The purpose of the 10th Conference of the SEEMHN is to gather scholars working on financial development (e.g. development of banks, central banks and financial markets) and economic development (e.g. growth and structural change) in Southeastern Europe to get new, challenging and exciting...

This workshop will focus on issues of both measurement and explanation, building on a number of themes where research is currently active, including (but not limited to): - Extending historical national accounts further back in time for the Nordic countries - Providing historical national...

The conference aims to bring together leading economists, political scientists and historians to debate a key tenet of modern development theory: the crucial link between the development of strong institutions and sustained economic growth. The primacy accorded to institutions by eminent...

The theme of crisis has been a ubiquitous analytical concept for historians from Marxist theories of structural change in society to anthropometric history. Different forms of crisis have been explored in nearly every strand of history, ranging from agrarian famines to epidemiological outbreaks,...

Referate: -"Der Zettel hier ist tausend Kronen wert" – Wie lässt sich die Inflationsgefahr bändigen? Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otmar Issing - "... durch Tausendkünstler schnell vertausendfacht"? Goethe und die Geldpolitik in Deutschland um 1800 Dr. Gerhard Müller - Under What Circumstances...

We welcome proposals in all aspects of "Population Cliometrics and Unified Growth Theory" covering a wide range of periods and countries.

Ist die weltweite Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise ein singuläres Ereignis? Nein, findet Werner Plumpe. Wirtschaftskrisen gehören zu unserer Wirtschaftsordnung. Vor allem die Krisen des 19. Jahrhunderts zeigen Parallelen zur aktuellen Lage. Welche Schlüsse lassen sich aus diesem Befund...

Ist die weltweite Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise ein singuläres Ereignis? Nein, findet Werner Plumpe. Wirtschaftskrisen gehören zu unserer Wirtschaftsordnung. Vor allem die Krisen des 19. Jahrhunderts zeigen Parallelen zur aktuellen Lage. Welche Schlüsse lassen sich aus diesem Befund...

Theme: Economic growth and development before 1900 Keynote speaker: Jan Luiten van Zanden, “The North Sea area and the origins of ‘modern economic growth’, 1200-1800” FRESH meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The meetings build on the concept...

We are pleased to announce the programme of this international workshop, bringing together historians interested in consumption and standards of living since the eighteenth century, whether from an economic, social or cultural perspective. Areas in which proposals would be welcome include: -...