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[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

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: https://t.co/JpOlYBCNAt

[VoxEU @voxeu]

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
https://t.co/Wu58tAlNbE

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

Don't miss out on this exciting event tonight 🌎📦

[Departamento de Historia y Geografía | Uniandes @histgeouniandes]

🌍 History in Dialogue: Trade and Inequality in Africa and Latin America

Join us for a conversation on global history, trade and inequality.

Una conversación sobre historia global, comercio y desigualdad.

📅 20 de octubre
💻 Zoom
🕛 12 p.m. 🇨🇴 | 1 p.m. 🇨🇱 | 5 p.m. 🇬🇧

[Tim Leunig @timleunig]

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...

[STICERD @STICERD_LSE]

Congratulations to @tomraster @LSEEcHist
who has been awarded a #STICERDgrant for the project: Contagious coercion: Labour scarcity, plagues and serfdom in the Baltics
https://t.co/NwX00zBj55

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

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
https://t.co/3zvIUhKdw3

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

📖 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.
https://t.co/6z6V6ke3eF
#lseevents #history #echist

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

🗺️ @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 👇

https://t.co/cu5kWaoDgr

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

📖 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.
https://t.co/6z6V6ke3eF
#lseevents #history #echist

[STICERD @STICERD_LSE]

Don't miss today at 6pm our #AtkinsonLecture on the economic history of #caringlabour by Jane Humphries @LSEEcHist
https://t.co/qxSF1JZlIp

[Jordan Claridge @jordanclaridge]

Call For Papers!

Are you working on economic history in the preindustrial period? Please submit a proposal for our conference, held jointly at the London School of Economics and King's College London in November!

Deadline March 31st!

#econhist #medieval

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

🌱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 🎙️
https://t.co/n7anNS94lj

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

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 https://t.co/jJlBFzqO6W.

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

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 🏭 https://t.co/CSQjjYN619

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

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 🏭 https://t.co/CSQjjYN619

[Marco Cokic @CokicMarco]

📜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 🧵

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

What has our department been up to in 2025 🗺️📈? Check it out here:
https://t.co/7Jmev4JWLq
#lse #echist

[LSE Middle East @LSEMiddleEast]

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: https://t.co/9t2zDHxH9K

[Economic History Review @EcHistSocReview]

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
https://t.co/rhKzVLLOmq

[LSE Department of Economic History @LSEEcHist]

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 📜🔎