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Centre for Economic & Social History at the University of Oxford. Live tweeting of our faculty and graduate seminars and #econhist updates.
May 18, 2021 19 tweets 6 min read
Tonight's evening seminar, given by Marie Stella Chiaruttini (@univienna) and entitled 'War, Debt and Constitution: Italy's Path to Nation-Building and Central Banking in the Nineteenth Century' is about to begin! #OxfordESH #Twitterstorians #EconHist ...and we are off!
Mar 3, 2021 14 tweets 4 min read
Our graduate seminar is soon to begin! This week we have our own @GGabbuti presenting on 'Income Inequality in Italy (1900-1950): New Yearly Estimates from Dynamic Social Tables' #Twitterstorians #Econhist #OxfordESH Overview: Image
Mar 2, 2021 13 tweets 4 min read
This evening's seminar, given by @M_Giorcelli on 'Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance' is about to begin! #Twitterstorians #Econhist #OxfordESH The background: Image
Oct 14, 2019 30 tweets 29 min read
And we are off! #oxeshfacseminar #econhist #twitterstorians #econtwitter Offer: public investments occur where profit is not possible, and usually have long break-even horizons. Private finance requires certainty. #oxeshfacseminar #econhist #twitterstorians #econtwitter
Apr 7, 2019 27 tweets 22 min read
Gavin Wright (@Stanford) delivers the @EcHistSoc Tawney Lecture on Part 2 of the Williams Thesis: did industrial sectors destroy (or have no need for) slavery by the C19? #ehs2019 #econhist Wright: Indentured servitude could not have supplied enough labor for the Caribbean sugar economy #ehstawney #ehs2019 #econhist