Only one week left to propose a paper for the joint economic history-Indigenous economics meeting August 21-23 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Send 1-2 page extended abstract to David Rosé (darose@wlu.ca) & Rob Gillezeau (rob.gillezeau@rotman.utoronto.ca) by February 27!
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It was a real pleasure to have Paul Richard Sharp among the EEBL - MSc European Economy & Business Law - University of Rome Tor Vergata students for the presentation of the new edition of his book "An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Welfare, Prehistory to the Present"
🎄🎄✨ Dear Readers, Authors, Referees ... Dear All! — Thank you for your contributions throughout 2025! It has been a challenging but very rewarding year for the Rivista! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026! 🎄🎄✨
Delighted for Joel Mokyr’s Nobel! A preeminent voice in economic history and an inspiration. We had the honour to host him as the keynote at the 6th ASE meeting on incentives, institutions & industrialization.
Here is the article on the Rivista! 👇
www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1410/...
10th ASE annual meeting - Venice
Photo of Menton, a town on the border between France and Italy © Adobe Stock, Freesurf
River Dunajec in the Pieniny Mountains on the border of Slovakia and Poland © Adobe Stock, Laura
Douro river with Saucelle Dam on the border between Spain and Portugal © Adobe Stock, anetlanda
View over steep slopes at the Ischgl/Samnaun ski resort on the Swiss-Austrian border © Adobe Stock, Leonid Tit
More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom.
In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed.
This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.
14 May 2025 - The one and only Alessandro Nuvolari, shedding light on the origins of the British Industrial Revolution for my European Economic History students at the University of Rome Tor Vergata
Forthcoming, with minor edits, in the Journal of Economic History
www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazion...
📣📣 Ths special issue on Colonial Legacy in South Asia, guest edited by Tirthankar Roy and Maanik Nath, is now online!
🔗 www.rivisteweb.it/issn/0393-34...
#SouthAsia #ColonialLegacy #EconomicHistory #DevelopmentStudies #HealthHistory #LegalHistory #NewPublication
doi.org/10.1016/j.ee...
Our results question the robustness of the current theoretical consensus on the “little divergence” and suggest an alternative hypothesis: north-western Europe saw faster Smithian growth than the rest of Europe after 1500."
...little moments of academic bliss...
"..Thank you for submitting your manuscript to Explorations in Economic History. I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication"
"Smithian growth in the little divergence: a general equilibrium analysis" (with D. Chilosi)
..the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Spain and Sweden, with Groth and Persson’s (2016) general equilibrium model.
Abstract (1/3) "To address growing concerns on the representativeness of real wages, we generate new estimates of GDP pc in pre-industrial England and Italy, as well as new exploratory estimates for Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, ...
New advanced article:
The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach
By G. Barone, D. Chilosi, C. Ciccarelli (@carciccar.bsky.social) and G. de Blasio.
doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
Well done Rome.
This event about “publicly defending Europe” was, by the way, ignited by an op-ed of Michele Serra, an established journalist of Repubblica. Healthy journalism matters.
Don't think it was Zelenskyy who was humiliated yesterday. Humiliation is something you can do to yourself. Don't think it was Ukraine that was humiliated either.
www.ft.com/content/6755...
Who will be the first to write the history of that short-lived period that began in 1989 and ended in 2025? So much hope and opportunity, so much short-sighted and incompetent leadership on all sides, and such an ugly, tragic ending.
ITALY: ....Our findings suggest that over the 50 years following the birth of the unified state, neither area drew generalized benefits from unification.....
academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...
DEF Tor Vergata Rome - Sant'Anna Pisa
"2024 Rome Workshop on Transport and History - Pushing the Frontiers of Data, Measurement, and Outcomes"
December 19, 20 - 2024 Tor Vergata Rome
economia.uniroma2.it/cal/2381/202...
Special issue EREH - Deadline 1 March 2025
academic.oup.com/ereh/pages/p...
Dan Bogart "Global Transport History" next Mon 2-5PM, Tue 10AM-1PM, Wed 2-5PM. A course for our PhD students at Rome Tor Vergata. Email me to get the link and follow online.
The UniCredit Foundation (unicreditgroup.eu) has just launched new contests for research grants:
The effects of Italy’s unification on its dual development: a synthetic control approach data.mendeley.com/datasets/hky... - European Review of Economic History
