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The Industrial Revolution reconsidered : Hard Steps, the Great Filter, and Doomsday

Naudé, Wim - 2026

The Hard Steps model is applied to argue that the Industrial Revolution (IR) heralded a terminal phase of human existence. Assuming six hard steps, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov method is used to pinpoint the start of the IR to ≈ year 1700. Once these hard steps were cleared, the global economy...

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Moral capital in economic history : a brief survey of ideas and relevance to Africa

Tewari, Devi D.; Greyling, Lorraine - 2026

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

Search and matching frictions prevent firms from forming international trade linkages. Despite trade fairs being a common and often subsidized tool to overcome these frictions, we lack causal evidence on how they facilitate link formation. We exploit a unique feature of Hungarian firms'...

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

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Histories that matter : the case for applied economic history

Colvin, Christopher L.; Fourie, Johan - 2026

We define applied economic history as the systematic use of historical reasoning to address economic policy problems. Building on work in applied history, we argue that economic history contributes to policy not by offering ready-made lessons, but by disciplining the narratives and analogies...

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What does finance do? : a comparative and historical perspective, 1850-2020

Bua, Krystian; Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2026

This paper develops a functional and historical appraisal of finance. We start by proposing a taxonomy of three core, theory-driven functions of the financial system - intermediation, entrepreneurial, and accumulative - that coevolve throughout the history of capitalism. We build an empirical...

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ifo Dresden Konjunkturprognose Winter 2025 : ostdeutsche Wirtschaft im Spannungsfeld zwischen Strukturwandel und geopolitischen Umbrüchen

Lehmann, Robert; Ragnitz, Joachim - 2026

Im Jahr 2025 dürfte die Wirtschaftsleistung in Ostdeutschland (mit Berlin) um 0,4 % und damit etwas stärker als in Deutschland insgesamt zulegen. In Sachsen dürfte das Bruttoinlandsprodukt wohl kaum mehr als stagnieren (+0,1 %). Im Jahr 2026 entfalten zwar die geplanten Fiskalmaßnahmen ihre...

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ifo Konjunkturumfragen Ostdeutschland und Sachsen Januar 2026

Lehmann, Klara - 2026

Das ifo Geschäftsklima Ostdeutschland basiert auf ca. 1 700 monatlichen Meldungen von Unternehmen, von denen ca. 500 aus Sachsen stammen. Die Befragungsteilnehmer*innen kommen aus dem Verarbeitenden Gewerbe, dem Dienstleistungssektor, dem Handel und dem Bauhauptgewerbe. Die Unternehmen werden...

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Random connections and violence in the french revolution

Coppenolle, Brenda van; Vanden Eynde, Oliver - 2026

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Random connections and violence in the French Revolution

Coppenolle, Brenda van; Vanden Eynde, Oliver - 2026

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(Male) wages in Switzerland, 1750-1860

Baltensperger, Michael; Chambru, Cédric; Metzler, Jakob; … - 2026

We estimate daily wage rates for skilled and unskilled construction workers and agricultural laborers in Switzerland from 1750 to 1860, a period of profound political and economic transformations. Our analysis is based on 17,700 newly collected wage quotes from primary sources and 23,300 price...

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From paddy to port : the role of Northwestern Korean rice cultivation in interwar Japan

Maeda, Kiyotaka; Kahm, Howard - 2026

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Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform : the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade

Meadowcroft, John - 2026

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

This paper studies how and why anti-Irish sentiment in 19th century England spills over onto jury decisions at London's Old Bailey Central Criminal Court. We classify the (perceived) ethnicity of courtroom participants according to whether they have distinctly Irish or English surnames based on...

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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Mapping technological trajectories : evidence from two centuries of patent data

Bergeaud, Antonin; Gozen, Ruveyda Nur; Van Reenen, John - 2026

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Mapping technological trajectories : evidence from two centuries of patent data

Bergeaud, Antonin; Gozen, Ruveyda Nur; Van Reenen, John - 2026

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Applied economic history as practical historicism : encouraging policymakers to reason with the past

Colvin, Christopher L.; Dorman, Andrew; Jordan, David P.; … - 2026

This paper examines how applied history can contribute to policymaking when understood as a way of structuring judgement under uncertainty rather than as a source of policy lessons or predictions. It argues that economic history is particularly well suited to facilitating this role because it...

