if you want to present/discuss with others interested in HISTORY LLMs -- large language models trained or fine-tuned for historical contexts. Elliott Ash Anjali Adukia 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧

This week’s review! — Jessica Goldberg on Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean. A book which leaves Avner Greif’s thesis in the same place as the French fleet in 1798: lying at the bottom of the Nile.* unevenandcombinedthoughts.substack.com/p/postmen-and-…