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t antiquity middle ages 1500 1815 1815 1870 1870 1914 1914 1945 1945 present search for tag archives development new book europe s poison pill 1 01 00 00 may 01 00 00 2026 1945 present development economics europe growth history politics npalma my new book forthcoming with cambridge university press explores how cohesion policy is having unintended yet dismal consequences for the european union it is already available for preorder at amazon barnes noble or your favorite bookseller the book covers the origins and consequences of this policy arguing that it is a central cause of the european union s current economic and political difficulties reforming this policy must be seen as central for the survival and continued prosperity of the european union this is the cover except my affiliation will be changed to the hamilton school at university of florida since i am moving there and the book will be coming out in september palma provides a powerful critique of europe s cohesion program which only lead perversely to further divergence between leading and lagging regions the book argues vigorously that europe should get back to its knitting it should focus on completing the internal market and devote its scarce budgetary resources to high priorities which now include external security and defense barry eichengreen george c pardee and helen n pardee chair and distinguished professor of economics and political science university of california berkeley designed to bring europe closer cohesion funds have pushed european countries further apart palma shows how they distorted incentives hollowed out institutions and stalled real convergence this superb book is a forceful invitation to rethink a policy most european economists have long taken for granted jesús fernández villaverde howard marks presidential professor of economics university of pennsylvania europe s poison pill offers a bold rethink of europe s cohesion funds through the lens of the natural resources curse palma s provocative arguments identify unintended consequences hidden costs and ignite debates on better policies for europe s future vítor gaspar former director of the fiscal affairs department of the international monetary fund the european union is in a mess i know it you know it mario draghi knows it to extricate it we need clear analysis and specific actionable policy proposals this penetrating book is a very good place to start james a robinson university professor university of chicago and recipient of the 2024 sveriges riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of alfred nobel leave a comment how a nation was born brazilian economic growth 1574 1920 30 30 00 00 march 30 00 00 2026 1500 1815 1815 1870 1870 1914 1914 1945 macroeconomics america brazil development growth npalma guilherme lambais and i recently released this paper it comes out in the sequence of this one which is related but different the folha de s paulo reported on it thanks rafael cariello leave a comment call for papers global monetary history and policy lessons 17 17 00 00 november 17 00 00 2025 conferences and call for papers development growth npalma arthur lewis lab conference 8 conference title global monetary history and policy lessons to take place at the university of manchester on may 15 2026 this conference is part of the cepr economic history programme and has financial support from the british academy and the leverhulme trust jointly organized by nuno palma university of manchester and hiroki shin university of birmingham with support from katie monaghan and jiaqi yao keynote by nathan sussman geneva graduate institute policy session with jagjit s chadha university of cambridge submissions are welcome apply by sending a paper proposal title and abstract up to 300 words by email to nuno palma and hiroki shin deadline to apply february 2 2026 leave a comment program for the frontiers of comparative development in historical perspective conference 1 01 00 00 october 01 00 00 2025 conferences and call for papers development npalma the program for this arthur lewis lab conference previously announced here is now available it will take place at the university of manchester on nov 13 14 2025 the conference will have 2 days the first will be a workshop with presentations by phd students and postdocs and the second will be composed of presentations by senior researchers faculty members this conference is offline only and has been organized by yuzuru kumon and myself with the help of jiaqi yao this conference is part of the cepr economic history programme and has financial support from the hallsworth fund at the university of manchester nov 13 graduate workshop each presents for 20 minutes followed by a discussant presenting for 5 and another 5 minutes for questions time will be strictly enforced 9 00 9 30 paper 1 yuchen lin university of warwick the u s origins of chinese science discussant xizi luo university of manchester 9 30 10 00 paper 2 xiaoyun tang king s college london panic without failure public anxiety in 1930s china dissussant xiaobing wang university of manchester 10 00 10 30 paper 3 yaroslav prokhorskoi essec beneath the ban of abortion evidence from the ussr with sultan mehmood and hosny zoaby discussant harry pickard newcastle university 10 30 11 00 coffee break 11 00 11 30 paper 4 emiliano salas aron university of bueno aires between structural changes and the international market flows rural inequality in argentina