• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays at 17:00-18:40 on Zoom

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)