Research group in economic history & comparative development at the Univ. of Manchester. Unravelling the big questions of history. Led by N. Palma & Y. Kumon.
The University of Manchester
Joined September 2022
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Nuno Palma: “Os fundos europeus tornam Portugal num país de pedintes”
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Why, across history, have great civilisations tumbled? How do we prevent our own civilisation suffering the same fate? & what do women have to do with it? Thanks to @ArthurLewisLab @OfficialUoM for making my Hajnal Prize Lecture available online youtube.com/watch?v=CSQe9P_U… #Economica
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Founding and directing the @ArthurLewisLab, initially with the help of @gguillaumeblanc, then @YuzuruKumon, meant a lot to me.
This is the current core team. Yesterday we had the last seminar of the 2025-26 academic year.
I look forward to UF but it's a bittersweet move for sure!
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An exciting day at #QuarryBankMill after being awarded the #HajnalPrize in Economic History @officialuom, which consists of a special piece of (framed) cloth woven at the Mill. Big thanks to staff & volunteers @ntquarrybank @nationaltrust & to economic historians @ArthurLewisLab.
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𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐥: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐧𝐝
Check out my new book with CUP, already available for preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookseller👇
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In preindustrial Japan, the widespread distribution of land among peasants led to lower wages and GDP per capita than in England, says @YuzuruKumon of @OfficialUoM. #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/equality…
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My W. Arthur Lewis Lab lecture on "International Currencies in the Lens of History" youtube.com/watch?v=d8VJMYqf…
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The Arthur Lewis Lab (November 13-14 2025):
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It will be a huge honour to deliver the 2026 #HajnalLecture @ArthurLewisLab at the University of Manchester. It will also be something of a homecoming: Manchester was not only the place I grew up, it shaped my love of Economic History. #Manchester #EconHist
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀᴏꜱꜱ ᴏꜰ ɢᴏʟᴅ: ʙʀᴀᴢɪʟɪᴀɴ ᴛʀᴇᴀꜱᴜʀᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴄʟɪɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴘᴏʀᴛᴜɢᴀʟ, with @dkedrosky
18th-century Brazilian gold caused a resource curse in Portugal, hurting industry & institutions
Now out in the 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
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I just passed my viva!! PhDone :) Thanks a lot to my amazing reviewers @gguillaumeblanc @jpfaguet and Akos Valentinyi!! Of course, a big thanks to my supervisor @nunopgpalma
So happy!!
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Congratulations Dr. Gachet! 🥳
I just passed my viva!! PhDone :) Thanks a lot to my amazing reviewers @gguillaumeblanc @jpfaguet and Akos Valentinyi!! Of course, a big thanks to my supervisor @nunopgpalma
So happy!!
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Simon Johnson @baselinescene is now giving The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture at @OfficialUoM: "Technology and Global Inequality in the Age of AI" 👇🏼
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Who is looking forward to this book?
𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚’𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙡: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙤𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙙
More news soon...👇
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A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. @OxfordESH @ArthurLewisLab @LeverhulmeTrust #echist
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20214
Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution
Tim Besley @LSEEcon, Dan Bogart @UCIrvine, Jonathan Chapman @Unibo, @nunopgpalma
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#CEPR_DE #CEPR_EH #CEPR_MG #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE #EconTwitter
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Jason Lennard (LSE) is now presenting his paper “Cheap Money and the End of the Great Depression”, with Paul Bouscasse (Sciences Po), James Cloyne (UC Davis), and Kilian Kamkar (Cambridge) 👇🏼 – at Manchester, England
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📚 Hajnal lecture 2025
Mark Koyama @MarkKoyama is now presenting "The Origins of Constitutional Government"👇🏼
The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development retweeted
📚 Hajnal lecture 2025
Mark Koyama @MarkKoyama is now presenting "The Origins of Constitutional Government"👇🏼