The papers use a common conceptual framework and a comparable data set to narrate the economic history of the 11 largest Latin American countries since 1960. The authors are country experts, who participated in numerous meetings over four years to discuss and receive feedback on their findings....

Conference topics: - Collective actions and public goods - Comparative studies of governance - Social capital, trust, and cultural norms - Human capital and economic development - Political elites and economic performance - History and persistence of economic growth The conference will include...

Money, Finance, and Capital is the theme of the 2018 Business History Conference meeting. The theme of the 2018 BHC conference is designed to encourage contributions from a variety of approaches to historical research on the themes of money, finance, and capital, covering a broad range of...

Main topic: Debt Sustainability. The workshop aims to bring together economic historians and macroeconomists. Half of the sessions will be devoted to general topics at the intersection of macroeconomics and economic history, while the other half will focus on debt sustainability as one of the...