Gregori Galofré-Vilà
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Gregori Galofré-Vilà
@gregorigv.bsky.social
I work at the intersection of political economy and economic history. I listen Superchunk and Don Caballero.
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🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past. When? June 12-13, 2025. Where? València (Spain). Keynotes: Luigi Pascali and Bruno Caprettini #EconSky #Econhist
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Joel Mokyr at Nick Crafts 70th birthday conference in 2019 at @cagewarwick.bsky.social @warwickecon.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Nobel laureate Professor Joel Mokyr drew on Peter Laslett, Jack Goody & the European marriage pattern to ground his new vision for “The Great Reversal and the Industrial Revolution”, a plenary address to the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference, December 10 2024 at Hong Kong Univ www.cqh.hku.hk
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ❤️
"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...
LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks
YouTube video by Reuters
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October 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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How exceptional was Italy’s inequality path in the interwar years? What was the role of wars, depression, and authoritarianism?🚨 Our new paper w/ @ggabbuti.bsky.social explores these questions.
Full article here 👇https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498325000622?via%3Dihub
August 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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@gregorigv.bsky.social & @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social use natural language processing and network analysis of economic history articles to identify a shift towards a more global, data-driven, and methodologically advanced field.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
July 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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🧵Economic History Transformed: What 25 Years of Data Reveal

1/ No longer just descriptive stats & British factories. It’s global, data-driven, and methodologically bold field. We analysed 25 years of publications in 5 top journals using NLP and network analysis.

Here’s what we found 👇

@voxeu.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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📢 #InnovacióDocent amb impacte per als estudiants d’ #ADE!

💡 L’article a #REIRE mostra una activitat amb #Excel per fomentar la motivació i l’anàlisi crítica.

👉 doi.org/10.1344/reir...

✍️ G. Galofré-Vilà i M. Gómez-León

#EducacióSuperior #UniversitatDeValència #CompetènciesDigitals
July 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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New WP 📄 out!
Writing it with @gregorigv.bsky.social was super fun and thought-provoking. Thrilled with the final result.
Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Link below 👇
June 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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The workshop at @ehvalencia.bsky.social has started with Bruno Caprettini > "Where have all the workers gone? The contribution of labor to the Industrial Revolution" #past #history #technology #change @jvoth.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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June 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Great to be back home!
What an outstanding workshop hosted by María Gómez León and @gregorigv.bsky.social at the University of Valencia. I had the pleasure of connecting with some truly brilliant and incredibly welcoming researchers.
June 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past. When? June 12-13, 2025. Where? València (Spain). Keynotes: Luigi Pascali and Bruno Caprettini #EconSky #Econhist
September 4, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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Just released. New WP on product quality and trade liberalization in France, 1850-1874. The economy was producing high quality items throughout, but liberalization decreased avg. quality but some main exports went up in quality.
www.nber.org/papers/w33902
The French Touch: Product Quality and France’s Great Trade Liberalization, 1850-1874
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
June 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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La historia económica importa, vaya si importa. Buena entrada en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social sobre temas, redes y autores (como siempre, fantásticos los enlaces).
nadaesgratis.es/admin/es-el-...
¿Es el pasado útil para la economía? Cómo, dónde y qué se investiga en historia económica
Por Gregori Galofré-Vila (Universitat de València) y Víctor M. Gómez-Blanco (CUNEF Universidad) ¿Es el pasado útil para la economía? En 1976, Deirdre McCloskey planteó esta pregunta y respondió con u...
nadaesgratis.es
June 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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After 10 years of doing research in Historical Political Economy, this fall I’ll finally get a chance to teach a survey course on the field & I’m really looking forward to it! 😊

I thought this would be an opportunity to create a syllabus with many essential contributions to this growing field.
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“la historia económica, como cualquier disciplina, no es neutra. Su evolución, sus métodos y su institucionalización afectan directamente a las narrativas que construimos sobre el pasado. Y esas narrativas, a su vez, influyen en cómo pensamos los problemas actuales”
June 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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🧵 ¿Sirve la historia económica para entender el presente? Sí, y cada vez más.
@gregorigv.bsky.social y yo analizamos 25 años de publicaciones en las top-5 del campo usando análisis de redes y NLP.
Descubre lo que revela el análisis en este post de @nadaesgratis.bsky.social
¿Es el pasado útil para la economía? Cómo, dónde y qué se investiga en historia económica
Por Gregori Galofré-Vila (Universitat de València) y Víctor M. Gómez-Blanco (CUNEF Universidad) ¿Es el pasado útil para la economía? En 1976, Deirdre McCloskey planteó esta pregunta y respondió con u...
nadaesgratis.es
June 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Esta investigación publicada en #REIRE identifica factores que afectan el rendimiento académico y la calidad de la educación básica y secundaria.
✒️ Miguel-Ángel Caro-Rivas, UMECIT (Panamá) (2025)
doi.org/10.1344/reir...
May 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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@jvoth.bsky.social studied the factors that contribute most to a fulfilled life and his research shows that there is nothing better for a contented life than work.

Learn more → www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even...

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March 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Thanks to Donald Boudreaux for his review of my book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850". www.independent.org/publications...
Book Review | Book Review: One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850, by Christopher M. Meissner
Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux | The title of Christopher Meissner’s book on globalization is brilliantly appropriate: One From the Many. It’s a deliberate reference to the Latin phrase familiar to...
www.independent.org
March 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM