Michiel de Haas

Uses and abuses of the Murdock Atlas in social science research

CALL FOR PAPERS
A workshop at LSE next April on 'Uses and Abuses of the Murdock Atlas in Social Science Research'. We're looking for cross-disciplinary engagement to think critically about what this widely used source means, what it can & can't tell us. Submit by Nov 14
www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...

New working paper from me & some colleagues on East Africa's maize markets from c. 1900 to today, based on a major data collection effort to fill in the long-run history of food prices in one of the world's poorest regions: www.aehnetwork.org/working-pape...

CFP: Workshop on Health Transitions in the Global South

CFP Deadline 3 February 2025

Workshop 9-10 June 2025 at LSE

Organised by myself and Neil Cummins

Sponsored by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group

It is definitely [fill out random Wiley journal recently cited by recipient] good

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library Limited knowledge of African historical inequality trajectories hampers our understanding of inequality outcomes today and leads to a major omission in debates about global inequality. Economies in c...

Here's a link: doi.org/10.1111/ehr....

It's very good.

Do read my article.

(*Of course I'm doing some subtle product placement here myself)

Just arrived in my inbox: academic publisher spam taken to the next level... Did I sign up for this?

I'm still conflicted about migrating to this platform. I don't think it's a healthy development that social media are now also politicized & polarized. But the fact is that X has become a cesspool & professionally worthless. So let's give this a try. I'll keep my X account on the back burner.