Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Baumler analyses 'Markets of Pain: Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers', by Benjamin Robert Siegel. Tennent examines 'Management in interwar Britain: Continuity and change', by John F. Wilson. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Economic History Review also considers cutting edge research in its Book Reviews. Such as the latest reviews by Alan Baumler and Kevin D. Tennent. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 100
Reposted by Economic History ReviewEconomics Observatory @econ-observatory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026TODAY on the Economics Observatory - Have economic inequalities in the UK narrowed over the past 100 years? By Neil Cummins 👇️ buff.ly/T9lVPIneconomicsobservatory.comHave economic inequalities in the UK narrowed over the past 100 years? - Economics ObservatoryGlobally, there were dramatic and apparently permanent declines in almost all measures of economic inequality within countries across the 20th century. The UK too experienced these global trends, as… 043
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Advanced agricultural markets, higher land ownership, and an ethos of economic independence resulting from the commutation system appear to be the primary mechanisms driving these more favourable wealth outcomes. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the basis of a novel dataset on nineteenth-century Ceylon and a two-pronged identification strategy of neighbouring unit analysis and propensity score matching, this article finds that historical exposure to the paddy commutation system predicts higher wealth today. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This article fills that gap by investigating the paddy commutation system of British Ceylon, which taxed native farmers in cash on the potential yield of their paddy lands. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Although much of the persistence literature has dealt with extractive colonial institutions, no study directly examines the persistent effects of the transition from pure subsistence to market economies as a result of such institutions. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Now on Early View: 'Blessing in disguise: The persistent economic legacy of the grain tax of British Ceylon'. By Sudaraka Ariyaratne. #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryAlthough much of the persistence literature has dealt with extractive colonial institutions, no study directly examines the persistent effects of the transition from pure subsistence to market econom... 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The qualitative evidence depicts the struggles of households and firms managing a credit crunch, a liquidity shock, and rising transaction costs. This case study highlights the importance of banks for economic performance. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The findings suggest that the bank strike was associated with a short-fall in economic activity that punctuated a decade of robust growth. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for 3 months. It collects a variety of new evidence, such as high-frequency macro data, economic forecasts, micro data and narrative sources. 200
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Now on Early View: 'Banks and the economy: Evidence from the Irish bank strike of 1966'. By Emma Horgan, Seán Kenny & Jason Lennard. @ucc.ie @lund-university.bsky.social @quceh.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....onlinelibrary.wiley.comBanks and the economy: Evidence from the Irish bank strike of 1966Reader environment loaded 110
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026 suggesting that coal-based industrialization imposed health costs whose timing differed from modern pollution episodes. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026 Fixed-effects estimates show that higher coal consumption was positively associated with infant mortality, with the association concentrated after the neonatal period, especially from one month to under six months after birth, 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This article examines the health consequences of coal smoke during Japan’s early industrialization using prefecture-level panel data on actual coal consumption and infant mortality from1899 to 1910 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Now on Early View: 'Impacts of coal smoke on infant mortality: Evidence from industrializing Japan'. By Tatsuki Inoue. #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com 111
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The article characterizes the bear raid and squeeze as a crucial episode in the more general tug-of-war between company directors aiming to turn the VOC into an instrument of the state and a diverse group of opposing investors. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The raid ended with a squeeze executed by an opposing syndicate, bankrupting several forward traders and blocking Le Maire’s plans. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It argues that the bear syndicate members aimed for financial gain from share price declines, while their leader, Le Maire, participated for strategic reasons, that is, breaking up the VOC monopoly. It also shows that the government refused to intervene at that time. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. This paper reconstructs the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the actions taken by the syndicate members, and the responses to these actions by the company. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Now on Early View: 'The first bear raid and squeeze: Isaac Le Maire and the Dutch East India Company'. By Oscar Gelderblom, Abe de Jong & Joost Jonker. @uantwerpen.be @rug.nl @monashuniversity.bsky.social @uva.nl #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryIn 1609, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a bear raid by a syndicate of short sellers led by Isaac Le Maire, a former director. We reconstruct the forward trade between 1607 and 1611, the act... 111
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026For eligibility and further information: ehs.org.uk/award/outsta...ehs.org.ukOutstanding Book in Economic History Prize - Economic History SocietyThe Economic History Society awards a prize of £1,000, on a biennial basis, for an outstanding book in Economic and/or Social History. The winner of the Outstanding Book Prize will be announced at the... 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Nominations are normally restricted to books published by authors who are more than 10 years beyond the award of their PhD, or who have previously published a monograph and are therefore no longer eligible for the First Monograph Prize. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Upcoming Deadline! Nomination Deadline 30 September 2026. The EHS awards a prize of £1,000, on a biennial basis, for an outstanding book in Economic and/or Social History. The winner of the Outstanding Book Prize will be announced at the annual conference. #EHS100 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fourie analyses 'Slavery, freedom, and development', by Warren C. Whatley. Harris examines 'Life, Death, and Migration in the Early Modern City: The Urban Historical Demography of Würzburg', by Jan de Vries. