🎉 Happy Birthday Kevin O’Rourke! Irish-born economic historian whose research helps us understand major events like famines and long-term economic change.

#EconHistory #KevinORourke #EconomicHistory #StudyingEconomics #GlobalHistory

Coming up in spring 2026!

'The Business of War in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region, 1530–1765' explores the development of the fiscal-military networks and #military markets over three centuries. The book will be freely available in #openaccess.

#militaryhistory #economichistory #earlymodern

More Money for More People | eBook

This eBook unpacks the deeper drivers behind wealth inequality and why real change has remained rare.

Learn the pattern. Understand the system.

👉 Access the free eBook: realestate.propertysharemarketeconomics.com/more-money-f...

#wealthinequality #economichistory

#1 Best Seller in #EconHist - thank you to everyone who has bought, borrowed, recommended & reviewed #Economica. I am enormously grateful for your support and very much look forward to the forthcoming lectures, talks, events & discussions. #econhis #economichistory

Joseph Lomas Towers, 'The Expediency and Practicability of the Resumption of Cash-Payments by the Bank of England; or, Thoughts on the Present Serious State of the Circulating Medium of the Kingdom (London, 1811)

#EconomicHistory #Romanticism

Cover of "Kindai Nihon no sangyō to seikatsu: Nishi Owari chiiki kara no sōgō-chi" edited by Nishizawa Yasuhiko and Nakanishi Satoru.

Now #reading: 西澤泰彦、中西聡編『近代日本の産業と生活：西尾張地域からの総合知』（日本経済評論社、2026年）
This book includes a chapter by my colleague Hattori Ayumi.
#history #skystorians #AcademicSky #EconomicHistory #Japan #Aichi #歴史 #歴史学 #経済史 #日本 #愛知県

Benjamin Smart, 'A Letter Addressed to The Honourable the House of Commons, on the Necessity of an Immediate Attention to the State of the British Coinage; in which a New, Prompt, and Efficacious Remedy for its Defects is Proposed' (London, 1811)

#EconomicHistory #Romanticism

A moment from tonight's Atkinson Lecture Q&A, with Jane Humphries in conversation with Camille Landais, reflecting on her research and its implications for how we understand work, care, and economic history. sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/... #EconomicHistory

Mercator, ‘Considerations on the Present State of Bank Notes, Specie, and Bullion; in a Series of Letters, Addressed to The Right Honourable –––––––––––’ (London, 1811)

#EconomicHistory #Romanticism

War and Inflation in the Medieval Economy Explore how medieval warfare caused price shocks through resource shortages, warhorse costs, siege economies, and bullion scarcity.

⚔️ Inflation isn’t just a modern phenomenon.

Medieval wars disrupted farms, trade, and labor, sending prices climbing across entire regions.

The economic ripple effects of conflict have a much longer history than many people realize.

#MedievalHistory #EconomicHistory #Brewminate

"The First Cotton Gin," an engraving from Harper's Magazine, 1869. This carving depicts a roller gin being used by African slaves, which preceded Eli Whitney's invention

A machine designed to solve a problem in agriculture helped drive economic growth, expand cotton cultivation, and deepen one of the most troubling institutions in American history.

Follow the page for more daily history!

#OnThisDay #EliWhitney #CottonGin #USHistory #EconomicHistory #Slavery

Was slavery just a Southern institution?

In our latest episode, Seth Rockman reveals how Northern industry helped supply the everyday goods that kept slavery running.

🎧 Discover the hidden economy: benfranklinsworld.com/422

#History #USHistory #Capitalism #EconomicHistory

The Alchemist of the End Times: Ray Dalio’s Warning on the Silicon Cannibal and the Great Debt Heart Attack As the billionaire architect of Bridgewater maps the "Big Cycle" toward a historically rare convergence of crises, he is betting on gold, civility, and a desperate hope that human agency can outrun th...

Ray Dalio isn’t just warning about debt. He’s mapping a convergence.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/alchem...

#RayDalio #BigCycle #AI #AIEconomy #DebtCrisis #Geopolitics #Gold #Democracy #Governance #HumanAgency #FutureOfAI #Macroeconomics #EconomicHistory #LinkedInCreators #ThoughtLeadership

🎉 Happy Birthday, Deirdre McCloskey! An economist, historian, and public thinker who transformed how we understand markets, innovation, and the role of ideas in economic growth.

#EconomicsForEveryone #DeirdreMcCloskey #WomenInEconomics #EconomicHistory #StudyEconomics

🥜groundnuts powered 🇬🇲Gambia’s economy, covering nearly 45% of farmland and driving 🚢exports. The crop shaped trade, rural livelihoods, and national identity, earning the country its historic reputation as a “groundnut economy.”

