📢 New III WP:
This paper provides a methodological contribution to the study of historical income inequality by examining the construction and use of social tables for the 19th century.
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New WP. "Historical Social Tables: Advantages, Methodology, Problems", Erfurth, Gómez León, Gabbuti, & Milanovic.
Fascinating methodologically and substantively!
@brankomilan.bsky.social @philerfurth.bsky.social @mgzl.bsky.social @ggabbuti.bsky.social
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The paper, which focuses on 19th century estimates, proposes a set of "rules" or a broadly common methodology to enable better comparability of the results. Read the paper by @brankomilan.bsky.social, @philerfurth.bsky.social, @mgzl.bsky.social, & @ggabbuti.bsky.social.
🎉 Thrilled and grateful to the @fundacionareces.bsky.social for funding my project “The Price of Empire: State Capacity and Inequality in Castile, 1528-91”, with @mgzl.bsky.social, studying inequality and tax capacity at municipal level in 16th-century Castile.
#EconomicHistory #Inequality
How exceptional was Italy’s inequality path in the interwar years? What was the role of wars, depression, and authoritarianism?🚨 Our new paper w/ @ggabbuti.bsky.social explores these questions.
Full article here 👇https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498325000622?via%3Dihub
🧵Economic History Transformed: What 25 Years of Data Reveal
1/ No longer just descriptive stats & British factories. It’s global, data-driven, and methodologically bold field. We analysed 25 years of publications in 5 top journals using NLP and network analysis.
Here’s what we found 👇
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Chart showing the methodological evolution of economic history. The share of qualitative studies has drastically decreased since 2000 and quantitative studies using panel data and causal analysis have increased. Economic history is increasingly able to provide us with evidence and inform pressing questions at the intersection of research and real-world decision-making. This column uses natural language processing and network analysis of articles from five leading journals over the past 25 years to identify a shift towards a more global, data-driven, and methodologically advanced field. It maps changing thematic priorities, institutional collaborations, and author networks, highlighting both a generational turnover and growing geographical diversity. It also reveals a strong move towards causal identification-based econometrics alongside a sharp decline in qualitative research, signalling both convergence and trade-offs in the discipline’s integration with mainstream economics.
@gregorigv.bsky.social & @victormgomezblanco.bsky.social use natural language processing and network analysis of economic history articles to identify a shift towards a more global, data-driven, and methodologically advanced field.
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#EconSky
📢 #InnovacióDocent amb impacte per als estudiants d’ #ADE!
💡 L’article a #REIRE mostra una activitat amb #Excel per fomentar la motivació i l’anàlisi crítica.
👉 doi.org/10.1344/reir...
✍️ G. Galofré-Vilà i M. Gómez-León
#EducacióSuperior #UniversitatDeValència #CompetènciesDigitals
Great to be back home!
What an outstanding workshop hosted by María Gómez León and @gregorigv.bsky.social at the University of Valencia. I had the pleasure of connecting with some truly brilliant and incredibly welcoming researchers.
¿Es el pasado útil para la economía? Cómo, dónde y qué se investiga en historia económica nadaesgratis.es/admin/es-el-... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
There are now FIVE economic-history-related starter packs, listed in order of their emergence...:
EH1 @benmschneider.bsky.social
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EH2 @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Historical Political Economy @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past. When? June 12-13, 2025. Where? València (Spain). Keynotes: Luigi Pascali and Bruno Caprettini #EconSky #Econhist
Updated work (with @ggabbuti.bsky.social) on "Wars, Depression, and Fascism: Income Inequality in Italy, 1900-1950" is now available in EHV-wp series www.ehvalencia.es/wp-content/u... #income #inequality #dynamic social tables# Wars #Depression #Fascism
