The theme is "In time and space", so we welcome contributions on spatiotemporal themes, but we are open to anything Political Economy and Economic History. Apply by sending an extended abstract (ca. 1,000 words) or draft to econ-ehpe-workshop@york.ac.uk

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.

There is no workshop fee and refreshments and meals will be provided.

Confirmed attendees:
Ferdinand Rauch (St. Gallen) and Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Please submit the title of the paper, along with either a full paper or an extended abstract (approximately 1,000 words), to econ-ehpe-workshop@york.ac.uk by 15 April 2026.

We welcome paper presentations on all aspects of political economy and economic history. Preference will be given to papers that engage with the conference theme and explore the spatio-temporal dynamics of economic inequality.

The Department of Economics at the University of York is pleased to invite submissions for the 2nd Workshop in Political Economy and Economic History, which will take place Wednesday 10 to Thursday 11 June 2026 in York. The theme of the workshop is: "In time and space"

Finally in print in the JEH: Nikolaus Wolf and I study the Congress of Vienna as a natural experiment that changed European borders and may have left Prussia with the geography that would unify the German Empire. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Time for Growth (Forthcoming Article) - This paper investigates the adoption, diffusion, and long-run impact of the public mechanical clock, one of the most important high-technology machines in history, on European ...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Time for Growth" by Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Wie die Briten aus Versehen Deutschland vereinigten Handelsströme sind ein Werkzeug der Geopolitik. Das spielte schon bei der Entstehung des Deutschen Reichs eine Rolle.

Handelsströme sind ein Werkzeug der Geopolitik. Das spielte schon bei der Entstehung des Deutschen Reichs eine Rolle. Neue Forschung von @thilohuning.bsky.social und Nikolaus Wolf

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work.

🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25
💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month

🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program

Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Thank you for the amazing podcast episode and for featuring @thilohuning.bsky.social and my research on the role of wine growing for long-run regional development in Baden-Württemberg (academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...) in the episode!

Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg Abstract. Historical winegrowing shaped modern rural development, even in areas in which its cultivation was given up after the early modern period. We pro

New Publication

Can Winegrowing Cause Rural Development? Evidence from Baden-Württemberg

By F. Wahl (@wahlfabi.bsky.social) and T. H. Huning (@thilohuning.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

Some wine grapes

Can winegrowing cause rural development? @wahlfabi.bsky.social and I have just published our little piece on this in the European Historical Economics Review! academic.oup.com/ereh/advance... #econhist #economics #history

JMP by Yannis Kastis with @hillaryvipond.bsky.social

It's both an immigration paper & an adoption-of-technology paper. I didn’t know this: immigration of Jewish tailors from the Pale was very important in the rise of mass garment production in Victorian England
jkastis.github.io/yanniskastis...

Raising a child from birth to 18 in UK now costs more than £200,000 – here's why Childcare now constitutes around 60% of the overall cost of raising a child in the UK.

@isahuning.bsky.social and I have written a short piece on the cost of raising a child: theconversation.com/raising-a-ch...

Virtual issue of JEH in honour of Claudia Goldin:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...