Welcome
This is a year of change for the department. In Spring we will move from Clare Market to new offices in Sardinia House, and in July we will say goodbye to Professor Max Schulze as Head of Department as Professor Albrecht Ritschl steps in to hold the post for the next three years.
On Thursday May 14 2015 we’ll be holding an Alumni Drinks Reception. Invitations have been sent out but if you would like to find out more or rsvp please email us at eh.alumni@lse.ac.uk| or visit the event’s Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/LSEeconomichistoryalumni|
Recent arrivals
Professor Joan Roses joined us in 2013, having taught previously at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid between1998-2013. His research interests include modern and contemporary economic history with special emphasis in historical economic geography, long-run economic growth, well-being and policy issues. Current research projects include the historical economic geography of Europe in the 19th-20th centuries; factor markets in Spain: labour, land and real estate and the regional consequences of external shocks.
Dr Neil Cummins also joined the department. He is an alumnus of the LSE Economic History Department. His previous post was at Queens College, City University of New York. Dr Cummins says of his research: ‘I work at the intersection of ‘big data’ and economic history. Most of my research projects involve exploiting recently digitized historical genealogical data to answer questions about the origin of modern economic and demographic behaviour.’
Prizes, awards and other news
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In 2014 Professor Janet Hunter was honoured by the Japanese government in recognition of her contribution to the development of UK-Japan relations. She was awarded with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. For more information:
http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/japanUK/decoration/1404.html
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PhD student Judy Stephenson won a New Researcher Prize at the EHS annual conference at Warwick in March 2014, for her paper "Gilboy Revisited: Or low(er) wages and the pre industrial London building craftsman".
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PhD student Nuno Palma was awarded Best Paper at the 13th Annual Globalisation and Economic Policy Postgraduate Conference, University of Nottingham. Nuno said, "This was an economics conference in which I was the only economic historian. I did not expect to win, and in fact I only learned there was a prize when I saw the programme a few days before. There were presentations from people from some of the best departments of economics in Europe, and the overall quality was very high. [...] I am glad to be in a department which encourages research students to pursue their own interests, and I owe this victory to the unique and very stimulating environment we have here".
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Nuno also won first prize at the Charles Street Symposium 2014 of the Legatum Institute. The theme for 2014 was: "Why Do Societies Prosper?" The Charles Street Symposium brings together young researchers to address issues of relevance to public policy inadequately addressed and understood in existing research. The judges were Victoria Bateman (University of Cambridge), Tim Besley (LSE), and Emma Duncan (Deputy Editor, The Economist).
Select recent publications
Books
Professor Steven Broadberry
British Economic Growth, 1270–1870
Authors: Stephen Broadberry, Bruce Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, Bas van Leeuwen
A new account of Britain’s economic evolution from medieval backwater to global economy. The authors reconstruct Britain’s national accounts for the first time right back into the thirteenth century showing what really happened quantitatively from the middle ages up until the Industrial Revolution.
Articles
Professor Joan Roses (with Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Daniel A. Tirado), ‘The long-term patterns of regional income inequality in Spain (1860-2000),’ Regional Studies.
(with Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Daniel A. Tirado), ‘The long-term patterns of regional income inequality in Spain (1860-2000),’ Regional Studies.
(with Kerstin Enflo) ‘Coping with Regional Inequality in Sweden:
Structural Change, Migrations and Policy, 1860-2000,’ Economic History Review.
(With Juan Carmona and Markus Lampe) ‘Spanish Housing Markets, 1904-1934: New Evidence,’ Revista de Historia Económica/Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economics
Dr Kent Deng
Recent publications include ‘A Survey of Recent Research in Chinese Economic History’, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Surveys, 2014; ‘Myth of Ethnic Conflict and Ethnic Revolutions, 1644 to 1911’, forthcoming, Asian Ethnicity, 2014; ‘Imperial China under the Song and Qing’, in A. Monson and W. Scheidel , eds, Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States (CUP, 2014). Kent has also appeared on TV and radio commenting on issues such as Sino -European economic relationship, Chinese leadership, spending reforms banking and economic performance.
R ecent publications include ‘A Survey of Recent Research in Chinese Economic History’, forthcoming, Journal of Economic Surveys, 2014; ‘Myth of Ethnic Conflict and Ethnic Revolutions, 1644 to 1911’, forthcoming, Asian Ethnicity, 2014; ‘Imperial China under the Song and Qing’, in A. Monson and W. Scheidel , eds, Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States (CUP, 2014). Kent has also appeared on TV and radio commenting on issues such as Sino -European economic relationship, Chinese leadership, spending reforms banking and economic performance.
Research Projects