Reminder: Apply for our workshop on Political Economy and Economic History by April 30th. It's on 10th and 11th June, there is no workshop fee.

What Is a Revolution? | Dan Edelstein and Javier Mejia on the History of Revolutionary Thought YouTube video by Javier Mejia

New episode of the EPH Podcast

I talk with Dan Edelstein about how the meaning of “revolution” has changed over time—from something ancient thinkers feared to something embraced as progress.

🎧 Listen:

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Kevin O’Rourke, experto en comercio mundial: “Europa debe dejar de comportarse como si fuera impotente” El historiador económico e investigador del francés CNRS cree que la Unión Europea debe actuar como un bloque con autonomía política y estratégica ante el nuevo ciclo de fragmentación global. Advierte...

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Fantastic work! and platform to visualize things 👏👏👏

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Why do many WASH interventions have limited effects on child stunting?

Our historical data suggest something surprising:

Sanitation infrastructure alone often wasn’t enough, even in the past.

New BMJ Global Health paper 👇

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In our new paper (BMJ Global Health), we systematically collected 923 historical growth studies covering 122 countries from 1814–2016.

By harmonising height-by-age data, we reconstruct stunting patterns over two centuries.

Link: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...

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What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years?

Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life.

It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood.

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Abstract of working paper

A new WP discusses methodological issues that arise in the study of inequality using social tables, an approach commonly employed for estimating income distributions in societies where neither income surveys nor tax data are available.
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Stone Center Working Paper Series - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality yes

The paper, which focuses on 19th century estimates, proposes a set of "rules" or a broadly common methodology to enable better comparability of the results. Read the paper by @brankomilan.bsky.social, @philerfurth.bsky.social, @mgzl.bsky.social, & @ggabbuti.bsky.social.

Joel Mokyr at Nick Crafts 70th birthday conference in 2019 at @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social

Nobel laureate Professor Joel Mokyr speaking at the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference, December 10 2024, hosted by Hong Kong University's Centre for Quantitative History www.cqh.hku.hk

Nobel laureate Professor Joel Mokyr drew on Peter Laslett, Jack Goody & the European marriage pattern to ground his new vision for “The Great Reversal and the Industrial Revolution”, a plenary address to the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference, December 10 2024 at Hong Kong Univ www.cqh.hku.hk

"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ❤️

How exceptional was Italy’s inequality path in the interwar years? What was the role of wars, depression, and authoritarianism?🚨 Our new paper w/ @ggabbuti.bsky.social explores these questions.
Full article here 👇www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001...

Chart showing the methodological evolution of economic history. The share of qualitative studies has drastically decreased since 2000 and quantitative studies using panel data and causal analysis have increased. Economic history is increasingly able to provide us with evidence and inform pressing questions at the intersection of research and real-world decision-making. This column uses natural language processing and network analysis of articles from five leading journals over the past 25 years to identify a shift towards a more global, data-driven, and methodologically advanced field. It maps changing thematic priorities, institutional collaborations, and author networks, highlighting both a generational turnover and growing geographical diversity. It also reveals a strong move towards causal identification-based econometrics alongside a sharp decline in qualitative research, signalling both convergence and trade-offs in the discipline’s integration with mainstream economics.

@gregorigv.bsky.social & @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social use natural language processing and network analysis of economic history articles to identify a shift towards a more global, data-driven, and methodologically advanced field.
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#EconSky

🧵Economic History Transformed: What 25 Years of Data Reveal

1/ No longer just descriptive stats & British factories. It’s global, data-driven, and methodologically bold field. We analysed 25 years of publications in 5 top journals using NLP and network analysis.

Here’s what we found 👇

@voxeu.org

📢 #InnovacióDocent amb impacte per als estudiants d’ #ADE!

💡 L’article a #REIRE mostra una activitat amb #Excel per fomentar la motivació i l’anàlisi crítica.

👉 doi.org/10.1344/reir...

✍️ G. Galofré-Vilà i M. Gómez-León

#EducacióSuperior #UniversitatDeValència #CompetènciesDigitals

New WP 📄 out!
Writing it with @gregorigv.bsky.social was super fun and thought-provoking. Thrilled with the final result.
Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Link below 👇

@victormgomezblanco.bsky.social

The workshop at @ehvalencia.bsky.social has started with Bruno Caprettini > "Where have all the workers gone? The contribution of labor to the Industrial Revolution" #past #history #technology #change @jvoth.bsky.social

And David Jacks with "Suez" #past #history #trade #technology #change #economics #econhis #shipping @chris-meissner.bsky.social

Great to be back home!
What an outstanding workshop hosted by María Gómez León and @gregorigv.bsky.social at the University of Valencia. I had the pleasure of connecting with some truly brilliant and incredibly welcoming researchers.

And our last presenter @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social talked on "Long-term dynamics of market integration in Spain: Liberalization, protectionism, and the impact of railways (1725-1905)" #past #history #protectionism #railways #change

In the afternoon
Jordi Caum discussed his work on "Railways and mortality in colonial India (1877-1912)" #past #history #mortality #railways #development #change

And finally
@gregorigv.bsky.social presented his work on "Sail to Steam" #past #history #change #transport #maritime #technology

Then, Paul Lowood talked about "Railways and economic geography in Bavaria" #past #history #Bavaria #change #transport #railways #development #population

What a day 😀In the morning @RuzzanteMatteo
presented his work on "The origins of the nitrogen revolution" #past #history #agriculture #change #land #development #economics

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past. When? June 12-13, 2025. Where? València (Spain). Keynotes: Luigi Pascali and Bruno Caprettini #EconSky #Econhist