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Poverty relief policies in pre- and post-transformation Poland : a Polanyian perspective

Lüpnitz, Jonas - 2026

This working paper investigates the tension between market forces and welfare policies by applying Karl Polanyi's "double movement" study to pre- and posttransformation Poland. The analysis aims at providing a comprehensive perspective on how poverty relief policies impacted and have been...

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Debt and deficits: fiscal analysis with stationary ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - 2026

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Debt and Deficits : Fiscal Analysis with Stationary Ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - 2023

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Debt and deficits : fiscal analysis with stationary ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - 2023

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Debt and Deficits : Fiscal Analysis with Stationary Ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - 2023

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Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history

Xue, Melanie Meng - 2026

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Crowd-sourced chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history

Xue, Melanie Meng - 2025

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A land of sages : a legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam

Luu Duc Toan Huynh; Duong, Kiet Tuan - 2026

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Mothers, schools, and the making of American human capital mobility

Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2026 - Original version: March 2025, this version: Januar 2026

How did the US become a land of opportunity? Previous historical research on intergenerational mobility has focused on father-son income correlations, masking the role of mothers. We introduce a new mobility measure that incorporates both parents’ human capital, develop a latent variable...

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Mapping the Grandes Gabelles in early modern France

Davoine, Eva; Enguehard, Joseph; Gay, Victor; … - 2026

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Historical social tables : advantages, methodology, and problems

Erfurth, Philipp; Gómez León, María; Gabbuti, Giacomo; … - 2026

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A golden age for all? : income inequality and social classes in Italy, 1951-1973

Gabbuti, Giacomo; Rappa, Edoardo - 2026 - This draft: April 1, 2026

This paper presents the first reconstruction of income inequality in Italy during the so-called "Golden Age", by building Dynamic Social Tables (DSTs) from 1951 to 1973. The resulting estimates show increasing income inequality between 1951 and 1961 - that is, during the so-called "Economic...

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Marshall at the times of Marshall

Boeri, Filippo; Silva, Olmo - 2026

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Hysteresis and selection in the rise of fascism : the "ordinary men" of the Nazi party

Bosshart, Luis; Deter, Mex; Heldring, Leander; Mohr, Cathrin - 2026 - Latest version: April 24, 2026

We digitize and analyze the near-universe of National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) membership records and link them to population and industrial censuses. Four findings emerge. First, as the party expanded, its membership came to resemble the broader population more closely in...

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Hysteresis and selection in the rise of fascism : the "ordinary men" of the Nazi party

Bosshart, Luis; Deter, Max; Heldring, Leander; Mohr, Cathrin - 2026

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The Civil War reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

Did Southern elites' economic losses from abolition translate into diminished political influence? Using novel census-linked data on state lawmakers across four slave-owning and two Northern states (1850-1880), we document a striking paradox: despite the massive wealth shock of emancipation, the...

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The civil war reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

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The civil war reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026 - This version: May 2026

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On the origins of modern East Asia : knowledge and the economic transformation of Japan and China in the late 19th century

Ma, Debin; Rubin, Jared; Yin, Weiwen - 2026

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On the origins of modern East Asia : knowledge and the economic transformation of Japan and China in the late 19th century

Ma, Debin; Rubin, Jared; Weiwen, Yin - 2026

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Income inequality and structural transformation : evidence from Swedish micro data, 1870–1970

Bengtsson, Erik; Molinder, Jakob; Prado, Svante - 2026

We study the relationship between the structural transformation of the economy and the income distribution, focusing on the case of Sweden from 1870 to 1970, with extra attention paid to the 1870-1950 period, for which we produce extensive new data. Average income increased fivefold between 1870...

