Paul Sharp

🐮Eoin McLaughlin, @PaulSharpEcHist, Xanthi Tsoukli, and @ChristianVedel have published an interesting article: "Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War" 🇮🇪🇩🇰 👉Link below!

📢Call for papers The 12th Annual Meeting of the Danish Society for Economic and Social History will commence under the theme of “Demography, Education, and Social Change in Economic History” 📅September 24th, 2026 📍University of Southern Denmark, Odense Read more below!

🐮🇩🇰@PaulSharpEcHist will give a presentation on the topic: "Between Care and Exploitation: Human–Cow Relations in Danish Dairy Farming, 1750–1900" in Aarhus!

🚨 The Department of Economics and Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) at SDU are happy to announce our PhD summer school in Economic History 🚨 10-21 August 2026 (2 week) 17-21 August 2026 (1 week) Theme: ”Populism, Uncertainty, and the Globalized Economy”

🚨We're happy to announce the possibility for joint applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship positions at SDU’s Historical Economics and Development Group, HEDG (Odense, Denmark) Read more on how to apply here: sdu.dk/en/forskning/f…

👩‍🎓📚Exciting work by Nick Ford, Kristin Ranestad & Paul Sharp in assessing the educational elite! Check out the interesting article here: #d1e206" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢 New publication alert! @PaulSharpEcHist, Nina Boberg-Fazlic, @JeanetBentzen, Christian Volmar Skovsgaard, and @ChristianVedel have published a new article, “Holy cows and spilled milk: The impact of religious missions on firm-level productivity” 🐮❗️

🚨Only 10 days left to sign-up to our summer school in Odense on historical economics. Highlights: Keynote lectures by Christopher Meissner on the global economy in the past. Further expect courses on project design, ML methods for data processing, and the recent DiD literature

📘 New release coming soon! "Et land, der kom fri – En økonomisk historie om Danmark" by Paul Sharp & Markus Lampe will soon be published by @univpressdk. An accessible and insightful journey through Denmark’s economic history. Get yourself a copy: 🔗 universitypress.dk/shop/et-land-d…

📢 Coming soon! @PaulSharpEcHist, alongside coauthors Gunnar Persson and Markus Lampe, will soon publish their book: "An Economic History of Europe" with @CambridgeUP. Get yourself a copy: 🔗 cambridge.org/highereducatio…

🚨 PhD course @SDUeconhist this August! "Historical Perspectives on Current Econ Issues: Big Data & Applications" 📅 Aug 11–22 | Odense 👨‍🏫 Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) Apply by July 1 #econtwitter sdu.dk/en/forskning/f…

🎶 What makes a great musician? @Arts_Econ took the stage at Science & Beers in Odense to explore 1,000 years of musical greatness through the lens of economic history. Cheers🍺 Details: studenterhus.dk/facebook-event…

🎙️ @Arts_Econ joined P1 K-Live to talk creativity, culture, and the unstoppable rise of the "meta express." Catch the full interview here: dr.dk/lyd/p1/k-live/…

Did you eat butter this Easter? Was it Lurpak? 🧈 New publication in Business History. It naturally leads to a little reflection I would like to share with you. And it also leads to a small corner of economic history that needs reinterpretation🧵

📢 New publication alert! @PaulSharpEcHist, @ChristianVedel, @xenia18ts, and @eoinmclaughlin have published a new article: "Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War"🇮🇪🇩🇰🐮

🚨📢 @GregoryClarkUCD in the media! 🚨📢 The “golddigger” myth gets a reality check! 💰📉 HEDG professor Gregory Clark is featured in Weekendavisen on social mobility and economic history. 👉 Read the article here: weekendavisen.dk/2025-15/ideer/… #EconHist #SocialMobility

My own department @SDUeconhist has also made historical tariffs and their impact the topic of this year’s summer school -> see here for more:

#SophieYiwenLi @ChristianVedel @PaulSharpEcHist #TorbenJohansen @EconMattCurtis @SarahWashbrook @GregoryClarkUCD @JuliusKoschnick are attending the @EcHistSoc conference at the University of Strathclyde on April April 4-6.🇬🇧 #EHS2025

✨ Exciting News! Big congratulations to HEDG Professor @PaulSharpEcHist and #MarkusLampe from @WU_econhist on their new paper, "Of the bovine ilk: quantifying the welfare of dairy cattle in history, 1750–1900"🐮🇩🇰 Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #EconHist #SDU

I’m happy to announce that my JMP🚨🚨Teacher-directed change: The case of the English Scientific Revolution” is now out as a working paper. Finalising the draft has been a lot of work. So, very happy to share this! For lots of history, new micro-data&natural experiments, read on