Research group in economic history & comparative development at the Univ. of Manchester. Unravelling the big questions of history.
Led by N. Palma & Y. Kumon.
Call for papers: “Frontiers of Comparative Development in Historical Perspective”
Conference to be held at the University of Manchester, Nov 13-14.
Keynote speaker: Barry Eichengreen (UC-Berkeley)
Deadline to send us a proposal: September 22, 2025
Application link & details👇
Nathan Sussman (GGI) “How Politics,Technology, Liquidity, and Credibility Shape Money”
His keynote at the Lewis Lab conference earlier this month is now on Youtube👇
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 https://t.co/9AzHFWf4Z0 #Economica
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!
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.
We had a keynote by Nathan Sussman (Geneva Graduate Institute), with the title "From Shells to Crypto: How Politics, Technology, Liquidity, and Credibility Shape Money" 👇🏼
After presentations by Matthias Morys, Rebecca Stuart, Max Harris, and Hiroki Shin, we have now moved to the policy session, where Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) is now presenting "Reserve management operations: how little has changed in 300 years" 👇🏼
Victoria Bateman @vnbateman is now presenting her Hajnal Lecture about Women and the Rise and Decline and Civilizations, related to her recent book, *Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power*!
We are filming it and will make it available in YouTube 👇🏼
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👇
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 https://t.co/EoeAW4kJUr
Michiel de Haas @MichieldeHaas (Wageningen) is now presenting "Export Expansion under Price Collapse: Commodity Exporters and the Great Depression, 1930–1938" 👇🏼