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The republic of letters and the rise of the West

Melillo, Andrea; Pascali, Luigi; Prem, Mounu; Trento, … - 2026

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The republic of letters and the rise of the west

Melillo, Andrea; Pascali, Luigi; Prem, Mounu; Trento, … - 2026

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A practitioner's guide to using large language models and generative ai in economic history

Ferrara, Andreas - 2026

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Climate and prehistoric migration

Huybers, Peter; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A.; … - 2026

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Climate and prehistoric migration

Huybers, Peter; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A.; … - 2026

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Climate and prehistoric migration

Huybers, Peter; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A.; … - 2026

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What did workers do? : using job ads to analyze the task content of work in an industrializing economy

Hellberg, Erik; Molinder, Jakob - 2026

Ever since Smith and Marx there has been a debate about the impact of industrialization on the content of work. While shifts in the occupational structure associated with industrialization are well charted, we lack systematic evidence on the tasks workers actually performed during this period of...

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Short-run and long-run impacts of the female labor force mobilization in Japan during World War II

Okazaki, Tetsuji - 2026

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Short-run and long-run impacts of the female labor force mobilization in Japan during World War II

Okazaki, Tetsuji - 2025

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Recovery and transition of the japanese economy after world war II : productivity implications of policy regime changes on the coal mining industry

Okazaki, Tetsuji - 2026

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Geopolitical revaluation of Gold : the renaissance of Gold

Horváth, Marcell - 2026

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ifo Konjunkturumfragen : Ostdeutschland und Sachsen März 2026

Lehmann, Klara; Nuernbergk, Franziska - 2026

Das ifo Geschäftsklima Ostdeutschland basiert auf ca. 1700 monatlichen Meldungen von Unternehmen, von denen ca. 500 aus Sachsen stammen. Die Befragungsteilnehmer*innen kommen aus dem Verarbeitenden Gewerbe, dem Dienstleistungssektor, dem Handel und dem Bauhauptgewerbe. Die Unternehmen werden...

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Did newspaper competition promote rebellion? : the case of the 1837-38 rebellions in Quebec

Crawford, Patrick; Geloso, Vincent - 2026

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College access and notability in the United States

Stemper, Samuel - 2026

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The EU reset: from Brexit fallout to a fragile rapprochement

Holmes, Peter; Suraj, Sahana - 2026

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Historical perspectives

Eichengreen, Barry - 2026

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The consequences of a trade collapse : economics and politics in Weimar Germany

Brey, Björn; Facchini, Giovanni - 2026

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Army, tax reforms, and well-being in eighteenth-century Russia

Mustafin, Arthur R. - 2026

This article examines archival records on crop yields and recruit numbers in eighteenth-century Russia, analyzing their dynamics and comparing them with data on recruits' height as an indicator of changes in the standard of living. The study uses more than one hundred and ten archival sources,...

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Giving eternal life: Notes on a recent book by Marco Dotti

Lorandi, Giacomo - 2025

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Giving eternal life : notes on a recent book by Marco Dotti

Lorandi, Giacomo - 2025

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Palla Strozzi, a Florentine merchant-banker in Lyon: Financial power, trade networks, global warfare and internal struggles during the Italian wars

Rabà, Michele Maria - 2025

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Palla Strozzi, a Florentine merchant-banker in Lyon : financial power, trade networks, global warfare and internal struggles during the Italian wars

Rabà, Michele Maria - 2025

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FDI spillovers in history: Interwar Japanese investment in the Chinese cotton industry

Görg, Holger; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric; von … - 2025

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From periphery to core? : mapping a history of post-Keynesian economics in Brazil

Guizzo, Danielle; Almeida, Felipe; Brites, Maríndia; … - 2025

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A nation of contrast? : the geography of personality in Sweden, regional polarization, and a research agenda

Obschonka, Martin; Grillitsch, Markus; Guldåker, Nicklas; … - 2025

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Networks paving the way : apprenticeship and occupational mobility in early modern Genoa

Brioschi, Alessandro - 2025

This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of over 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1450-1530), I examine the extent to which kinship ties with masters or guild members influenced both entry...

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Formation and sustainability of financial networks in early modern Europe

Fontaine, Laurence - 2025

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Married women in the rural credit economy of early modern England, 1500-1700

Robb, Hannah - 2025

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More than merchant bankers : second-class financial intermediation in eighteenth-century Amsterdam

Feenstra, Alberto - 2025

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