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We are a new research group in economic history and comparative development at the University of Manchester - led by @nunopgpalma and @gguillaumeblanc

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🚨 Call for applications 🚨 **Graduate Student Workshop** November 13, 2024 in Manchester Apply before September 17: All students will be fully funded. Applications from students and JMCs working in econ history, dev, pol econ, etc encouraged. (1/4)
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@ArthurLewisLab
The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
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‼️ Launch of the Arthur Lewis Lab ‼️ We are a new research group in economic history and comparative development at the University of Manchester 👇 Much more to come (conferences, seminars, workshops, etc) 🔗 Check our website
Launch of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development

The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development is a new interdisciplinary research group in economic history and comparative development at the University of Manchester.The lab will promote...

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🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Economic Development and Structural Change: A Conference in Honour of W. Arthur Lewis 14-15 November 2024 at the University of Manchester Keynotes: @gerardrolanducb , Richard Rogerson To apply (deadline 27 August 2024)
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🚨 Call for papers 🚨 Legal and institutional origins of economic development: lessons from the past Conference dates: June 18-19, 2024 Where: @ArthurLewisLab , Manchester Deadline to apply: March 31, 2024
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🚨 Keynote lecture 🚨 James A. Robinson ( @UChicago @HarrisPolicy @PearsonInst ) "The Africa World System" - with @SoerenHenn at the Arthur Lewis Lab (University of Manchester)
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James A. Robinson (Chicago) "The Africa World System"

This keynote lecture on "The Africa World System" by James A. Robinson (Chicago Harris), joint with Soeren H. Henn (Newcastle), has been filmed at the "Big c...

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📢 We are delighted to present the schedule for the @ArthurLewisLab Seminar Series next year! Get ready for a year of cutting-edge research in Manchester. Stay tuned for more details and events.
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🚨 We are recruiting! 🚨 Arthur Lewis Lab Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Manchester's @ArthurLewisLab Interested in economic history, economic growth and development, political economy, cultural economics? Join us! @gguillaumeblanc @nunopgpalma
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🚨 The Hajnal Lecture 2024 🚨 Noam Yuchtman ( @OxfordEconDept ) "Protests on Campus: The Political Economy of Universities and Social Movements" When: Thursday May 9, 2024 - 4pm @ArthurLewisLab , Manchester
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Day 1 of the Legal and institutional origins of economic development conference at the @ArthurLewisLab , starting with Gary Cox’s keynote on “The Inquisition and the Decline of Science in Spain” (with @valfig_tin )
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Mohamed Saleh @msaleh1982 from @LSEEcHist is now presenting his paper "The Power of Connections: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890–1950" (joint with Cihan Artunç) 👇
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🚨 Call for applications 🚨 @ArthurLewisLab **Graduate Student Workshop** June 17, 2024 in Manchester Apply to present your work if you're working in econ history, development, political economy and related fields Deadline: April 7, 2024
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Timur Natkhov now presenting at @ArthurLewisLab the paper "All Along the Watchtower: Military Landholders and Serfdom Consolidation in Early Modern Russia" (w/ Andrea Matranga) 👇
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Leticia Arroyo Abad @LArroyoAbad (CUNY) is now presenting "Gambling for America: The First Wave of Migration to the Americas, 1492-1540", (with coauthors @JosespinSanchez @YannayASpitzer @AriellZimran ) 👇
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Tim Besley is now giving the Arthur Lewis Lecture: "Trust in Government and Economic Performance" @uomsoss @OfficialUoM
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🚨 Conference on Legal and institutional origins of economic development + 2nd Lewis Lab Graduate Student Workshop🚨 Graduate student workshop - June 17 Conference - June 18-19 @ArthurLewisLab , Manchester 👇
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Eric Melander @EricMelander (Birmingham) is now presenting his paper "Unpopular Reforms, Social Unrest and Grassroots Political Movements" (with Konstantin Bakharev and Martina Miotto) 👇
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Noam Yuchtman (Oxford) is now giving the inaugural Hajnal Lecture: "Protests on Campus: The Political Economy of Universities and Social Movements”. It is being recorded and will be available in our YouTube channel later 👇
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Today at the Lewis Lab we have @SoerenHenn (Newcastle) presenting his fascinating paper The Memory of Repression and Who Fights: Evidence from the Irish Potato Famine (with Connor Huff)
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And we're off! Leigh Gardner @leighgardnerEH presenting her keynote, "How was power shared in colonial Africa? The many constitutions of the British empire" 👇
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Program for the “Quantifying the Long Run History of Africa” conference @ArthurLewisLab conference #4 , @OfficialUoM keynotes: J. Bolt, M. van Waijenburg, @lwantchekon , @JacobWeisdorf , @leighgardnerEH , G. Austin. co-organized w/ @hcarvalhal1 & @jordicaumj Program details👇
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Mattia Bertazzini (Nottingham) is now presenting his paper "The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy" (with Michela Giorcelli @M_Giorcelli ) 👇
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📢✨ Arthur Lewis Lab Conference #1 ‼️🔥 **The Chinese Economy in the Long Run** October 22, 2022 Keynotes: Stephen Broadberry and Richard von Glahn Our first conference this Friday in Manchester! @OfficialUoM @ManUniEconomics @ArthurLewisLab @UoMChina @BritishAcademy_
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Noam Yuchtman @OxfordEconDept after giving the Inaugural Hajnal Lecture in Manchester
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Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen (University of Copenhagen) presenting "Modernization and Cultural Change: Evidence from the Second Industrial Revolution" (co-author: Gustav Angneman) in today's Applied Seminar @OfficialUoM @ManUniEconomics . Stay tuned for the Lewis Lab seminar at 4pm! 📚
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And we're off! The second Lewis Lab graduate student workshop has begun! 👇
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Guilherme Lambais @glambais from @icsunivlisboa presenting his paper "Old But Gold: Historical Pathways and Path Dependence" 👇
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Today at the @ArthurLewisLab and @ManUniEconomics we have @RWacziarg presenting “Cultural Remittances and Modern Fertility”
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🚨 Lewis Lab Working Paper 2024-01 🚨 "French" by @gguillaumeblanc and Masahiro Kubo
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🚨 Lewis Lab Working Paper 2024-02 🚨 "The Cultural Origins of the Demographic Transition in France" by @gguillaumeblanc
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Patrick Wallis @phwallis from @LSEEcHist and Michael Scott from our own @uomsoss presenting "Trust, Guilds and Kinship in London, 1330-1680" at this evening's seminar 👇
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🚨 Hajnal Lecture 2024 🚨 Noam Yuchtman ( @OxfordEconDept ) "Protests on Campus: The Political Economy of Universities and Social Movements" 👇
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Hajnal Lecture 2024 - Noam Yuchtman (Oxford) "Protests on Campus"

