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Economic History Seminars 2023-24

Spring Term 2024

Seminars are in KSW G.01 from 4-5.30pm unless otherwise indicated.

 

2 May  

  • Martin Ellison (Oxford)
  • The Ends of 27 Big Depressions

9 May 

  • TBC
  • TBC

16 May

  • Oliver Volckart (LSE)
  • The silver empire: how Germany created its first common currency 

23 May

  •  Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)
  • The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets 

30 May

  • Martin Fiszbein (Boston University)
  • The Confederate Diaspora

6 June

  • Kirsten Wandschneider (University of Vienna)

  • Currency Wars and Monetary Regime Disintegration  

13 June

  • Kim Oosterlinck (Universite Libre de Bruxellles)
  • Domino secessions: Evidence from the US

 

Autumn Term 2023

 

28 September

  • Nuno Palma (Manchester)

  • Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution (with coauthors Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, and Jonathan Chapman)

5 October

  • Felix Kersting
  • Industrialization, Returns, Inequality (with Thilo Albers and Timo Stieglitz)

12 October

  • Mattias Doepke (LSE)
  • The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws

19 October

  • Jordi Domènech Feliu (Carlos III, Madrid)

  • Land reform and voting in interwar Europe: evidence from Spain before civil war

26 October - Public event, co-hosted by the Economic History Academic Board

  • Professor Martin Daunton
  • The economic government of the world, 1933-2023
  • 6.30pm-8pm
  • Old Theatre, LSE and online

2 November

No seminar - reading week

 

9 November

  • Christopher M Meissner (UC Davis)
  • Trade Policy and Productivity: Evidence from US Industries, 1870-1900

16 November - Inaugural lecture

23 November - Public Lecture

30 November

  • François Gipouloux (Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales)
  • The impossible advent of capitalism in late imperial China, 16th-19th century.

7 December

  • Saumitra Jha (Stanford)
  • Revolutionary Contagion

Winter Term 2024

18 January

  • Giovanni Federico (New York University)
  • Why did the population double from 1800 to 1938? 

25 January

  • Ahmet Akarli (LSE)
  • Long term income growth and convergence trends in Emerging Market

1 February

  • No seminar

8 February

  • Deborah Boucoyannis (George Washington University)
  • Kings as Judges: The Role of Justice in Institutional Development and Some Implications for Economic History.

15 February

  • Pierre-Etienne Will (College de France)
  • Politics and Engineering in Northwest China, 1912-1937

22 February

Reading Week - no seminar

 

29 February

  • Oliver Bush (LSE)
  • Fiscal Policy Objectives and the Great Inflation in Britain

7 March

  • Epstein Lecture 

14 March

  • Melanie Xue (LSE)
  • British Industrialization and Cultural Change: Evidence from the Use of Proverbs 

 

21 March

  • Lionel Kesztenbaum
  • Wealth and the rise of wage earners. A brief history of personal and social wealth in France, 1825-1960

28 March

  • John Tang (Utrecht)
  • Superstition, fertility, and modernization: evidence from Japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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