Gabriele Cappelli

Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Siena | Co-editor in Chief at the Industrial History Review: @rhi_ihr

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

📢1st PhD CFA at Siena - Programme in Economics of the Tuscan Universities - is out! Check it out below 👇
Deadline June 29, 2 pm CEST. Please RT / share!

[Gabriel Burdin @GabrielBurdin]

📢First call for applications to the PhD in Economics at the University of Siena (with University of Florence and Pisa).

🎓 6 fully funded scholarships

🗓 Deadline: June 29, 2026, 2:00 PM (CEST)

📍 Web: https://t.co/wcLLwpPkXv

📑 Application: https://t.co/7SE9Du5kFl

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

⏰📌1st CFA for the PhD in Economics at the Tuscan Universities 2026. Deadline June 29 at 2 pm CEST. See here. https://t.co/xO4vKc9OKv

[DEPS Siena - Economics & Statistics @DepsUSiena]

Inspiring talk, “Why I’m Not a Monetarist,” by Nobel Laureate Prof. James Robinson, who delivered the 2026 Hahn Lecture. The Hahn Lecture is organised every year by @DepsUSiena in memory of Prof. Frank Hahn

For more information, see the link below: https://t.co/nEjZtlionE

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

I read about institutions and development, and the reversal of fortune, c. 20 years ago when I was a student, which got me passionate about these topics.
It was great to meet, and listen to, James Robinson at @unisiena today! Looking forward to his Hahn Lecture tomorrow

[DEPS Siena - Economics & Statistics @DepsUSiena]

📢This Week

May 13-14

Prof. Alan Manning (@LSEEcon) is visiting @DepsUSiena

He will give talks on monopsony power in labour markets and immigration policy

[DEPS Siena - Economics & Statistics @DepsUSiena]

Forthcoming events in May at @DepsUSiena:

May 14 – Prof. Alan Manning (@LSEEcon), Open Lecture

👉 “Why Immigration Policy Is Hard”

May 26 – Nobel Laureate Prof. James Robinson (@UChicago), Hahn Lecture 2026

👉 “Why I Am Not a Monetarist”

[DEPS Siena - Economics & Statistics @DepsUSiena]

📢Open Day Lauree Magistrali Scuola Economia e Management 2026

🗓️⏲️21 aprile 2026, 14-16h

Aula Cripta, Polo Didattico San Francesco (Piazza san Francesco, 7 - Siena)

Information; 👇
https://t.co/4sOCSV1dqp

[Emanuele Felice @emanuelefelice2]

“La via del Sud. Per una storia nuova”.

La nascita e l’evoluzione del divario Nord-Sud. Le sue diverse dimensioni. Gli errori e le occasioni mancate. E le prospettive, oggi, per lo sviluppo del Mezzogiorno (che ci sono, nonostante tutto). Esce a giugno. Con @edizionimulino.

[Associazione per la Storia Economica (ASE) @per_ase]

🚨Heads-up to an economic history meeting in the wonderful Sardinia:
CfP: 15th IBEO Workshop - Economic History Annual Meeting
... 🌏 Alghero
📆July 9, 2026
The submission deadline is April 20
To submit your paper: https://t.co/XHqrCMWudp
More info: https://t.co/JEs1CTte2i

[DEPS Siena - Economics & Statistics @DepsUSiena]

🚨TODAY🚨

New @DepsUSiena Research Seminar!

@SauroMocetti (@bancaditalia)

"The market externalities of tax evasion"

Wed March 11, 3 pm Goodwin Room (DEPS, 2nd floor)

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

Big takeaway: different forms of human capital interacted.
Mass literacy + advanced technical training fostered frontier innovation, while basic technical schools helped innovation where formal education was weak—highlighting the role of local skill ecosystems in development. 5/5

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

New article out @EcHistSocReview! Did vocational and technical education (VTE) help innovation during industrialization?
Using a new dataset of ~1,800 schools (1861–1911), we study whether VTE schools shaped inventive activity measured by patents across Italian provinces. 1/5

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

The type of school mattered:
• Industrial schools → linked to higher-quality patents and stronger where literacy was already high.
• Applied art schools → boosted innovation mainly in low-literacy areas, supporting practical, low-tech invention. 4/5

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

@GabrielBurdin @AnthropicAI @ScuolaSantAnna Grande! Congrats 🥳

[Associazione per la Storia Economica (ASE) @per_ase]

The @RivStoriaEcon invites submissions for a fast-track workshop:
📅Draft articles or long abstracts should be submitted by March 15, 2026
📍Department of Economics, Management and Statistics @unimib on May 21-22, 2026
More info on: https://t.co/swpY0w7WTx

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

PhD-researcher opportunities in EH, within the project led by Francisco Beltrán Tapia at NTNU, see link: https://t.co/6037cdMpL1

[Gabriele Cappelli @gabercappe]

Senior-researcher opportunities in EH, within the project led by Francisco Beltrán Tapia at NTNU, see link: https://t.co/U9ELi0ulS5

[Industrial History Review @rhi_ihr]

Vol. 34 No. 95 (2025) of @rhi_ihr is out! The first instalment of New Perspectives in Global Economic History, edited by @alka_raman, shows how commodity-based economic history reveals global interconnections and rethinks long-term development. https://t.co/h9xQBGxKDB