Big day for LSE and Economic History! Philippe Aghion (LSE Econ), Peter Howitt and Economic Historian Joel Mokyr were awarded this year's Sverige Riksbank (Nobel) Prize. On top of that, our recent PhD graduate (2024)
@juliuskoschnick.bsky.social has been cited in the scientific statement 🥳

Incredible turnout and an exciting presentation at @patrickwallis.bsky.social book launch on #apprenticeship🤩📘. Thank you for joining us in person and online #econhist #lse #education #LSEEvents

Our PhD students are ready for the EHS annual conference in Glasgow this weekend! 💪📷 #EconomicHistory #EHS2025 #Strathclyde #PosterSession

@lseechist.bsky.social's Andrés Irarrázaval presented his paper "The Historical Fabric of Inequality in the Global South: Property, Markets, or Redistribution?" in our department's graduate seminar this week.
#inequality #globalinequality #economichistory

We had the honor of welcoming Michela Giorcelli (@michelag.bsky.social) for our annual Epstein Lecture today. Her lecture explored a period of exceptionally high productivity growth in history—World War II—and the role played by the spread of management practices.
#EconomicHistory

Today @patrickwallis.bsky.social presented on "How apprenticeship helped transform premodern England" in the LSE Research Showcase.
Drawing on his new book, The Market for Skill, he described how apprenticeship helped transform England from a backwards economy & laid foundations for the first IR.

Today LSE's own Noah Sutter (@noahsutter.bsky.social) presented his paper "A Testament to Revolution - New Data on Wealth at Death and Wealth Elasticity Estimates for France, 1791-1870" in our graduate seminar.

LSE's Eoin Dignam (@eoin2319.bsky.social) is presenting on "Heterogeneous Impacts of Climate Conditions in Spain" between 1904 and 1934 in our graduate seminar. 🧑‍🌾🌞

We were deeply saddened to learn that Eddie Hunt, long-time MSc Programmes Director within the Department, passed away recently. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.

@juliuskoschnick.bsky.social is presenting in our seminar series on "The Complementarity of Education and Skills in Early Industrial England". Julius, @patrickwallis.bsky.social, and Alexandra de Pleijt revise the traditional view that education and British industralisation were disconnected.

Our PhD student @marco-cokic.bsky.social is presenting in the SPEECH seminar on trade of Central and Eastern European countries during the Cold War.
For the countries of the former Eastern bloc, trade did not lead to specialisation. Instead the different economies became more similar over time.

Michele Zampa is presenting his paper on the dual strategy of the "Cassa per il Mezzogiorno" in our graduate seminar. He finds that the Cassa's private firms' funding had significant effects on industrial development. Infrastructural funding, however, had no significant effects.

Today's Graduate Economic History Seminar: Michele Bolla is presenting on "Divergence beyond GDP and real wages: An Anglo-Italian occupational comparison, 1400-1600".

Our Economic History seminar series is starting again after winter break!

Andrea Papadia (@andrea-papadia.bsky.social) is currently presenting on "The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration". 🇧🇷📈🧑‍🌾

@neubertmagnus.bsky.social presented his new paper with Stefan Nikolic, examining the economic effects of railways in #Bosnia during #Habsburg rule. Their findings challenge the idea that #railways always bring prosperity, highlighting the role of local conditions. 🚂 #lse #econhist #economics

How can economic historians transform historical documents into structured data? In a series of workshops, Aurelius Noble introduces participants to novel methods of automatic transcription, including handwritten text recognition.

The first lecture took place today. Two workshops will follow...