• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Catherine Schenk
• Timing: Tuesdays at 17:00-19:00 - in-person only
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Four Types of Corruption
  Emeritus Professor Avner Offer

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - History and Policy: Incentivizing an Ethical Economics
  Dr Hilary Cooper (The Finance Foundation), Ben Szreter (Behavioural Insights Team), Professor Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge)

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The impact of the Black Death on the English Economy: 1350 to c.1400
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Effect of the Second World War on Japanese Children’s Growth
  Dr Tim Cole (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health), Associate Professor Eric Schneider (London School of Economics)

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Economic History Recorded in Arctic Ice: European Lead and Silver Production from the Early Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period
  Dr Joe McConnell (Desert Research Institute Reno), Professor Andrew Wilson

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Service, Help and Delegation: Labour Relations in the Past Studied with the Help of the Verb-Oriented Method
  Professor Maria Ågren (Uppsala University)

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Saving Labour: Automation and its Enemies
  This seminar has been cancelled due to industrial action.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Carl Frey

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45: Causes and Consequences
  This seminar is cancelled due to industrial action.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Ingrid de Zwart (Wageningen University)

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A Dog that Did Not Bark: Limited Liability and Enterprise Form in Pre-Industrial Tuscany
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
  Francesca Trivellato (Princeton)

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45: Causes and Consequences
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
  Ingrid De Zwarte (Wageningen)

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Health Inequality and the 1918 Influenza in South Africa
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
  Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch)

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Effect of the 1963 Equal Pay Act on the Gender Gap
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
  Martha Bailey (Michigan)

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technology Adoption during the British Industrial Revolution
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
  Alex Trew (Glasgow)

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Living Standards and Inequality in Sweden, 1650-1900: Evidence from Probate Inventories
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
  Erik Bentsson (Lund)

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Felons' Chattels and English Living Standards, 1370-1600
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
  Chris Briggs (Cambridge)

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Economic Motives for Foot-Binding in China
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
  Lingwei Wu (Bonn)

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Narrative and Statistical Explanations in History and the Social Sciences
  Paul Seabright (University of Toulouse & All Souls College Oxford)

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia
  Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fraud and the Problem of Trust in Early Modern English Commerce
  Emily Kadens (Northwestern University)

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Legal Origins of Corporate Governance: Choice of Law in Egypt, 1887–1913
  Cihan Artunç (Middlebury College)

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Rise of a Continental Economy: a Malthusian Analysis of German Real Wages, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
  Ulrich Pfister (University of Münster)

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fiscal Legibility and State Development: Evidence from Colonial Mexico
  Emily Sellars (Yale University)

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years
  Timothy Guinnane (Yale University)

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Contracts without Courts: The Value of Contractual Protection in an Era of Absolute Sovereign Immunity (Pre-1929 Sovereign Bonds)
  Veronica Santarosa (University of Michigan)

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fiscal Innovation and the Origins of Paper Money in Song China
  Richard von Glahn (UCLA)

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - War as a Catalyst for Financial Innovation and Speculation in the Early Modern Period: Examples from Marseille’s Marine Insurance Market, 1754-1783
  Mallory Hope (Harvard)

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Dissecting the sinews of power: International trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823
  Noam Yuchtman (Oxford)

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Economic Shocks and Religious Conflict in Medieval India
  Sriya Iyer (Cambridge)

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Exploring Women's Work in Early Modern Rural Italy: Insights from the Republic of Venice
  Andrea Caracausi (Padua)

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "Contours of Death" Revisited: the Geography of Health and Mortality in Early Modern England
  Romola Davenport (Cambridge)

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Patent Litigation in the Nineteenth-Century German Empire: An Empirical Analysis of Nullity Proceedings
  Jochen Streb (Mannheim)

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Does Cultural Assimilation Matter? (joint work with J S Bentzen, P Sharp, C V Skovsgaard, and C Vedel)
  Nina Boberg-Fazlic (TU Dortmund)

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Centuries of the Elderly: Old Age, Pensions, and Retirement in Premodern Europe (c. 1000-1800)
  Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund)

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850-1920
  Katherine Eriksson (University of California, Davis)

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Is this Time Different? Financial Follies across Centuries (with Jeremy Fouliard and Vania Stavrakeva)
  Helene Rey (London Business School)

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Imperial Bonding: The Growth, Demise, and Reformulation of Financial Networks in the Interwar Atlantic
  Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow)

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Safety Net: central bank balance sheets and financial crisis 1587-2020 (with Martin Kornejew, Paul Schmelzing, Moritz Schularick)
  Niall Ferguson (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets (with Asaf Bernstein, Carola Frydman)
  Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Recombinant novelty in early-modern English caselaw (with Peter Grajzl)
  Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - How many jobs? Division of labour in early modern England and Wales (with David Chilosi, Giampaolo Lecce)
  Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics)