r/EconomicHistory • u/Tiluf • 2h ago

Blog The Utility Demon, Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility and The Advertisement based Business Model

r/EconomicHistory • u/albacore_futures • 10h ago

Video Kings and Generals - Hansa - Northern Silk Road

r/EconomicHistory • u/moonlitcandy • 23h ago

Question Where to start studying economics war/conflict and peace?

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 20h ago

Blog Anton Howes: Other than the cod of Newfoundland’s coast, England's trans-Atlantic trades were still to come in 1638. English bought American goods indirectly from Portugal and Spain. Older Atlantic imports of Moroccan sugar and Guinean gold were in decline (Age of Invention, July 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 1d ago

Video During the height of Tulipmania of 1636-37, a single bulb sold for more than 10 times the annual salary of a skilled craftsman (TED Ed, May 2014)

r/EconomicHistory • u/WSB_exiles • 1d ago

Question Looking for source on US wage data (1970-) *not* household.

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 2d ago

Podcast Eric Schneider: Data from the London Foundling Hospital between 1892 and 1919 suggests that undernutrition exacerbates the severity of measles among children. (CEPR, August 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/Genedide • 3d ago

Question What caused the Great Depression?

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 3d ago

Journal Article Carlo Edoardo Altamura: Latin America's military regimes became heavily dependent on capital provided by international banks in the 1970s. When the 1982 debt crisis severed these links, they aggravated the economic crisis but also fostered democratic change. (Business History Review, July 2020)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 4d ago

Working Paper Pinochet's rule led to a large contraction in college enrollments. Chileans who reached college age shortly after the 1973 coup experienced worse labor market outcomes throughout their life cycle and struggled to climb up the socioeconomic ladder. (Maria Angelica Bautista, et al. August 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 5d ago

Blog Local governments have made efforts to revive commerce in neglected Black neighborhoods for decades. However, historically Black communities often lack access to resources and opportunities made available (ProPublica, December 2020)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 6d ago

Blog Anton Howes: Despite their late arrival, the Dutch invested more heavily in the Indian Ocean trade than their European counterparts. This was out of necessity because less-defensible Dutch ships had been pushed out of European trade routes (Age of Invention, August 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 7d ago

Journal Article Miikka Voutilainen: The Finnish famine of the 1860s show that even a pre-industrial famine affecting an impoverished society was meaningfully defined by the distribution of incomes. (Economic History Review, August 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/Genedide • 8d ago

Editorial When America Had a Moral Panic Over Inflation

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 8d ago

Video Between 1757 and 1947, India's share of the world's economy fell from 23% to 4. The destruction of India's textile industry as it was coerced into becoming a captured market for British exports is partly responsible for this decline (2021) [10:05]

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 9d ago

EH in the News The Chinese community in Mississippi was founded through a scheme by a group of plantation owners who tried to replace Republican-voting Black labor. But Chinese laborers refused the poor working conditions and carved out a role catering to the Black community. (NY Times, August 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/laundry_writer • 10d ago

Discussion The Imaginary Tragedy of the Hypothetical Commons

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 10d ago

Journal Article Sébastien Guex: France's adoption of a progressive inheritance tax in 1901 and its retaliation against Swiss banks for their role in tax evasion prompted the Swiss government to develop a strategy aimed at occupying a leading position in international tax evasion (Business History Review, June 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 11d ago

Blog Kedrosky: The case of pre-industrial England suggests that London needed an outside stimulus to keep the feedback mechanism between urban agglomeration and agricultural productivity positive. (Economic History Research, August 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/Cooperativism62 • 12d ago

Discussion Why are economics and finance departments separated?

r/EconomicHistory • u/Genedide • 12d ago

Video The History of History | The Cynical Historian

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 12d ago

Podcast Duncan Weldon: Most British governments have been buffeted by the economy, but very few prime ministers have meaningfully changed it. Exceptions include Robert Peel, Lloyd George, Clement Attlee, and Margaret Thatcher - with special consideration to Edward Heath (New Statesman, August 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 13d ago

Blog Rapid industrial development in late Imperial Russia competed with local peasants for land and other agricultural inputs but did not provide them with commensurate employment opportunities compensating for adverse effects on subsistence farming, provoking peasant unrest (Broadstreet, August 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 14d ago

Editorial Erika Bsumek, James Sidbury: The United States has a tradition of carrying out social transformation through transportation projects – with productive consequences for some and often disastrous effects on others. (Conversation, June 2021)

r/EconomicHistory • u/yonkon • 15d ago

Journal Article New data show that many economies in Sub-Saharan Africa had levels of per capita income that were above subsistence by the early twentieth century, on a par with the largest economies in Asia until the 1980s. (S. Broadberry, L. Gardner, August 2021)