Economic History Seminars 2021-22

In 2021-22 seminars will be either be online or in person, depending on the speaker.

Time: 4-5.30pm UK time

Venue for in person seminars: KSW G.01 (20 Kingsway)

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Summer Term 2022

12 May - in person

• Gabriel Mesevage (KCL)
• Market Microstructure and Market Failure on the 19th Century London Stock Exchange

19 May - in person

• Brian Varian (Newcastle)

• 'Preferential Access to the Canadian Market under the 1897 Fielding Tariff: British Exports to Canada, 1892-1903 

26 May - in person

• Deirdre McCloskey (UIC)
• The Idea of Liberalism, not Exploitation or Investment or Institutions or the Enlightenment, caused the Great Enrichment.

9 June - in person

• Stéphanie Collet (Bundesbank)
• How do Stocks Respond to Inflation? Lessons from the German Hyperinflation

16 June - in person

• Brian A’Hearn (Oxford)
• Mobility of the Innocents. Foundlings and social mobility in Italy since 1800.

Lent Term 2022

20 January - online seminar

• Laura Channing (IHR) 
• "So that they might tax themselves": Urban taxpayers and local government in Freetown, 1890s - 1930s.

27 January - online seminar

• Albrecht Ritschl (LSE)
• Hjalmar Schacht’s Mefo Bills, 1933-39: A Case for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)?

3 February

• No seminar 

Feb 10

• No seminar

17 February

• Richard Franke (Bayreuth) 
• “Reversing Fortunes of German Regions: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?”

Feb 24 - Reading Week

• No Seminar

3 March

• Daniel Gallardo Albarran (Wageningen)
• Seasonal mortality and its drivers in Germany, ca. 1890-1910

10 March - Epstein Lecture (Online Public Event)

Pre-registration is required beforehand as this is a public event. You can register via the event webpage. Registration opens 10am, 17 February.

• Philipp Ager (Mannheim)
• The Effects of Immigration Restrictions on the Economy

17 March

• Alexander Nützenadel (Humboldt) 
• The long shadow of 1931: Legacies of financial regulation in transnational perspective

24 March

• Roger Fouquet (LSE Grantham Institute)
• Net Domestic Consumer Surplus (1700-2017)

31 March

• Alejandra Irigoin (LSE)
• China inside out: explaining silver flows (or the multilateral payments system) in the UK-Asia triangular trade 1820s-1870s