Gabriele Cappelli

🚨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: crenoslef.wixsite.com/ibeo/alghero-p… More info: associazionestoriaeconomica.com/post/cfp-15th-…

🚨TODAY🚨 New @DepsUSiena Research Seminar! @SauroMocetti (@bancaditalia) "The market externalities of tax evasion" Wed March 11, 3 pm Goodwin Room (DEPS, 2nd floor)

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

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

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

@GabrielBurdin @AnthropicAI @ScuolaSantAnna Grande! Congrats 🥳

Excited to share that we’ve received a research award from the @AnthropicAI Economic Futures Program🎉 This support enables Julian Tiedtke (@ScuolaSantAnna) and me to study how worker representation shapes the adoption and impacts of AI & robotics in the workplace More soon!

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: associazionestoriaeconomica.com/post/cfp-rse-i…

PhD-researcher opportunities in EH, within the project led by Francisco Beltrán Tapia at NTNU, see link: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Senior-researcher opportunities in EH, within the project led by Francisco Beltrán Tapia at NTNU, see link: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

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. revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hist…

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📢THIS WEEK RESEARCH WORKSHOP: "Tracing the roots of human capital inequality in early-modern Italy, 17th – 19th centuries" 🗓️16-17 Oct 2025 Goodwin Room, San Francesco #Siena

@DepsUSiena @unisiena this morning discussing the history of Palestine, the current situation in Gaza, the use of the term "genocide" in international law and how poetry has helped people in Gaza to cope with destruction and death. Owed thanks to the colleagues who organised it!

What creates sustained economic growth? This year’s laureates used different methods to answer this question. Through his research in economic history, Joel Mokyr – awarded the 2025 prize in economic sciences – has demonstrated that a continual flow of useful knowledge is necessary. This useful knowledge has two parts: the first is what Mokyr refers to as propositional knowledge, a systematic description of regularities in the natural world that demonstrate why something works; the second is prescriptive knowledge, such as practical instructions, drawings or recipes that describe what is necessary for something to work. Mokyr used historical sources as one means to uncover the causes of sustained growth becoming the new normal. He demonstrated that if innovations are to succeed one another in a self-generating process, we not only need to know that something works, but we also need to have scientific explanations for why. The latter was often lacking prior to the industrial revolution, which made it difficult to build upon new discoveries and inventions. He also emphasised the importance of society being open to new ideas and allowing change. #NobelPrize

Breaking Nobel news!🏅 Congratulations to Philippe Aghion, Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt on winning the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The European Research Council is proud to have backed Philippe Aghion with two ERC Advanced Grants. 🇪🇺

The second day of our annual meeting has started! @gabercappe presents a paper on the legacy of the Italo-Ethiopian conflict on human capital 🎓

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our @DepsUSiena Research Day! 📊 A great showcase of faculty work. #Economics #Statistics #ResearchDay

Days like these at @unisiena, wow! #stevemccurry