The year 2020 is the tercentenary of the Mississippi Bubble and the South Sea Bubble. Find out more about these 1720 stock market bubbles in the brand new publication entitled 'New history of finance publication:  Boom, Bust, and Beyond. New Perspectives on the 1720 Stock Market Bubble'.   A lot of research has been done on the... Continue Reading →

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have extended the deadline of our call for papers for the DBSECS (Werkgroep 18e Eeuw) conference to 15 May 2020. We hope to be able to have a ‘regular’ conference as planned on 15 October 2020, but we are looking into options for remote participation, also with an eye... Continue Reading →

Volume 38A features a symposium on public finance in the history of economic thought, guest edited By Claire Silvant and Javier San Julián Arrupe. In addition to the guest editors, the symposium includes contributions from Nesrine Bentemessek Kahia, Christina Laskaridis, Richard Sturn, and Samuel Demeulemeester. Volume 38A also includes two interesting general-research essays, written by Cosma Orsi and John Henry, respectively,... Continue Reading →

Please see the link below: https://som.yale.edu/blog/looking-back-300-years-at-the-south-sea-bubble-of-1720?blog=75818

University of Manchester, 3-4 June 2019 Call for Papers Due: 6 March 2020 This conference will explore, analyse, and debate the ways in which morality and ideas of social and economic progress have been entwined in the past and resonate today. Morality and its relationship to economic behaviour has long fascinated historians and social scientists,... Continue Reading →

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 →