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Gregori Galofré-Vilà
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I work at the intersection of political economy and economic history. I listen Superchunk.
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Gregori Galofré-Vilà @gregorigv.bsky.social · Sep 4
🚨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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ericbschneider.bsky.social
Join us for the London Universities Population Seminar on 28 October at noon UK time at LSE. Prof Karen Glaser (Kings) will present 'Changes in mental and physical health among adults aged 50 – 69 in England: Implications for economic inactivity'. The seminar will be in-person and online.
October 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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pantras.bsky.social
This was a fun and very informative event, at least for me. You can watch it in its entirety here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G-F...

My presentation starts at around minute 13.

Thanks again to the organizers for the kind invitation!
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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aaronreeves.bsky.social
If you know someone who is thinking about doing a PhD and who is interested in health then please share this advert with them. It is an ESRC funded PhD working on trade unions and health as part of a collaboration with me and the @tuc.org.uk @lsesociology.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Trades Union Congress
www.lse.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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essobecker.bsky.social
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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kris-inwood.bsky.social
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
Nobel laureate Professor Joel Mokyr speaking at the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference, December 10 2024, hosted by Hong Kong University's Centre for Quantitative History www.cqh.hku.hk
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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essobecker.bsky.social
"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ❤️
alexanderwulfers.com Alexander Wulfers @alexanderwulfers.com · Oct 13
"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
www.youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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benmschneider.bsky.social
Én uke igjen!
benmschneider.bsky.social Ben Schneider @benmschneider.bsky.social · Sep 4
Call for Papers:

4th Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games ❄️ in Economic History

📍 NTNU Trondheim
📅 29 January 2026

📄 CfP Deadline: 19 October

Vi forventer noen berømte gjester fra Byåsen IL 👀

#econhist #EconSky #skystorians
Call for Papers 4th Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History NTNU Trondheim 29 January 2026 The Norwegian Economic History Association (NØHF) invites submissions for the fourth Winter Games in Economic History, to be held at NTNU Trondheim, on 29 January 2026. We have retained the popular low threshold workshop format for the Winter Games. The aim is to bring together scholars as well as PhD and master level students to help each other to develop new research ideas and paper drafts for publication. We therefore welcome submissions of two kinds: i) paper drafts and ii) outlines of future research projects. Although discussants will be assigned to each paper or research idea, all participants are expected to read colleagues’ papers and contribute to discussions. The Winter Games will continue to be a broad arena. We apply a broad understanding of economic history and welcome submissions from business history and other, neighbouring fields (i.e. historical political economy, social history, labour history, historical demography, history of economic thought, etc.). Contributions from master students and junior researchers are as valuable as those from established scholars. “Norwegian” is understood in a most liberal way, i.e., scholars either based in Norway or working on a topic related to it, independent of nationality. We also welcome contributions from other Scandinavian countries. Moreover, as a low threshold arena, papers in all stages of preparation are welcome, from your roughest draft to highly polished gems. Please send a short abstract (up to 300 words) for consideration to: norwegianeconhist@gmail.com Please specify whether your contribution will be a draft paper (i) or the outline of a future research project (ii). Deadline for submission of abstracts: 19 October Notification of successful applicants: 1 November Deadline for submission of papers: 18 January 2026
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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javiermejiac.bsky.social
🌍 New episode of the EPH Podcast!

I talked with Kimberly Bowes about the Roman economy.

How was the life of the 90% in Antiquity?

🎧 Listen or watch:

▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/gBB0YQjTfec?...

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4g6a...

🍎 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
October 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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ubscenter.uzh.ch
“What we consider normal today – rising incomes, technological advancement, and improved living standards – is, in historical terms, an anomaly.” – @jvoth.bsky.social, UBS Foundation Professor of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets

Learn more → www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even...
August 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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mgzl.bsky.social
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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ehvalencia.bsky.social
New @ehvalencia.bsky.social @mgzl.bsky.social paper (with @ggabbuti.bsky.social ) More here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #past #history #inequality #fascism #Italy
Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1901-1950
This paper presents yearly estimates of income inequality in Italy from 1900 to 1950. By constructing dynamic social tables (DSTs), we comprehensively…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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voxeu.org
@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
Chart showing the methodological evolution of economic history. The share of qualitative studies has drastically decreased since 2000 and quantitative studies using panel data and causal analysis have increased. Economic history is increasingly able to provide us with evidence and inform pressing questions at the intersection of research and real-world decision-making. This column uses natural language processing and network analysis of articles from five leading journals over the past 25 years to identify a shift towards a more global, data-driven, and methodologically advanced field. It maps changing thematic priorities, institutional collaborations, and author networks, highlighting both a generational turnover and growing geographical diversity. It also reveals a strong move towards causal identification-based econometrics alongside a sharp decline in qualitative research, signalling both convergence and trade-offs in the discipline’s integration with mainstream economics.
July 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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victormgomezblanco.bsky.social
🧵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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ehvalencia.bsky.social
"Network and language analysis of economic history" (by
@gregorigv.bsky.social and @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social) cepr.org/voxeu/column... via @cepr_org
#past #history #economics #change #econhis
Network and language analysis of economic history
Economic history is increasingly able to provide us with evidence and inform pressing questions at the intersection of research and real-world decision-making. This column uses natural language processing and network analysis of articles from five leading journals over the past 25 years to identify a shift towards a more global, data-driven, and methodologically advanced field. It maps changing thematic priorities, institutional collaborations, and author networks, highlighting both a generational turnover and growing geographical diversity. It also reveals a strong move towards causal identification-based econometrics alongside a sharp decline in qualitative research, signalling both convergence and trade-offs in the discipline’s integration with mainstream economics.
cepr.org
July 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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reire-ub.bsky.social
📢 #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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victormgomezblanco.bsky.social
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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ehvalencia.bsky.social
New working paper @ehvalencia.bsky.social (by @gregorigv.bsky.social and Víctor M. Gómez-Blanco) More info 👉 www.ehvalencia.es/wp-content/u... #econhis #economics #history #publications
www.ehvalencia.es
June 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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gregorigv.bsky.social
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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gregorigv.bsky.social
And David Jacks with "Suez" #past #history #trade #technology #change #economics #econhis #shipping @chris-meissner.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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victormgomezblanco.bsky.social
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.
ehvalencia.bsky.social EH-Valencia @ehvalencia.bsky.social · Jun 9
📣 Coming soon 👉 Workshop on Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past at @ehvalencia.bsky.social via @gregorigv.bsky.social
#past #present #history #change #development #technology
June 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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gregorigv.bsky.social
🚨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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chris-meissner.bsky.social
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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jhdezbarral.bsky.social
La historia económica importa, vaya si importa. Buena entrada en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social sobre temas, redes y autores (como siempre, fantásticos los enlaces).
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¿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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janvogler.bsky.social
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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nadaesgratis.bsky.social
¿Es el pasado útil para la economía? Cómo, dónde y qué se investiga en historia económica nadaesgratis.es/admin/es-el-... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
¿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 5:02 AM