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Group picture during the launch and inaugural meeting of the Lewis Lab at the University of Manchester! @nunopgpalma @gguillaumeblanc @PhilippRoessner @EdmondJSmith @hcarvalhal1 @MengWu_EcoHis @Nichogachet
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Cyril Thomson (Padua) is now presenting his paper "Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Upward Mobility in Colonial Schools" 👇
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📢 Lewis Lab Graduate Student Workshop 📢 March 23 at the University of Manchester The workshop will bring together a small group of advanced phd students & scholars interested in economic history, comparative development, political economy & related fields Apply by Feb 10 🚨
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Bishnu Gupta (Warwick) is now presenting her paper "Conflict and Gender Norms: Evidence from India" (with Mark Dincecco, James Fenske and Anil Menon) 👇
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David Chilosi (KCL) presenting "How many jobs? Division of labour in early modern England and Wales" 👇
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🚨 Noam Yuchtman (Oxford) to give our inaugural Hajnal Lecture 🚨 When: May 9, 2024 - 4pm Where: Council Chamber, University of Manchester More info (to register etc) soon @OfficialUoM @uomsoss
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Alan Fernihough ( @QUBelfast ) giving this year's first @ArthurLewisLab seminar. Paper: "Mind Your Language: The Decline of the Irish Language in the Nineteenth Century" 👇
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Interviews of @lwantchekon , Marlous van Waijenburg, Leigh Gardner, and Gareth Austin at the Quantifying the long-run history of Africa conference last month at the @ArthurLewisLab 👇 @nunopgpalma @hcarvalhal1 @jordicaumj @gguillaumeblanc
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Lewis Lab Conference #4 - Quantifying the long run history of Africa
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‼️ The world's first-ever research lab logo created using AI-generated paintings 👇 We study historical processes, but we're also modern by all accounts! "A surrealist painting of Manchester during the industrial revolution" (DALL-E) @ArthurLewisLab
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Pablo Fernández Cebrián @paferce (Wageningen) presenting his paper "Withdrawal of the state: the provision of primary schooling in Mozambique under the indigenato" at @ArthurLewisLab 👇
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Neil Cummins @NJCummins from @LSEEcHist is now presenting "The Last Will and Sentiment (The Economic Status of Women in England, 1258-1992)" @ArthurLewisLab 👇
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Nadia Matringe (LSE) is now presenting the paper "Italian banks and the organization of the sovereign debt market in 16th century France." 👇
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Today we have Luz Marina Arias (CIDE) on land reform and economic development in twentieth century Mexico. @nunopgpalma @gguillaumeblanc @MengWu_EcoHis @Nichogachet @ThiloHuning @BDVarian
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John Joseph Wallis (Maryland) presenting his work on ‘Organizations not Atoms: Rules, Organizations, and Long-Term Development’ at the Lewis Lab yesterday.
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🚨 Keynote lecture 🚨 @WalterScheidel ( @Stanford ) "Without Europe: A Maximal Counterfactual" at the Arthur Lewis Lab (University of Manchester)
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Walter Scheidel (Stanford) "Without Europe: A Maximal Counterfactual"

