From convergence to divergence: Portuguese demography and economic growth,...
by Nuno Palma (University of Groningen) and Jaime Reis (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) When did Portugal’s economy diverge from the European core? This paper constructs the first time-series for...
View ArticleFrance’s Nineteenth Century Wine Crisis: the impact on crime rates
The phylloxera crisis in nineteenth century France destroyed 40% of the country’s vineyards, devastating local economies. According to research by Vincent Bignon, Eve Caroli, and Roberto Galbiati,...
View ArticleLegacies of inequality: the case of Brazil
by Evan Wigton-Jones (University of California, Riverside) Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in issues of economic inequality. This research offers a contribution to this discussion by...
View ArticleCameralism in Practice. State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe
On Marten Seppel, Keith Tribe (eds.) Cameralism in Practice. State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe, Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge 2017 (ISBN 978 1 78327 212 9) There has been a...
View ArticleEFFECTS OF COAL-BASED AIR POLLUTION ON MORTALITY RATES: New evidence from...
Industrialised cities in mid-nineteenth century Britain probably suffered from similar levels of air pollution as urban centres in China and India do today. What’s more, the damage to health caused by...
View ArticleMedieval origins of Spain’s economic geography
The frontier of medieval warfare between Christian and Muslim armies in southern Spain provides a surprisingly powerful explanation of current low-density settlement patterns in those regions. This is...
View ArticleLondon fog: a century of pollution and mortality, 1866-1965
by Walker Hanlon (UCLA) For more than a century, London struggled with some of the worst air pollution on earth. But how much did air pollution affect health in London? How did these effects change as...
View ArticleA century of wind power: why did it take so long to develop to utility scale?
by Mercedes Galíndez, University of Cambridge This blog is based on research funded by a bursary from the Economic History Society. More information here Marcellus Jacobs on a 2.5kW machine in the...
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