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👇

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 👇🏼

Taking no prisoners, he began the talk by saying "economic history is being taken over by an invasive species" which is ahistorical 😬

Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin) is now presenting ''Historical Economics versus Economic History "👇🏼

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👇

Victoria Gierok @GierokVictoria is now presenting "Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years’ War and the Fiscal-Military State" 👇🏼

Balázs Muraközy (Liverpool) is now presenting "From Planning to Markets: Export-Oriented Firms and Firm–Market Heterogeneity in 1990s Hungary" 👇🏼

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 aeaweb.org/research/equal…

Mark Harrison (Warwick) is now presenting "Three Centuries of Economic Warfare and Sanctions: An Overview" 👇🏼

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…