This keynote lecture on "Without Europe: A Maximal Counterfactual" by Walter Scheidel (Stanford) has been filmed at the "Big counterfactuals of macro-politic...

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🚨 Lewis Lab Working Paper 2023-01 🚨 "African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil" by @glambais and @nunopgpalma
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Debin Ma (Oxford) presenting "State Capacity in Imperial China: Quantifying a Millennium of Public Finance" (997-1911 AD)" at @ArthurLewisLab 👇
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Adrien Montalbo (Sussex) is now presenting his paper "The Economic Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century France." 👇
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Raphael Franck @Raphael__Franck (Hebrew University) is now presenting his paper "Labor Scarcity, Technology Adoption and Innovation: Evidence from the Cholera Pandemics in 19th Century France" @ArthurLewisLab
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Pete Maw @Pete_Maw from the University of Leeds is now presenting "The productivity of English cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution" 👇
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François Velde @VeldeFrancois (Chicago Fed) Is now presenting "Sovereign debt restructuring and banking: Naples in the 16th century and Britain in the 19th century" 👇
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Eric Chaney (Oxford) presenting his research on Modern Library Holdings and Historic City Growth at the @ArthurLewisLab
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Today at the @ArthurLewisLab we have @f_kersting presenting his paper "Mimicking the Opposition: Bismarck's Welfare State and the Rise of the Socialists" 👇
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Our inaugural Lewis Lab seminar yesterday, with @BDVarian talking about trade restrictiveness and welfare effects!
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And Steve Broadberry (Oxford) on UK productivity since 1086!
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Ninth presentation of the day! Catherine Casson from AMBS on productivity in medieval England.
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🚨 Last month we had our inaugural conference on "The Chinese Economy in the Long Run" 🚨 In the thread below, you can find: - videos of the keynote lectures - interviews of some participants 🎥👇
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The poster and program for the Productivity Revolutions conference on June 16 in Manchester 👇 Keynote lectures @M_Giorcelli @johnvanreenen @gguillaumeblanc @nunopgpalma @bart_ark
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🚨 Public lecture 🚨 Deirdre McCloskey @DeirdreMcClosk on “Liberalism caused the great enrichment” June 15 at @ArthurLewisLab The University of Manchester
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The poster and program for the Productivity Revolutions conference on June 16 in Manchester 👇 Keynote lectures @M_Giorcelli @johnvanreenen @gguillaumeblanc @nunopgpalma @bart_ark
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Peter Murrell (Maryland) is now presenting "From Status to Contract? A Macrohistory from Early-Modern English Caselaw and Print Culture". He is currently visiting the Lewis Lab as Hallsworth Visiting Professor 👇
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Now our own @nunopgpalma on the legal foundations of the industrial revolution!
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And next Josh Martin (BoE) on the productivity of tax collection in the UK since 1850.
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🚨 Keynote lecture by Stephen Broadberry (Oxford) 🎥 "Innovation and the Great Divergence" at our inaugural conference "The Chinese Economy in the Long Run" last month at @OfficialUoM
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This keynote lecture on "Innovation and the Great Divergence" by Stephen Broadberry (Oxford) has been filmed at the "Chinese Economy in the Long Run" confere...

