Spring 2015

Title

Speaker

Date

DEBATE:

Capitalism and Vulnerability. Flood Disasters and Agrarian Capitalism in the North Sea Area, 13th-18th centuries 

Pernicious consequences of predatory capitalism? Agrarian capitalism and water management in the early modern Low Countries

Tim Soens (Antwerp / UU)

Piet van Cruyningen (Wageningen)

05-02-15

Longevity and the Rise of the West: Lifespans of the European Elite, 800-1800

Neil Cummins (LSE)

12-02-15

The Economics of Genocide: The Confiscation of Armenian Property during World War I

Ugur Ümit Üngör (UU)

19-02-15

Metropolitan vision under question: colonial policies and fiscal practices in Portuguese Africa (1890s-1970s)

Kleoniki Alexopoulou (Wageningen)

26-02-15

Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: the Bank of England, the Financial Revolution, and the formation of the British State, 1694-1821

Nuno Palma (LSE)

12-03-15

The Great Divergence and the Economics of Printing

Luis Angeles (Glasgow)

19-03-15

The poor and the Holy Spirit. Poor relief and the mitigation of food crises in the countryside of Holland, 16th-17th centuries

Jessica Dijkman (UU)

26-03-15

The extent and composition of disaster relief after China's 1823 flood: New archival evidence

Ni Yuping (Tsinghua, Beijing) & Martin Uebele (Groningen)

02-04-15

Economic inequality in Italy: a long-term view (1300-1800 ca.)

Guido Alfani (Bocconi)

09-04-15

Land access inequality and education in pre-industrial Spain

Francisco Beltrán (Cambridge)

16-04-15