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Economic History Review also considers cutting edge research in its Book Reviews. Such as the latest reviews by Johan Fourie & Bernard Harris. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nevertheless, it finds that this behaviour did not result in substantially higher bankruptcy risk. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It finds that when banks were completely free to choose, they held large amounts of capital but were unwilling to issue capital on a regular basis, with the net result being that capital adequacy of UK banks slowly, but surely, declined. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This paper examines bank capital decisions in the UK in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Now on Early View: 'Free to choose: Bank capital in Britain,1878–1939'. By Gareth Campbell, Lyndon Moore & John D. Turner. @profjohnturner.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social @cepr.org #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryGovernment regulation of the banking sector is pervasive, making it difficult to empirically analyse when banks would voluntarily choose to issue equity if there were no minimum requirements on capit... 120
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It traces this bias to two institutional sources: the curated pricelists of financial newspapers, which concentrated investor attention on a visible subset of securities, and the BSE’s1889 decision to stop publishing bid–ask spreads, which deepened the informational asymmetry. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Using a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo MCMC framework on the Brussels Stock Exchange (BSE), this article shows that selection bias from infrequent trading substantially inflates historical risk premia, while it also distorted the cross-sectional relationship between risk and return. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Now on Early View: 'Risk premia reconsidered: Illiquidity and selection bias for stocks and corporate bonds in the pre-First World War period'. By Justin Case, Eline Poelmans & Gertjan Verdickt. @aucklanduni.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 25/08/2026These new data reframe long-standing debates on the slave trade’s economic impact, the evolution of the market economy, and the ‘great inflation’ thesis, revealing a highly responsive monetary system that experienced dramatic shifts and shaped the region’s markets. 001
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Drawing on unexplored sources, this article constructs a new annual time series of cowry imports into West Africa between 1650 and 1905,substantially revising current estimates. 101
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Now on Early View: 'Atlantic trade and the West African market economy: New evidence from cowry imports, 1650–1905'. By María José Pont Cháfer. #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryBetween the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, billions of cowries arrived in West Africa, leaving one of the few quantitative traces available for historians to measure the Atlantic trade's impact.... 111
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This article provides an analytic narrative of the Great Divergence based on the proximate sources of growth and the fundamental sources of innovation. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Although northwest Europe only pulled ahead of the Yangzi Delta after 1700, both the positive trend of GDP per capita in north-west Europe after 1700 & the negative trend in the Yangzi Delta were continuations of a process that began in the fourteenth century, driven by different paths of innovation 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Recent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north-west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Now on Early View: 'Innovation and the great divergence'. By Stephen Broadberry & Runzhuo Zhai. @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryRecent historical national accounting data show that the timing of the Great Divergence hinges on the different trends in north-west Europe and the Yangzi Delta region of China. Although north-west E... 110
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The findings are consistent with the importance of frontier conditions, institutional frameworks, and warfare for understanding distributive outcomes in this setting. The case of Montevideo highlights the historical contingency of inequality trajectories over time. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The distribution of urban real estate and enslaved individuals, in particular, became more equitable, revealing a distinctive pattern of slave ownership. Notwithstanding these more general improvements, the top decile continued to accumulate significant fortunes. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Secondly, asset portfolios became more complex and urban-oriented. Thirdly, wealth inequality declined over the period under study. Finally, Montevideo exhibited relatively low levels of inequality in comparison with other contemporary global regions. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The present article employs probate records to analyse private wealth accumulation and distribution in Montevideo between 1760 and 1825. The results reveal four major findings. Firstly, there was a sustained rise in average wealth over time, even in the face of independence-related wars. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Now on Early View: 'Wealth and inequality in Spanish America, from colonial rule to the eve of independence in Montevideo'. By Rebeca Riella Koifmann. #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online LibraryThe present article employs probate records to analyse private wealth accumulation and distribution in Montevideo between 1760 and 1825. The results reveal four major findings. Firstly, there was a s... 111
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 12/08/2026These findings reveal substantial inequalities in child survival during industrialization linked to both urban residence and social class. 000
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Pronounced class differences existed in child mortality in both urban and rural areas but not in infant mortality. Although absolute class differences narrowed over time, relative inequalities persisted in urban areas but largely disappeared in rural settings. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Due to undercounting of infant deaths, it uses under-five sex ratios as a proxy for infant mortality. Results show a strong urban penalty in both infant and child mortality in the late nineteenth century, which diminished in the early twentieth century. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This article uses full-count Swedish censuses linked to the Swedish Death Index (SDI), which provides near-comprehensive coverage of all deaths and allows for reliable estimation of mortality in ages 1–9 years. Detailed census data enable analysis of parental household characteristics. 100
Economic History Review @echistsocreview.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Urbanization brought improvements in water quality and sanitation but also increased risks from overcrowding, pollution, and infectious diseases. It remains unexplored whether these changes narrowed or widened the class gap in infant and child mortality. 100
