The Economic History Review

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The Economic History Society Annual Conference 2012

St Catherine's College, University of Oxford
30th March - 1st April

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The Tawney Memorial Lectures

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Tawney Lecture 2011
Joachim Voth
Debt, Default and Empire: State Capacity and Economic Development in England and Spain in the Early Modern Period

The Tawney Memorial Lectures are all available online from 2007 - watch the videos or read the articles online.

T.S. Ashton Prize - Winning Article Announced

Gentlemanly capitalism revisited: a case study of the underpricing of IPOs on the London Stock Exchange 1946-86
David Chambers (University of Cambridge)
Volume 62, Issue s1, (February 2009)

The T.S. Ashton Prize, established with funds donated by the late Professor T.S. Ashton (1889-1968), is awarded biennially to the author of the best article accepted for publication in the Economic History Review in the previous two calendar years, who is within five years of receipt of her/his PhD or has no previous publication in the field of economic and/or social history, or a closely related field.

The following highlights have been selected as particularly topical or indicative of the scope of the journal:

Contract enforcement, institutions, and social capital: the Maghribi traders reappraised
JEREMY EDWARDS, SHEILAGH OGILVIE
A critical response to this article will be published in early 2012

The rise and decline of European parliaments, 1188–1789
JAN LUITEN VAN ZANDEN, ELTJO BURINGH, MAARTEN BOSKER

The Economic History Review covers a wide range of topics including: Economics, Business, Social, Finance, Political and Women. You can search the complete contents from 1927 onwards through The Economic History Cumulative Index 1927 - 1995.

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