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Oxford is looking for a Departmental Lecturer for next year! Come join our economic history community. Applications are due on May 27, feel free to reach out if you have any questions! history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/d…
Oxford is hiring a new statutory Professor of Economic History! Apply by May 25th, and feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or are thinking about whether this might be a good fit for you! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
Looking forward to this!
📢 Join us for the 10th Annual LEAP Lecture!
🗓 4 Nov 2025 | 🕔 17:00
📍 225 Schumann Building, Stellenbosch
🎙 Meredith Paker — “Understanding the Past with Machine Learning”
RSVP: [email protected]
#LEAPLecture #EconomicHistory #MachineLearning #Stellenbosch
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Three economic history Nobel Prizes in a row! Go economic history! Congratulations Joel!
(Perhaps more departments should reconsider letting economic history die???)
I'm excited to share that the next stage of my career will be back in Oxford! In January, I'll begin as Associate Professor of Economic and Social History, where I'll also be an Associate Member of the Department of Economics and a Fellow of All Souls.
history.ox.ac.uk/article/mer…
Can’t wait to share this work at Oxford on Wednesday! Come learn how we can use machine learning to help with the problem of scarce data in history
Next week @OxfordESH @mmpaker will give a paper nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-event… about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there
Amazing weekend with fantastic economic historians at Grinnell!!
Grinnell was delighted to host a liberal arts economic history conference this weekend organized by @mmpaker and colleagues. Scholars from liberal arts colleagues across the US came to present their research and connect on new methods and teaching in liberal arts environments!
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🌟 Webinar Announcement! 🌟
Topic: Predictive Modelling the Past: A New Machine Learning Method Applied to Seven Centuries of Wages Date: November 7
Time: 10 AM (HKT)
Speaker: @mmpaker from @GrinnellCollege
🔗 Register here: hku.zoom.us/webinar/register…
See you there!
#Webinar #MachineLearning #DataScience #HistoricalEconomics #PredictiveModeling #GrinnellCollege #EconomicHistory #QuantitativeHistory
@HKUniversity @HKUFBE @hkihss @QuantHistoryHKU
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New paper:
“(In-kind) Wages and labour relations in the Middle Ages: It’s not (all) about the money” with
@V_Delabastita and @GibbsSpike is now out in @EEH_editors.
The paper is open access and here is a summary 🧵 (1/16)
doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2024.1…
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For economic historians interested in wages and living standards this afternoon might be a bit of a treat. First up Joyce Burnette’s Paper has made some of the biggest inroads into what men’s wages really represent for many years. Answer: not what you thought.
ehs.org.uk/event/echr-worksh…
Next week ! For scholars interested in wages and real wages @EcHistSoc @LSEEcHist @OxfordESH @CamUniCampop @EconHistAssoc
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Call For Papers Submission Deadline Today!
The deadline for submitting 300-500 word Academic and New Researcher paper proposals for the 2025 EHS Conference, to be held at the University of Strathclyde, is today. For more info and to submit:
ehs.org.uk/conference/
Fantastic day talking about job quality and good work from economic, historical, sociological, and policy perspectives! Huge thanks to @benmschneider for organizing such a great conference at the beautiful Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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Workshop on Living Standards: Measurements and Debates
Presenters:
Joyce Burnette (Wabash University)
Meredith Paker (Grinnell College), Judy Stephenson (UCL), and Patrick Wallis (LSE)
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)
ehs.org.uk/event/echr-worksh…
I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to present and for all of the interest and feedback!
Session 3 closes with @mmpaker exploring the impacts of devaluation during the Great Depression
@cepr_org @TCD_SSP @hea_irl
#economics #econtwitter #NSRPproject #CEPR2024
✈️ Heading to London to present this latest joint work with @judyzara @phwallis for the first time — a new ML method for estimating long time series of wages, prices, etc. in history! history.ac.uk/events/predict…
Check out this blog post we wrote on our new working paper!
The end of the #goldstandard and the beginning of the recovery from the Great Depression
Jason Lennard @jason_lennard @LSEnews @LSEEcHist, Meredith Paker @mmpaker @GrinnellCollege
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It’s up!!
@mmpaker @phwallis we are online ! @EcHistSocReview doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13346 thanks to those who gave us the feedback to help propose nominal wage patterns and rigidities might be an indicator of imperfect competition (very 18C) as much as wage dispersion, inc @HubermanMichael
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That other Brexit, from the gold standard in 1931, decisively benefited Britain’s economy & started its recovery from the Great Depression
🔗 cepr.org/voxeu/columns/end-g… @voxeu @cepr_org @LSEnews @GrinnellCollege @B_Eichengreen @delong @SoumayaKeynes @alanbeattie