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Yesterday. Sean Bottomley (Northumbria) presenting fascinating work on “The adoption of steam power during the British Industrial Revolution, 1800-1870”.
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After our own Jordi @jordicaumj who presented "Institutions, local agency and allegiance: healthcare provision in colonial India" (sorry no picture!), we now have @GierokVictoria (Oxford) presenting "The Thirty Years' War and the Decline of Urban Germany" 👇
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Lars Boerner (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) is now presenting his paper "Railroad Formation Risk Shifting and Bubbles" (with Carsten Burhop and Samad Sarferaz) 👇
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70 years ago in 1954, W. Arthur Lewis published "Economic development with unlimited supplies of labour" in the Manchester School. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979.
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Deirdre N. McCloskey @DeirdreMcClosk at the Lewis Lab last week
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Sir Arthur Lewis finally gets the lab he deserves (he started there after all)
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Our second seminar of the year, with Richard von Glahn (UCLA) on the origins of paper currency in China!
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@mattias_fo @MonirBounadi Now @MohibAly with The Atlantic Market Effect: Evidence from 18th Century Britain
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@EricMelander @LindaShuku @aspaglayan @nunopgpalma @mrsultan713 @gguillaumeblanc @RWacziarg @Lamiis_k Next presentation by @valiguaran on How Marching Suffragists Facilitated Women’s Electoral Participation
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@EricMelander @LindaShuku @aspaglayan @nunopgpalma @mrsultan713 @gguillaumeblanc @RWacziarg And now @Lamiis_k on Gender-Based Labor Legislation and Employment!
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Jacob Weisdorf @JacobWeisdorf presenting his keynote, "The shifting impact of ethnic-related issues on aid effectiveness: evidence from Christian missionary activities in Africa" 👇
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For the workshop: @bakhtawar_a @MohibAly @MonirBounadi @AliceCalder @dm_coluccia @AmelioTommaso @ryu_matsuura
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@EricMelander @LindaShuku @aspaglayan @nunopgpalma @mrsultan713 @gguillaumeblanc @RWacziarg Now Joanne Haddad is presenting "Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern and Female Empowerment" (joint with M. Curtis, P. Gobbi, and Marc Goñi) 👇
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For the conference: @NGaroupa @aspaglayan @BreyBjorn @barsanetti @EricMelander @gguillaumeblanc @hsigstad @JavierMejiaC @joanne_had @Lamiis_k @LindaShuku @MIwanowsky @MengWu_EcoHis @nunopgpalma @mrsultan713 @valiguaran @gierokvictoria
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Today at the @ArthurLewisLab
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@mattias_fo @MonirBounadi @MohibAly @AmelioTommaso @bakhtawar_a Next @ryu_matsuura on Political (Mis)selection: The Role of Historical Institutions!
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@ArthurLewisLab
The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
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Two more days to apply! We aim to fully fund around 8-10 students to present their research and receive feedback, in Manchester, on June 17, 2024.
@ArthurLewisLab
The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development
@ArthurLewisLab
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🚨 Call for applications 🚨 @ArthurLewisLab **Graduate Student Workshop** June 17, 2024 in Manchester Apply to present your work if you're working in econ history, development, political economy and related fields Deadline: April 7, 2024
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After Alice Calder (above) on the Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilization for Women’s Suffrage, now @mattias_fo on Teachers at Day Suffragist at Night (with @MonirBounadi )
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Last week at the lab, Catherine Casson (Manchester) on Enterprise and Urban Development from 1100 to 1500. And tomorrow, we have John Joseph Wallis (Maryland) visiting us in Manchester! He will be presenting his work on Rules, Organizations, and Long-Term Development.
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@mattias_fo @MonirBounadi @MohibAly And now Inheritance and Migration, by @AmelioTommaso
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@EricMelander @LindaShuku @aspaglayan @nunopgpalma @mrsultan713 @gguillaumeblanc @RWacziarg @Lamiis_k @valiguaran And from yesterday: @hsigstad on “Legal Dynasties”, @MengWu_EcoHis on “Organizational Form, Personnel Management, and Governance Structure”, and Chris Desean (second keynote of the day) on “The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity”
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@MarvinSuesse @paferce @ZhexunMO In today's last presentation prior to the closing address, @LeDeMagal presents "A village-centric agricultural economy with investment in social connections, not assets: interviews with Yao chiefs from Southern Malawi and parallels with other societies in Africa" 👇
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G. Blanc ( @gguillaumeblanc ), M. Bühler ( @MIwanowsky ), B. Brey ( @BreyBjorn ), N. Cummins ( @NJCummins ), J. Haddad ( @joanne_had ), Soeren Henn ( @SoerenHenn ), S. Mehmood ( @mrsultan713 ), A. Paglayan ( @aspaglayan ), N. Palma ( @nunopgpalma ), H. Sigstad ( @hsigstad )
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@gguillaumeblanc @nunopgpalma @hcarvalhal1 @SoerenHenn @lwantchekon @glambais And finally, Marlous van Waijenburg closing the day with her keynote, "Quantitative approaches and shifting frontiers in African labor history" 👇
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@mattias_fo @MonirBounadi @MohibAly @AmelioTommaso After Nina Liu on The Gendered Impact of Printing on Human Capital (sorry forgot to take the picture!) now @bakhtawar_a on the Unintended Consequences of Anti-Corruption Campaigns
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Xiaobing Wang (Manchester) is now presenting "Defining Inclusive Institutions", our last Lewis Lab seminar of the academic year! Our seminar series will now pause and continue in the new academic year from September. Have a good vacation (or time to revise papers...) everyone! 😎
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The Arthur Lewis Lab announces a new annual lecture in honour of John Hajnal 👇
The Arthur Lewis Lab announces a new annual lecture in honour of John Hajnal

