How can we learn from the past to reconnect finance with the public? Date: 12 March 2021 We are delighted to announce that registration is open for the Making Sense of Finance conference on 12 March 2021. The conference will be broadcast live from De Nederlandsche Bank in Amsterdam. 300 years of sense making:It is... Continue Reading →

Date and time:24 March 202101.00 pm (GMT)/08.00 am (EST)/10.00 pm (JST) As part of a webinar series of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, Christian Borch (Sociology, Copenhagen Business School) will talk about the relationship between crowds, cities and financial markets. According to late nineteenth-century crowd theory, modern cities are overwhelmed... Continue Reading →

The annual conference of 2021 is all about the history of finance. 2020 marks the 300-year anniversary of the 1720 South Sea Bubble, a turning point in the history of finance. Starting in France, England and the Low Countries, the bubbles left their mark on Europe and beyond. They also sparked a wide public debate... Continue Reading →

4 February 202112.00 - 12.45 CETOn zoom eabh in conversation with Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) based on a joint paper by Sebastian Horn, Carmen M. Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch  The scale of official (bilateral and multilateral) lending is hugely relevant, yet has received little academic attention –  so far.  Now, Christoph Trebesch... Continue Reading →

The Center for Early Modern History invites us to join the fall lecture series, Panic and Plague in 1720 & 2020: The View from Minnesota. In 1720, the Mississippi Company, a project of financial speculation in the Mississippi River region, collapsed. The explosion of this financial bubble coincided and was entangled with the last mass outbreak... Continue Reading →

Volume 54, Number 1, Fall 2020 Special Issue: The South Sea Bubble, Mississippi Bubble, and Financial Revolution Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal publishes different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses that explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars... Continue Reading →

Paris, 1720. Throngs of frenzied speculators gather on rue Quincampoix, seduced by the promise of spectacular wealth awaiting investors in the Compagnie des Indes. The manic trade in stock shares fuels an unprecedented bull market that culminates in the world’s first international financial disaster: the collapse of the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles, named after... Continue Reading →

It is our pleasure to invite you to the first two seminars of the Early Modern Financial History online seminar: Tuesday 24 November 2020 via Zoom 8:00-9:00 New York, 13:00-14:00 Lisbon/London, 14:00-15:00 Bern/Amsterdam, 22:00-23:00 Tokyo Claudio Marsilio (Universidade de Lisboa): Rethinking the role of the Genoese bankers in the credit and bullion markets. New evidence... Continue Reading →

Join historians and social scientists to discuss a recent book on the history of capitalism: Yamamoto, Taming Capitalism before its Triumph. Date and Time Tue, 17 Nov 2020Chicago  07:00-09:00 CST New York 08:00-10:00 EST London 13:00-15:00 GMTHong Kong 21:00-23:00 HKT Tokyo 22:00-24:00 JST  Venue and registration Zoom (online) please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/taming-capitalism-before-its-triumph-author-meets-critics-online-tickets-126016218903 About this Event The history of... Continue Reading →

Series Editors: John Shovlin, New York University Philip Stern, Duke University Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College This series seeks manuscripts exploring the many dimensions of early modern political economy, and especially the ways in which this period established both foundations for and alternatives to modern capitalist thought and practice. We welcome submissions that examine this history... Continue Reading →