LSE Department of Economic History

📖 How did modern #Capitalism emerge and how has it evolved over the centuries? 🪙 Join us and @RMilibandLSE this Wednesday as @Sven_Beckert explores these big questions through his latest book. lse.ac.uk/events/capital… #lseevents #history #echist

📖 How did modern #Capitalism emerge and how has it evolved over the centuries? 🪙 Join us and @RMilibandLSE this Wednesday as @Sven_Beckert explores these big questions through his latest book. lse.ac.uk/events/capital… #lseevents #history #echist

🗺️ @msaleh1982 and @RoyHistory1 are featured in this month's LSE Research for the World, about a project they undertook with Leigh Gardner to develop tools for teaching about colonialism in UK schools 🏫 Read the article here 👇 lse.ac.uk/research/resea…

Don't miss today at 6pm our #AtkinsonLecture on the economic history of #caringlabour by Jane Humphries @LSEEcHist sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/ev…

Call For Papers! Are you working on economic history in the preindustrial period? Please submit a proposal for our conference, held jointly at the London School of Economics and King's College London in November! Deadline March 31st! #econhist #medieval

🌱Do global environmental improvements require “de-growth?” Are a robust economy and a healthy environment inherently at odds? Our speaker, Spencer Banzhaf, will disscuss the relationship between our economy and nature on Thursday 🎙️ lse.ac.uk/economic-histo…

We are excited to have Jane Humphries as our speaker on Wednesday, discussing how we should approach caring labour as an integral part of economic activity ⚕️ #lse #echist #caring sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/ev….

What makes innovation possible?🧪And what we can learn from Joel Mokyr's work? Join us on this exciting, @NobelPrize themed roundtable with @SdePleijt, Alessandro Nuvolari and @phwallis, moderated by Joan Roses, on the Industrial Revolution 🏭 lse.ac.uk/economic-histo…

📜New working paper: Why did Socialist countries join an explicitly Capitalist trade treaty and how did it impact them? Between 1966 and 1973, four Eastern bloc countries acceded to the GATT. Using a gravity model, I estimate the impact of this historical curiosity. 1/3 🧵

What has our department been up to in 2025 🗺️📈? Check it out here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichistor… #lse #echist

Thanks to all who joined us and @LSEEcHist for the launch of Professor Malika Zeghal's latest book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East. Missed the event? Watch the full discussion here: youtube.com/watch?v=keMkAh…

Now on Early View: 'The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages'. By Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita & Spike Gibbs. @jordanclaridge @V_Delabastita @GibbsSpike @LSEEcHist @Radboud_Uni @kingshistory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

This week @NickArtFitz, class teacher on the course "Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa", took his students on a field trip to see the Cambridge Cairo Genizah collection - famous from Greif's paper on The Maghribi Traders' Coalition - and the @FitzMuseum_UK 📜🔎

@msaleh1982 will be one of the featured speakers at LSE's next World Cafe🌍event, 'Decolonising knowledge and education'. Open to all #LSE students and staff, you can find out more here: info.lse.ac.uk/staff/services…

Do not miss out on this exciting event tomorrow evening with @msaleh1982, @LSEMiddleEast and @LSEAnthropology 📖

LSE Middle East Centre, the LSE Department of Economic History and LSE's Programme on Cohesive Capitalism for the launch of Dr Malika Zeghal's latest book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa. linkedin.com/posts/lse-midd…

After ousting #NicolásMaduro, Trump has his eyes firmly on Venezuela’s oil industry. But neither the industry nor the economy will be turned around any time soon, writes Colin Lewis @LSEEcHist. He explains the challenges ahead on @LSEforBusiness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview…

@NoahWSutter spends his Christmas break reading "Midaq Alley". Naguib Mahfouz describes the (economic) life in an eponymous Cairo back street, teeming with barbers, innkeepers, businessmen, dentists etc., at the threshold to a new modern era. (10/10)

@CokicMarco goes home with "Murder at the Black Cat Cafe". This murder mystery is set in postwar Tokyo - bomb scarred and years before Japan's postwar economic miracle. Sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi has to solve the case of a murdered woman burried behind a notorious brothel. (9/10)

Once again, our department's PhD students met for the annual Book Secret Santa. Our students have proven that their reading tastes cover a wide range of genres, periods, and topics... Many of them feature a connection to economic history and economic themes. Let's dive in! (1/10)