Vincent Delabastita

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre-industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in mediev...

Now on Early View: 'The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages'.
By Jordan Claridge, Vincent Delabastita & Spike Gibbs.
@jordanclaridge.bsky.social @vincentdelabastita.bsky.social‬ @kingshistory.bsky.social
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Research position: Money, History, and Moral Economies (1250–1530) The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-t…

Research position 24 months: Money, History, and Moral Economies (1250-1530). See:

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Exploiting or Augmenting Labor? (Forthcoming Article) - We show that existing ‘production approaches’ to markdown estimation do not separately identify factor price markdowns from factor-augmenting productivity levels. We propose a ...

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Exploiting or Augmenting Labor?" by Michael Rubens, Yingjie Wu, and Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Reminder:
One week left till the paper submission deadline (15. May) for History of Recent Economics (HISRECO) at Radboud University Nijmegen

Our @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has a new working paper on medieval wage inequality in England 📜 Read his summary below 🔽

#econhist #economics #lse #medievalhistory

🚨Our new working paper (w/ @jordanclaridge.bsky.social & Spike Gibbs) on medieval wage inequality is now available as a working paper with @lseechist.bsky.social 🚨

My esteemed Colleague @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has done a nice thread on this below! 👇

Happy and proud to announce that the 17th History of Recent Economics Conference will happen at Radboud University, 23-24 October 2025!
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How The Black Death Increased Worker's Wages: Medieval England's Economic Revolution | IEA Interview YouTube video by Institute of Economic Affairs

Thanks to the Institute for Economic Affairs for indulging in my ramblings about my recent research!

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Really cool to see Jordan describing how the medieval economy worked! He covers interesting questions like: What is a peasant? How market oriented were medieval people? And what role did horses play in the medieval economy?

Write what you like The Our Long Walk Essay Competition

The Our Long Walk Essay Competition just launched.

Any African 25 or younger can apply.

The prize money of $500 is not massive. But it is a start. (I'm funding it myself.) And you get your ideas published on the blog.

Theme: 'Progress and Innovation in Africa's Past'.

Please spread the message!

Congratulations!! Hope to catch up soon to celebrate!🙌🏻

Congrats!!

Just a reminder about this call for papers!

Nice thread! Will a movie review follow soon? :)

It was a great honor to present my work to this amazing group of economic historians!

In this paper, Maarten Goos and I argue that 19th-century steam technology had drastic consequences for labor market competition!
Stay tuned for the working paper!

Thanks @jordanclaridge.bsky.social

Hello @bsky.app!

Let me start off my activity on this website by fully endorsing the beautiful thread that @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has made on our joint work on (in-kind) wages in the Middle Ages, available at *Explorations in Economic History*!

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New paper:
“(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money” with @vincentdelabastita.bsky.social and Spike Gibbs is now out in
Explorations in Economic History

The paper is open access and here is a summary 🧵 (1/16)
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