The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development

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👇

Hiroki Shin (Birmingham) is now presenting "A New Perspective on Bank of England Note Circulation: Lost Note Claims Data, 1690s–1830s" 👇🏼

Malik Çürük (Tilburg) is now presenting "Malthus Meets Luther: the Economics Behind the German Reformation" 👇🏼

Michiel de Haas @MichieldeHaas (Wageningen) is now presenting "Export Expansion under Price Collapse: Commodity Exporters and the Great Depression, 1930–1938" 👇🏼

𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 Conference to take place at the University of Manchester on May 15, 2026 The program includes presentations by @VeldeFrancois, Nathan Sussman, @jagjit_chadha, Larry Neal, Alejandra Irigoin & others!👇

Jörg Baten (Tuebingen) is now presenting "So many insights I never believed would be possible”: New archaeological and big data strategies for long-term economic studies of the past 12,000 years" 👇🏼

Tom Raster @tomraster (LSE) is now presenting "Breaking the ice: The persistent effects of pioneers on trade relationships" 👇🏼

Eren Arbatli (Durham) is now presenting the paper "Masculinity norms and antigay attitudes (joint with Emmanuel Adu Sarfo)" 👇🏼

Valeria Rueda (University of Nottingham) is now presenting the paper “The death of King Coal and the scars of deindustrialisation”. 👇

Check out this new publication in AEJ: Applied by the Lewis Lab's deputy director, Dr. Yuzuru Kumon👇

Paul Seabright (TSE) is now presenting "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power and People" 👇🏼

My W. Arthur Lewis Lab lecture on "International Currencies in the Lens of History" youtube.com/watch?v=d8VJMY…

Klas Ronnback (Gothemburg) is now presenting “From Bondage to Free Labour: Living standards for agricultural workers in the Caribbean for a century after emancipation” 👇🏼

The Arthur Lewis Lab (November 13-14 2025):

Maria Stella Chiaruttini (University of Zurich) is now presenting the paper “Banks of issue as agents of financial development: from micro data to macro outcomes” 👇🏼

Details and submission instructions: nofuturepast.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/cal…

Call for papers: Global Monetary History and Policy Lessons Lewis Lab Conference #8 To take place at the University of Manchester on May 15, 2026 Keynote by Nathan Sussman (Geneva Graduate Institute) Policy session with Jagjit S. Chadha @jagjit_chadha (Univ. of Cambridge) 👇

Packed room for Barry Eichengreen's keynote, "International Currencies: Past, Present, and Future", at the @ArthurLewisLab conference #7 👇🏼

The program is here: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?D…

The second day of the Arthur Lewis Lab conference #7 👇🏼