#Gambia #Groundnuts #AfricanEconomy #AgriTrade #EconomicHistory

Historians, do you have a preferred resource for digital access to historical newspapers? I have library access to a limited version of ProQuest, but it is missing a lot #history #econhist #economichistory #socialhistory

𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆
𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮
Edited by Nathanael Andrade and Rubina Raja

Info: bit.ly/4b5GewJ

#Labour #EconomicHistory #Classics #Antiquity #SocialHistory #ClassicalStudies

In 1937, the ICC said freight cars weren’t rolling billboards.

Today, they’re rolling canvases.

What changed wasn’t aesthetics. It was economics.

A look at how deregulation and efficiency reshaped the rails.

Link in thread.

#Railroads #Infrastructure #EconomicHistory #UrbanArt

Wall Street’s Soul-Searching Moment
#FinancialCrisis #WallStreet #GoldmanSachs #EconomicHistory

🛠️ The 1985 miners’ strike ended after a year of industrial dispute, reshaping jobs, industries, and how governments interact with the economy. Economics isn’t just numbers — it’s about people, work, and choices that shape our world! 💡🇬🇧

#OnThisDay #UKEconomy #EconomicHistory

Claudia Goldin to Receive Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

“We commend her fearlessness, leadership, and commitment to understanding what is lost and what is gained for everyone when opportunities for women contract or expand.”
#econsky #academicsky #history #economichistory
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Sears didn’t die in a single dramatic moment.

It faded — manager by manager, floor by floor.

I worked there in 2015–16. The store looked active right up until it wasn’t.

New Roots & Main Street: The Slow Death of Sears

Link in Threads.

#Sears #RetailHistory #EconomicHistory #RootsAndMainStreet

"Tinkering the Tariff": Uncovering Tariff Debates in Historical Newspapers, Imprints, and Government Documents | Readex Tariff: "a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports" per Oxford Languages. It seems simple on the surface. It has never been. A simple search using Readex AllSearch and limited to "tariff" in the Citation field, yields 12,340 results*. Where to begin?

"Tinkering the Tariff": Uncovering Tariff Debates in Historical Newspapers, Imprints, and Government Documents https://ow.ly/4gpl50YkZOb

#EarlyAmerica #EconomicHistory #USHistory #AmericanHistory

Every time a headquarters moves, the panic starts.

But Oklahoma City has never been a one-company town.

Kerr-McGee. Halliburton. Sinclair. Chesapeake.

Companies leave. Cities stay.

Link in thread.

#OklahomaCity #OklahomaHistory #UrbanHistory #EconomicHistory #EnergyIndustry #RootsAndMainStreet

The book also shows how economic priorities shaped the path toward abolition, revealing how inequality was preserved through systems of power and profit. It provides a deeper understanding of the forces behind major historical change. #Inequality #EconomicHistory #MustRead

Disentangling the relationship between economic theorising and the reality of markets

On 27 February, 15:00 CET, join a workshop with Gerardo Serra 👉 loom.ly/tLYB-ro

Organised by our Economic History and Ideas Working Group 👉 loom.ly/TqwPvr4

📣 #EconomicHistory #FinancialHistory

How was the international order shaped in the 1930s' economic discourse?

Read Sabine Selchow's 🔓 #OpenAccess @ecointeui.bsky.social working paper on a suggestive League of Nations memo layering different technocratic approaches 👉 loom.ly/-m-bGoM

📚 #FridayReads #EconomicHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

We're looking forward to today's Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture, given by Prof. Kevin O'Rourke of @scpo-research.bsky.social

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@tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
#econsky #NSRP #EconomicHistory

Enclosure and the Collapse of the Peasant Farm How enclosure, trade shocks, and state policy dismantled peasant farming in early modern Europe and reshaped survival itself.

Capitalism didn’t start with smokestacks. It started with fences. 🌾

Enclosure turned shared land into private property. Peasants lost access. Market farming expanded. Rural society fractured.

When ownership changes, everything changes.

#EarlyModern #EconomicHistory #Brewminate

Tariff Escalation: From Smoot-Hawley to Trump How 1930s tariff wars hardened economic blocs and why renewed escalation under Trump risks realignment without the United States.

Tariffs rose. Retaliation followed. Global trade shrank.

Protection felt decisive in the 1930s, but escalation deepened the downturn.

Economic nationalism carries structural costs. 📉🌍

#EconomicHistory #Trade #Brewminate