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We are delighted to announce that our alumna @Miatsf (PhD Economic History) was appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. Congratulations! 🥳
Find out more here: gov.uk/government/people/mia…
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Covered interest parity deviations and financial market frictions: Six decades of evidence
Olivier Accominotti @LSEEcHist, Jason Cen @KingsCollegeLon, David Chambers @Cambridge_Uni, Victor Degorce @Princeton
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Don't miss out on this exciting event tonight 🌎📦
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Job news - I am off to the @UKHouseofLords to join @EdwardJDavey's team of peers. I look forward to working hard to hold the government to account...
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Congratulations to @tomraster @LSEEcHist
who has been awarded a #STICERDgrant for the project: Contagious coercion: Labour scarcity, plagues and serfdom in the Baltics
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Join us for this year's Epstein Lecture, where we host some of the most exciting economic history research! This year's edition features @gobbi_paula, who discusses how inheritance patterns change economies and societies 💰👨👩👧👦
#lseevents #echist
lse.ac.uk/events/development…
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📖 How did modern #Capitalism emerge and how has it evolved over the centuries? 🪙 Join us and @RMilibandLSE this Wednesday as @Sven_Beckert explores these big questions through his latest book.
lse.ac.uk/events/capitalism-…
#lseevents #history #echist
🗺️ @msaleh1982 and @RoyHistory1 are featured in this month's LSE Research for the World, about a project they undertook with Leigh Gardner to develop tools for teaching about colonialism in UK schools 🏫
Read the article here 👇
lse.ac.uk/research/research-…
📖 How did modern #Capitalism emerge and how has it evolved over the centuries? 🪙 Join us and @RMilibandLSE this Wednesday as @Sven_Beckert explores these big questions through his latest book.
lse.ac.uk/events/capitalism-…
#lseevents #history #echist
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Don't miss today at 6pm our #AtkinsonLecture on the economic history of #caringlabour by Jane Humphries @LSEEcHist
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🌱Do global environmental improvements require “de-growth?” Are a robust economy and a healthy environment inherently at odds? Our speaker, Spencer Banzhaf, will disscuss the relationship between our economy and nature on Thursday 🎙️
lse.ac.uk/economic-history/e…
We are excited to have Jane Humphries as our speaker on Wednesday, discussing how we should approach caring labour as an integral part of economic activity ⚕️
#lse #echist #caring sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/event….
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What makes innovation possible?🧪And what we can learn from Joel Mokyr's work? Join us on this exciting, @NobelPrize themed roundtable with @SdePleijt, Alessandro Nuvolari and @phwallis, moderated by Joan Roses, on the Industrial Revolution 🏭 lse.ac.uk/economic-history/e…
What makes innovation possible?🧪And what we can learn from Joel Mokyr's work? Join us on this exciting, @NobelPrize themed roundtable with @SdePleijt, Alessandro Nuvolari and @phwallis, moderated by Joan Roses, on the Industrial Revolution 🏭 lse.ac.uk/economic-history/e…
LSE Department of Economic History retweeted
📜New working paper: Why did Socialist countries join an explicitly Capitalist trade treaty and how did it impact them? Between 1966 and 1973, four Eastern bloc countries acceded to the GATT. Using a gravity model, I estimate the impact of this historical curiosity. 1/3 🧵
What has our department been up to in 2025 🗺️📈? Check it out here:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichist…
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Thanks to all who joined us and @LSEEcHist for the launch of Professor Malika Zeghal's latest book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East.
Missed the event? Watch the full discussion here: youtube.com/watch?v=keMkAhuw…
LSE Department of Economic History retweeted
Now on Early View: 'The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages'.
By Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita & Spike Gibbs.
@jordanclaridge @V_Delabastita @GibbsSpike @LSEEcHist @Radboud_Uni @kingshistory
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This week @NickArtFitz, class teacher on the course "Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa", took his students on a field trip to see the Cambridge Cairo Genizah collection - famous from Greif's paper on The Maghribi Traders' Coalition - and the @FitzMuseum_UK 📜🔎
