It draws on a weekly publication of public finance statistics, allowing the roles of monetary policy, taxation, and public spending to be assessed. It shows that monetary and fiscal policy shocks contributed to variation in prices and unemployment, playing a central role in two great recessions.
06.08.2025 15:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Now on Early View: 'Macroeconomic policymaking in interwar Britain: A reappraisal'.
By David Ronicle.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
06.08.2025 15:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
ehs.org.uk/the-centre-f...
06.08.2025 13:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Now on the Long Run Blog: 'The Centre for South-East European Economic History β Summer School in Quantitative Economic History'.
This post describes the inaugural summer school held by the Centre between 9 and 11 July 2025 at the University of Zagreb, which was supported by the EHS.
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Deadline Thursday!
The deadline for this round of applications for the EHS Bursary Scheme for PhD Students is 31 July.
One-year bursaries of up to Β£5,000 are available, primarily aimed at supporting students without full external funding to continue their studies.
More info & to apply:
29.07.2025 10:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Failure by design? Contesting the use of failure in historical research'.
Paula GonzΓ‘lez Fons (European University Institute) outlines her paper about the use of failure in historical research, based on a paper recently presented at the 2025 Annual Conference of the EHS.
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Annual Conference - Economic History Society
The EHS Annual Conference 2022 will be held at Robinson College, Cambridge, 1 β 3 April 2022.Β We hope to hold the conference in person. Directions to Robinson College. Β Thank you for your submission...
The call for papers, sessions and posters for the 2026 EHS Conference is now open!
The conference will be held at the Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) building, London School of Economics, 10 β 12 April.
Paper proposals must be received by 15 September 2025, poster proposals by 17 November.
ehs.org.uk/conference/
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This article examines the distributive effects of personal income taxation in Sweden, the UK, and the US during the first half of the 20th century. It shows that redistribution through income taxation increased during the period with varying intensity and mechanisms.
21.07.2025 12:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Now on Early View: 'Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century'.
By Sara Torregrosa-Hetland & Oriol SabatΓ©.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
21.07.2025 12:32 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Bursary Scheme for PhD Students - Economic History Society
The Economic History Society invites applications for one-year bursaries of up to Β£5,000 to assist doctoral students (PhD) in United Kingdom colleges and universities; scholars who are visiting studen...
The deadline for this round of applications for the EHS Bursary Scheme for PhD Students is 31 July.
One-year bursaries of up to Β£5,000 are available, primarily aimed at supporting students without full external funding to continue their studies.
More info & to apply:
ehs.org.uk/award/bursar...
21.07.2025 08:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Delivering Better Maternal Healthcare? An Examination of Black Hospital Obstetrics Care across the Mid-Twentieth Century'.
Matthew Purcell (LSE) describes how a research grant for graduate students from the Economic History Society has helped his doctoral research.
17.07.2025 15:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Post-war American technological transfers to Britain and Italy - Economic History Society
In this blog post William Ciptonugroho of the University of Cambridge introduces his recent research on the Marshall Plan, which was financially supported by a grant awarded by the Economic History So...
Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Post-war American technological transfers to Britain and Italy'.
William Ciptonugroho (Cambridge) introduces his recent research on the Marshall Plan, which was financially supported by the Economic History Society through its Research Fund for Graduate Students.
16.07.2025 15:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Agrarian roots of capitalism in England, c. 1550-1850 - Economic History Society
In this blog, Joshua Rhodes of Durham University describes his research on the agrarian roots of capitalism in the early-modern period, which was financially supported by the Economic History Societyβ...
Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Agrarian roots of capitalism in England, c. 1550-1850'.
Joshua Rhodes (Durham) describes his research on the agrarian roots of capitalism in the early-modern period, which was financially supported by the EHS' Carnevali Small Research Grants
ehs.org.uk/agrarian-roo...
10.07.2025 12:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Early Modern Capitalism: Trade, Risk and Profit'.
Maxine Berg (Warwick) sets out the themes of a one-day workshop of the History of Capitalism Project held at Brasenose College, Oxford, in April 2024 on some of the parameters and practices of early modern capitalism.
07.07.2025 15:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Employing village-level data from the Ottoman tax registers of 1468/1604, this article finds that settlements with lower income per household were more likely to convert. It hypothesizes the poll tax stimulated the poorer Bosnians to adopt Islam upon the Ottoman conquest of their region.
04.07.2025 15:18 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Now on the Long Run Blog:
'Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934'.
Georgia Davison of the University of Cambridge writes about how the Economic History Societyβs Research Fund for Graduate Students helped her fund trips to the archives for her MPhil dissertation.
02.07.2025 08:20 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
This article argues that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once a war is over.
01.07.2025 08:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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Economic history - Preindustrial inequality - Early modern Holland - Unrelated near-dangerous music obsession
Economic and social historian of the early modern world, innovation, industrialisation and all things cotton. Assistant Prof at UCL History. Chair of the Womenβs Committee of the Economic History Society.
Economist and economic historian. Directeur de Recherche, CNRS and Professor of Economics, Sciences Po, Paris.
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