Victoria Gierok

📢 Calling all early-stage-researchers in Economic History! 📚 💡 A great chance to present your WP! Submit your paper or extended abstract for the YSI-EHES Economic History Graduate Webinar Spring 2025! 🌍 Deadline CFP: Jan 31 🗓️ e-mail to: ysi.ehes.econhist@gmail.com

@cbarrie It honestly still blows my mind that we can do that in the UK. So cool. Didn‘t believe it when I first opened a bank account in Oxford. Same with the gov.uk site, so many services are so so efficiently handled.

@cassidycroci Dambedei meets Geist.

Spooky 👻 season has arrived according to German bakeries 🥯!

@joefrancis505 As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic synthetic control.

Synthetic Kafka might be my favourite so far.

@NewLeftEViews Thank you!

Great financial history piece by @GierokVictoria (highlighting some recent LSE EH work) on the Euro's HRE antecedents. project-syndicate.org/onpoint/euro-2…

This was such a great workshop. Thank you!

I've just re-read it in full and it's a great piece of writing.

What is particularly impressive is his use of individual-level data *connected* across time to show that in Nördlingen holding political office meant a substantial increase in one's personal wealth.

I am obviously biased, but @f_schaff's new paper on how council members in early modern German cities used their offices to enrich themselves is absolutely fascinating and a great piece of scholarly work: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Very much looking forward to this!

@matt_haslberger @ArshiaHashemi @ChicagoBooth Congratulations! 🎓

@ArshiaHashemi @ChicagoBooth Congratulations and all the best, mate!

NEW ✨ As Gods among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by @guido_alfani @PrincetonUPress reviewed by @NoahWSutter @LSEEcHist wp.me/p2MwSQ-hiV

…and to Rober Merges, who receives the Feinstein Prize for Best MPhil Dissertation. His work investigates parishes in Gloucestershire to explore the course of deindustrialisation and the effects of the Old Poor Law over the long 18th century. #econhist #twitterstorian

Very impressive new paper by Felix on how urban government elites use offices to accumulate wealth. More open governments reduced this tendency. #econhist

Congrats to this year's EHS prize winners: New Researcher Prize: Louise Cormack (Lund) Héctor Paredes (Paris School of Economics) Iris Wohnsiedler (TCD) New Researcher Poster Prize: Kirsty Peacock (Oxford)

Having collected more than 300 pension claims, she shows that as symptoms could come on suddenly and were persistent over victim‘s lifetimes, the real effects on individual‘s quality of life and economic activity has been underestimated. Look out for her future book!

@ShelleyCastle2 presented her work on the long-term economic effects of WWI gas victims. This is the first study showing that gas victims received very little in pension compensation as their disabilities were often judged to be minor.

I was very happy to chair one of the new researchers session at the EHS this year and I want to give a shout out to the excellent papers in my session. #EHS2024 @JoungYeobHa presented his paper on inclusive propaganda in WW1.