Spending a Windfall
The paper “Spending a Windfall: American Precious Metals and Euro-Asian Trade 1531-1810”, by André C. Silva and myself, is now available as a GGDC working paper. Here’s the abstract: During the early...
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I recently gave an interview to Garret M. Petersen of the Economics Detective Radio where we discuss some of my work. You can listen to it in this link: Money, Trade and Economic Growth in the Early...
View ArticleOn the discrepancies between the original Maddison dataset and more recent...
Angus Maddison was one of the most cited economists of the 20th century. I often get emails asking me about Maddison’s figures, because I have worked a lot on historical national accounts...
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“Standards of living in Europe’s Global Empires” session in the WEHC, Paris 2022
This session has been accepted to the World Economic History Conference, which will happen in Paris in 2021. Update: Due to COVID-19, this conference will instead take place in the summer of 2022....
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Call for papers: Early modern science, technology, and institutions
The University of Manchester Conference to be held at the University of Manchester Date: May 13, 2022 Conference title: Early modern science, technology, and institutions Keynote speakers: Debin Ma...
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The rise and fall of paper money in Yuan China, 1260–1368
Hanhui Guan (Peking University), Meng Wu (Manchester) and I have a new working paper with the above title (available in open access here). We have been working on this for some time, and we are happy...
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Conference program: The Chinese Economy in the Long Run
Here’s the program for this conference, previously announced as a call for papers here. The program below is preliminary and subject to change. Please check this website for the latest updates. Part...
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