On Monday, 19 February 2024, the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development will announce the first awardee of its inaugural Hajnal Lecture.This lecture series is named after the late John Hajnal,...

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Next @EricMelander on “Unpopular Reforms, Social Unrest, and Grassroots Political Movements”
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@EricMelander @LindaShuku @aspaglayan @nunopgpalma @mrsultan713 Guillaume Blanc @gguillaumeblanc is now presenting "Malthusian Migrations" (joint with @RWacziarg ) 👇
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Mathias Bühler @MIwanowsky is now presenting "From couch to poll: media content and the value of local information" (coauthored with Andrew Dickens) 👇
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And onto Day 2 of the Legal and institutional origins of economic development conference at the @ArthurLewisLab , with Peter Murrell’s keynote on “Tales from Text”
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Day 1 of the Legal and institutional origins of economic development conference at the @ArthurLewisLab , starting with Gary Cox’s keynote on “The Inquisition and the Decline of Science in Spain” (with @valfig_tin )
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🚨 Keynote lecture by Richard von Glahn (UCLA) 🎥 "Modalities of the Fiscal State in Imperial China in Comparative Perspective" at our inaugural conference "The Chinese Economy in the Long Run" last month at @OfficialUoM
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This keynote lecture on "Modalities of the Fiscal State in Imperial China in Comparative Perspective" by Richard von Glahn (UCLA) has been filmed at the "Chi...

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@BreyBjorn @JacobWeisdorf Gregori Galofré Vilà (Valencia) presenting "From Sails to Steam: Evolution of Maritime Productivity", with Eduard Alvarez Palau, and Dan Bogart 👇
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Now, Hélder Carvalhal @hcarvalhal1 presents "Living standards in Angola, 1760-1975" 👇
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@nunopgpalma @hcarvalhal1 @SoerenHenn Now, Leonard Wantchekon @lwantchekon presents his keynote, "Externalities of Colonial Schools: Evidence from Benin and Nigeria" 👇
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@ArthurLewisLab
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Past students (on twitter) include @EnguehardJoseph @Nichogachet @glambais @PonsardJade @salvo_carla @VenturiniMiri @hillaryvipond @wei_jinlin @billywoom @bakhtawar_a @MohibAly @AliceCalder @mattias_fo @AmelioTommaso @ryu_matsuura (4/4)
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We will also be hiring a postdoctoral researcher (3 years contract) — the Arthur Lewis Postdoctoral Fellowship — start date in Fall 2023. #EconJobMarket #EconTwitter
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@aigp1101 @gguillaumeblanc @WalterScheidel @Nichogachet @nunopgpalma @ManUniEconomics The keynote lectures will be recorded and uploaded on our youtube channel.
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@EricMelander @LindaShuku @aspaglayan Next @nunopgpalma on Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the a Industrial Revolution (and again no picture sorry!)
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