Making Sense of Finance in the Long Eighteenth Century Annual Conference of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference date: October 15, 2020Location: AmsterdamSubmission deadline: March 31, 2020 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... Continue Reading →

Conference EABH in cooperation with National Bank of Greece 11 June 2020National Bank of Greece82 & 93 Eolou Street10551 Athens, Greece This conference will look at the relationship between the financial sector and migration - taking a comparative historical view. It’s impossible to look at human history without acknowledging continuous migratory flows and mass movements... Continue Reading →

Archival WorkshopEABH in cooperation with National Bank of Greece 12 June 2020National Bank of Greece82 & 93 Eolou Street10551 Athens, Greece Call for PapersThis workshop wants to put the spotlight on the photography collections of not exclusively, but mainly financial corporations. It is the continuation of a workshop on the same topic that took place... Continue Reading →

A bit more than a year ago, many of us gathered at the Conference on Money as a Democratic Medium.  We aimed at a territory that is critical to political communities:  the design of money and credit, understood as collective projects that configure much of material life and political power, along with economic norms, social... Continue Reading →

The website aims to provide a platform for exploration of money and credit as matters of design.  We approach them and their larger architecture as legal institutions that are crucial dimensions of governance in modern societies.JustMoney.org will serve a number of functions, including a feed of scholarship posts (abstracts and links to recent publications and working papers); roundtables (invited exchanges... Continue Reading →

We are writing to invite you to submit a paper proposal or to express your interest in attending the eighth CEPR Economic History Symposium, which will take place in Geneva, 12-13 June 2020. The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers in the field. Papers are being sought on topics including, but not necessarily limited... Continue Reading →

The literature on long-run financial stability has focused majorly on developed financial markets because of the abundance of data. As an example, the Macrohistory database which is a reference in this strand of literature is restricted to 17 developed economies and does not include any Latin American country. On occasion, authors like Bordo or Eichengreen... Continue Reading →

2020 History of Economics Society (HES) Conference Utrecht University Hall, Netherlands 18-21 June 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS The annual HES Conference will take place at the Utrecht University Hall in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 18-21 of June 2020. Papers dealing with any aspect of the history of economics are welcome, including work related to any period... Continue Reading →

Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 June 2020 Paris School of Economics 48 Boulevard Jourdan, Paris, France Submission Deadline: Monday 16 December 2019 URL: https://portal.cepr.org/new-perspectives-interwar-financial-and-banking-crises The recent global financial crisis has sparked renewed interest in the interwar financial and banking crises, particularly those associated with the Great Depression of the 1930s. This new wave of research has... Continue Reading →

Financial History Workshop - 27 September 2019 At the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, savings banks were created in many European countries : the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Austria. Now, 200 years later, savings banks still play an essential role in the provision of financial services and financial... Continue Reading →

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