On February 28, 2025, Utrecht University will host a
#FRESH meeting on Empire and Economic Development
Keynote lecture by Tirthanker Roy (LSE)
Local organizers: Maanik Nath and John Tang
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📢 On June 24-25, 2024, UCLouvain will host a #FRESH workshop on: “Institutions, human capital, and long-term development: lessons from pre-modern Europe”
Keynote lectures by Joel Mokyr and Nico Voigtländer
Local organizers: David de la Croix and Paula Gobbi
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On May 5-6, 2026, Humboldt University will host a
#FRESH meeting on The causes and consequences of social conflict
Keynote lecture by Mohamed Saleh (LSE)
Local organizer: Felix Kersting
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Sandra de Pleijt
Sandra de Pleijt
Sandra de Pleijt
🆕 Higher education and the roots of Southeast Asia’s economic miracle
Today on VoxDev, Alexandra de Pleijt (@w-u-r.bsky.social) & Ewout Frankema discuss the role of higher education in Southeast Asia's long-run development: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Higher education played a key role in Southeast Asia’s long-run development—much earlier than most policy accounts and research suggest.
On the 18th and 19th of June 2026, the Public University of Navarre (Spain) will host a #FRESH meeting on "Energy, Sustainability, and Economic History"
Keynote lecture by Henry Willebald
Local organizer: Cristián Ducoing
More details below:
I’m happy to announce that my JMP🚨🚨Teacher-directed change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution” is now out as a working paper. Finalising the draft has been a lot of work. So, very happy to share this. For lots of history, new micro-data &natural experiments, read on ->->->
Our paper with @fcinnio.bsky.social @hornungerik.bsky.social “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print
@theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨
In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->
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Julius Koschnick
Julius Koschnick
Julius Koschnick
New paper alert 🚨 🚨
Education and Skills during the First Industrial Revolution in England
Together with co-authors @sdepleijt.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social, we set out to solve one of the most intriguing puzzles of the Industrial Revolution
