Edward Kerby

Economist . Historian . Researching African financial and economic history @StellenboschUni. Principal Researcher: @TimeTravelData and @Front_Finance

[Edward Kerby @Edkerby]

@BrownMarubozu @BarRed321 Possibly ex-div?

[Time Traveller @TimeTravelData]

📢Calling all Text-as-Data researchers ⭐️CfP Text-as-Data session: Narratives, Culture and Perceptions💥World Economic History Congress,📍Lund 2025. CfP deadline⏰16th Nov '24⌛️. @ellliottt @phinifa @essobecker

[Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past @LEAP_SU]

⭐ Thanks to the African Economic History Network and Sapienza University of Rome for inviting our LEAP team to #AEHN2024! Engaging with top academics on Africa's rich economic history was a fantastic experience. ⭐

[Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past @LEAP_SU]

@MoradiAlexander presenting research from the @TimeTravelData project titled “Narratives from European-African Encounters” at AEHN 2024

#AEHN #LEAP

[Alessandro De Cola @ale_decola]

@KarinPallaver and @coetzeelauren presenting the preliminary results of our project (with @MoradiAlexander @Edkerby and @UbuntR314) @AfEconHis meeting in Rome.
"Currency areas in modern precolonial Africa: New insights from traveller accounts"

[Munashe Chideya @munashechideya]

Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD thesis! Huge thanks to my supervisors @JohanFourieZA and @Edkerby, committee, colleagues @LEAP_SU, friends, and family for their support. What a great learning experience – I wouldn't trade it for anything. Excited for what lies ahead.

[Economic History Review @EcHistSocReview]

Now on Early View:
'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?'
By Edward Kerby, Alexander Monradi and Hanjo Odendaal. @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 @StellenboschUni @LEAP_SU @unibz_news @BERcoza
https://t.co/9TLrztftVF

[Time Traveller @TimeTravelData]

@EcHistSocReview @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 @StellenboschUni @LEAP_SU @unibz_news @BERcoza @MoradiAlexander, @UbuntR314 and @edkerby are really having fun working on this project.

[Edward Kerby @Edkerby]

@mininghistory @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 Great question @mininghistory. All the production and development data resides on cloud servers with the usual backup/protections. We're working toward a more interactive website (funding pending), but the real analytical action sits here https://t.co/3NyDsOI2jx. No risk of rot.

[Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past @LEAP_SU]

Looking back at LEAP's Frontiers of Finance this Friday:

Maphosa, L. M., Ehlers, A., Fourie, J., & Kerby, E. M. (2021). The growth and diversity of the Cape private capital market, 1892–1902. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36(2), 149–174. https://t.co/fEKB5p0I11

[OOIR @ObserveIR]

Trending in #History:
https://t.co/ySro5zQfg6

1) UN Tour Guides, Gender & Public Diplomacy, 1952–77 (@shafrdh)

2) The Fall of Constantinople & the New Political Dynamic in the Holy Roman Empire, 1453–67

3) Competitiveness, Civilizationism & the Anglosphere (@MIHJournal)

4) African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? (@echistsocreview)

5) The Salvation Army, Eberhard Arnold & the Bruderhof

[Time Traveller @TimeTravelData]

Come see @alexmoradi present a new paper on “Narratives from European-African Encounters (1400 - 1900)” at the @EcHistSoc. A 🧵 on this fascinating, ground-breaking research.

[Time Traveller @TimeTravelData]

For comparison, how about an Econ textbook? Even @DAcemogluMIT has highs and lows to his micro textbook. Its starts wells and ends badly. The dismal science hits a low with market failure homework.

[Time Traveller @TimeTravelData]

Can narrative arcs detect good stories from factual accounts? Exhibit 1: Adams (top) never travelled, while Livingstone (bottom) traversed the continent. Things were really bumpy for Livingstone with highs and lows of exploration in 1850. Adams had it too easy.

[Time Traveller @TimeTravelData]

The Time Travellers are at the 2nd Bolzano Historical Economics Workshop @unibz_news, presenting Rimorfacta. Are Travellers to Africa (1500 - 1900) writing about facts or making up fiction?

[Luigi Pascali @PascaliLuigi]

@MoradiAlexander @JCBuggle @mara_squi @carciccar @Edkerby @UbuntR314 Can't wait to be there!

[Time Traveller @TimeTravelData]

Rimorfacta = systematic #data from travellers in Africa (1500 - 1900). This data can answer important #economics questions about precolonial #agriculture, #slavetrade, gunpowder & violence, and #technology. @MoradiAlexander presenting this exciting new paper at the @AfEconHis.

[frontiers of finance @front_finance]

If you're interested in learning more about Munashe's work, be sure to attend his presentation on Saturday, May 27th, 2023, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, during Session 7C: Empire, in Ariane 3.
Conference Programme link: https://t.co/kK7kpdBsA0

[Edward Kerby @Edkerby]

@ceph_ie @lloydmelusi @QUBManagement @QUCEHBelfast Very proud of @lloydmelusi and his new role at @ceph_ie. Lloyd is a skilled scholar and all of us at @front_finance look forward to a new frontier opening at @QUCEHBelfast

[African Economic History Network (AEHN) @AfEconHis]

📕🌍New AEHN Working Paper No. 72 by @beckerbastian & @FelixMzS1 :
Women on a Mission: Protestant Legacies of Gender Equality in Africa?

Studying: (i) mission denominational effects, (ii) role of female missionaries on long-term women's educ + agency.
👇🏿
https://t.co/ETKyFTX1fn