this important paper is now out with NBER
nber.org/papers/w32370

Our new special issue is in print: Histories of Australian Retailing.

Looking much forward to it! 😁 Thanks very much to the organizers of this fantastic initiative. 🙏

Now on Early View:
'How not to measure the standard of living: Male wages, non-market production and household income in nineteenth-century Europe'.
By Joyce Burnette. Wabash College
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

Checkout my latest article published on open access at Economic History Review . It analyzes the impact of trade liberalizations at the dawn of the First Globalization in trade patterns in East and Southeast Asia by means of a new database for the years 1795-1839 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

Read this great paper explaining how we got leisure time: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.20…
Read this and all the new papers in Social Science History! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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A land of sages: A legacy of former elites and current professorship in Vietnam

Free YSE-EHES graduate webinar by Luu Duc Toan Huynh (Luu Duc) Toan Huynh (@sbmqmul) May 2 17:00 CET
Chair: Ting Cheng (@hkbaptistu)

More information:
ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/cfp-econ…

Learn how colonial past shape our present through reproduction, institutionalization, and historical trajectories in Julian Go new article in Social Science History: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.20…
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In this terrific paper, Pablo Ortiz Barquero, Manuel Tomás González-Fernández, and Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez show that party institutionalization leads to electoral sustainabilty: doi.org/10.1017/ssh.20…
Read all the other articles too in the issue!

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Great book symposium organized by Zeke Baker in Social Science History doi.org/10.1017/ssh.20… on colonialism. Read this and the other great articles in the latest issue of the journal!

In this paper, I argue with two persons far smarter than I (I love Paul and Maja) that globalization could have started a full century earlier as the technological innovations of the 18th and early 19th would have been sufficient to generate the market integration observed by the…

🔊Join us for this week's webinar on April 25 at 4pm!
Cong Liu of Jinan University is going to deliver a talk on 'Going Native: Foreign Firms’ Responses to Domestic Boycotts', the paper that she worked with Shiyu Bo (Jinan) and Ting Chen (HKBU). Chang Sun (HKU Business School)…

Data infrastructure #Canada
Attractive new tool to map census data since 1951 @ edumaps.esri.ca/census/
New polygon files for historic census data @ hgiscanada.usask.ca/download
And the historical census microdata are coming soon thecanadianpeoples.com
#hgis #dataviz Zack Taylor

Budget 2024 announced an investment of over $2.6 Billion over 5 years to increase graduate student stipends and tri-council research grants. We are grateful to Minister François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 for his unwavering support for science in Canada.

Linked open data for cultural scholarship & memory is the focus of an exciting conference May 5-8 at the U of Ottawa. Great workshops & keynotes by Jennifer Wemigwans (UToronto) & Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (ANU).
Supported by lincsproject.ca
More info:
hsscommons.ca/en/groups/forw…

🎉Congratulations to our Associate Director Chicheng Ma Chicheng Ma, on the publication of his paper 'Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages' by The Journal of Economic History!
📖Take your first view: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
#classicism #moderngrowth …

Nominations close June 15 for a prize recognizing the best PhD thesis in Asia-Pacific econ history 2022-2023 (ex Aus & NZ topics).

economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

Finalists will be invited to present (hybrid) at the 2024 AHEC conference & publish a summary in onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/283215….

Webinar this Thursday! Magnus Neubert and the socialist experiment of Yugoslavia

CFP: the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference Dec 9-10 2024 at Hong Kong University. Keynotes by Sascha Becker & Joel Mokyr. Submit 3-5 page proposals or full papers by May 31. Acceptance by July 15.
cqh.hku.hk/ahec2024/
#AHEC2024 HKIHSS 香港人文社會研究所 Centre for Quantitative History Sascha O. Becker

📢 Join us for an intriguing webinar on April 11th at 4pm! 🌍

🎙️Title: War and the Origins of Chinese Civilization
🗣️Speaker: Zhiwu Chen, Chair Professor of Finance, HKU Business School
🔎Discussant: Frank Shui Chen, Professor of Economics, Fudan University

Discover the…