Webinar: Towards a new history of financial crises? What we can (not yet) learn from the past

A Webinar of the Dutch-Belgian Society of Eighteenth-century Studies October 15, 13h-14h Amsterdam time 7:00 New York; 12:00 London; 13:00 Amsterdam; 20:00 Tokyo Precisely 300 years ago, the world experienced the very first international financial crisis. In 1720, a financial boom and bust raged from France, England and the Netherlands through Europe and the world....

New history of finance publication: Boom, Bust, and Beyond. New Perspectives on the 1720 Stock Market Bubble

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...

Coronavirus update: deadline CFP for the DBSECS Conference extended to 15 May 2020

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...

New volume: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

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,...

Blog by Electra Ferriello (Yale University) on ‘Looking Back 300 Years at the South Sea Bubble of 1720’

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

CFP: The History and Future of the Moral Economy

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,...

CFP: Making Sense of Finance in the Long Eighteenth Century

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...

CFP: Finance & Migration

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...

CFP: Photography Collections of Financial Companies II

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...

Conference: Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0

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...

JustMoney.org is live!

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...

Workshop: Eighth CEPR Economic History Symposium

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...