🚨 Virtual Conference in Historical Political Economy 🚨

The VWHPE co-convenors (Tine N. Paulsen, Dmitrii Kofanov, & I) are excited to announce the first annual virtual conference in HPE.

It will take place on May 9, starting at 10.45 AM ET.

Full program here: historicalpe.org/annual-virtual…

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New paper: *Rulers on the Road*. We map emperors’ itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire from 719 to 1519 and shed light on how they projected power without centralized bureaucracies. Very fun project with -- deactivated legacy account -- Clara Neupert-Wentz & Jørgen Møller shorturl.at/npKQ4

Join us for our next #EqualityDebate with
Branko Milanovic on #VisionsofInequality 🤩

Looking forward to a great discussion with Marie Andreescu Ulysse Lojkine & Thomas Piketty !

🗓️Tue 21 May, 17:30-19:00
📍PSE, Paris 14e Paris School of Economics
👉Register: inequalitylab.world/en/event/visio…

Job opportunity with an incredible team! Postdoc in ERC project 'Politics of the Periphery in Urban Latin America' - Medellín academictransfer.com/en/340657/post…

Tonight Takuya Kuroda plays for a SOLD OUT crowd in @lodgeroom #LosAngeles ! Congrats to all the ticket winners.

Look out for more from Takuya Kuroda & #jazzisdead !

#takuyakuroda #artdontsleep #jazzisdead

📢 Call for Submissions! Economic History Society's 3rd PhD Thesis Workshop, Sept 2024 via Zoom. Share thesis papers, gain feedback, build networks. Apply by May 31. Economic History Society #econhist #twitterstorians #PhDWorkshop

Truly great work by Santiago Saavedra: new & accesible monitoring technologies can help curb illegal activities even in weakly institutionalized settings. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

This is great Héctor Paredes Castro ! Congrats

🧵Excited about our new WP w/ Alice Sodano!
We explore the differential rates of return globally and find:
1⃣The US exorbitant privilege has expanded to the rich world
2⃣This translates in net income transfers from the poorest to the richest of 1% of the GDP of top 20% countries

So inspiring to see Columbia’s Carolina Concha-Arriagada sharing her life story and her views on the lack of representation of women in Economics. She is really what exemplifies coming from the bottom, a non elite institution in a highly unequal country, to the top 🗽

«This is a hippie, and I am a hippie too».
(Muhammad Ali)

[Jeff and his historic music store: Music Inn World Instruments - Short Documentary Film made by Marea Fenili] youtube.com/watch?v=E8IV0F…

Are you a PhD student working on Inequality and related topics?

Apply by April 15 to the Stone Centre at UCL PhD Conference and come present your research at UCL Economics!

UPDATE: we’ll be able to offer funding for a limited number of presenters

More info here: sites.google.com/view/uclstonec…

One of the best econ meetings worldwide 🫶🏾

'(...) the provision of universal public education per se may be insufficient to facilitate mass investments in human capital, particularly when the skill premium is subject to expropriation under labor coercion.'

Hace unas semanas, culminamos con los programas del 2023. Además de agradecer a nuestras organizaciones aliadas (LimaSE, Seminario MAP), queríamos hacer este post para extender las gracias a nuestro equipo de mentores 👏🏽🎊

econthaki.github.io/programas/2024…

Happy out to be awarded this year's New Researcher Prize Economic History Society for my paper on women in the labour movement alongside Héctor Paredes Castro and Louise Cormack
Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH) TCD Economics Trinity Research in Social Sciences