Stephan R. Epstein
Title and contact details
Professor of Economic History
Room C415
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7046
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7730
s.r.epstein@lse.ac.uk
Research interests
Medieval and early modern economic and social history; history of technology; state formation and economic development.
Current research projects
- Industrial organisation and technological development in Europe, 1300-1750
- The political economy of European grain markets, 1250-1800
Current teaching
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EH205 Towns, Society and Economy in England and Europe, 1450-1750
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EH301 Origins of the World Economy
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EH482 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West Compared, 1000-1800
Selected publications
- An island for itself. Economic development and social transformation in late medieval Sicily, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press; revised Italian ed.: Potere e mercati in Sicilia. Secoli XIII-XVI, Einaudi, Turin, 1996.
- Freedom and growth. Markets and states in Europe, 1300-1750, London, Routledge, 2000.
- Town and country in Europe, 1300-1800, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- ''Italy', in T.Scott ed. The peasantries of Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, London, 1998, pp.75-110.
- 'Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in pre-modern Europe', The journal of economic history, 53 (1998)
- 'The rise and decline of Italian city-states', in M.H. Hansen, ed. City-state cultures in world history, Copenhagen, 2000
Publications
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Media bits
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LSE Magazine, Summer 2002: 'History matters: lessons from the marketplace' (PDF)
Working Papers
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