during the first globalization 1895 1914 discussant barry eichengreen uc berkeley 11 30 12 00 paper 5 felix schaff utrecht university before the u curve intra family roots of preindustrial gender inequality with sheilagh ogilvie discussant yuzuru kumon university of manchester 12 00 12 30 paper 6 florentine friedrich lse in the crossfire the consequences of church state competition in 19th france discussant brian varian newcastle university 12 30 14 00 lunch break 14 00 14 30 paper 7 ana laura catelén carlos iii are all business cycles alike a study of argentine large economic recessions in the long 20th century 1880 2020 with esteban alberto nicolini alessi discussant álvaro matias lusíada university 14 30 15 00 paper 8 cihang wan university of manchester faith medicine and fear plague and the uneven spread of missionary hospitals in china discussant james fenske university of warwick 15 00 15 30 coffee break 15 30 16 00 paper 9 eric wilhelm wabash college craft guilds city growth with noel johnson discussant k kivanc karaman bogaziçi university 16 00 to 18 00 free break 18 00 dinner at zouk nov 14 main conference day except for the keynote each presents for 30 minutes including questions it s up to you how much free time you leave for questions but we recommend leaving at least 5 minutes time will be strictly enforced 9 00 9 30 paper 1 sabrina di addario bank of italy women inventors the legacy of medieval guilds with michela giorcelli and agata maida 9 30 10 00 paper 2 yuzuru kumon university of manchester gendered labor and structural transformation with erika igarashi 10 00 10 30 paper 3 guilherme lambais lusíada university african slavery and the reckoning of brazil with nuno palma 10 30 11 00 coffee break 11 00 11 30 paper 4 k kivanc karaman bogaziçi university global patterns of market integration from the early modern era to the twentieth century with yavuz selim kaçmaz 11 30 12 00 paper 5 james fenske university of warwick a century of language barriers to migration in india with latika chaudhary and yannick dupraz 12 00 12 30 paper 6 xizi luo university of manchester enlightenment under autocracy the origins of liberalism in china with melanie xue 12 30 14 00 lunch break 14 00 15 00 keynote barry eichengreen uc berkeley international currencies past present and future 15 00 15 30 coffee break 15 30 16 00 paper 7 pim de zwart wageningen university the sweet and bitter divide commodity exports and wage inequality in colonial java with mark hup 16 00 16 30 paper 8 omer moav university of warwick can a grain of patience trigger cooperation the role of an outside option with luigi pascali ady pauzner 16 30 17 00 paper 9 meng wu university of manchester the financial revolution in republican china the case of indirect issuance of banknotes 1905 1936 17 00 to 18 00 free break 18 00 drinks dinner at christie s including a musical jam saturday social programme for those interested there will be a visit to the quarry bank mill in styal leave a comment anatomy of a premodern state won the figuerola prize 12 12 00 00 september 12 00 00 2025 1500 1815 1815 1870 development europe state capacity npalma this paper by leonor f costa antónio henriques and yours truly recently published in the european review of economic history and previously referred to here was announced at the european historical economics society ehes congress in germany last week to have won the figuerola prize given by the ehes for the best article published in the european review of economic history in the previous two years leave a comment the cross of gold brazilian treasure and the decline of portugal 15 15 00 00 august 15 00 00 2025 1500 1815 america development education europe growth npalma the journal of economic history has now published this paper by davis kedrosky and me it is published in open acess and available at this link leave a comment the new economic history of brazil conference program available 9 09 00 00 june 09 00 00 2025 conferences and call for papers america brazil development growth npalma update photos of the event are available here here is the program for this conference previously announced here with generous support from the haddad foundation we re looking forward 09 50 10 00 welcome address álvaro matias director of the center for research in economics and comparative development ciedec and dean of the faculty of economic and business sciences fcee lusíada university of lisbon 10 00 11 00 keynote lecture breaking up is hard to do brazil debt seniority and the portuguese loan of 1823 william summerhill university of california los angeles 11 00 11 20 coffee break 11 20 12 10 paper 1 african slavery and the reckoning of brazil guilherme lambais lusíada university of lisbon and nuno palma university of manchester 12 10 13 30 lunch break 13 30 14 20 paper 2 mules old testament technology fiscal capacity and economic development in 19th century brazil rafael cariello universidade de são paulo 14 20 15 10 paper 3 birthweights and maternal infant health in early twentieth century brazil evidence from the hospital maternidade de são paulo daniel franken university of groningen fulbright u s scholar 15 10 15 30 coffee break 15 30 16 20 paper 4 protection in brazil 1950 1980 svante prado christopher absell and john lapidus university of gothenburg 16 20 17 10 paper 5 how a nation was born four centuries of brazilian economic growth in comparative perspective guilherme lambais lusíada university of lisbon and nuno palma university of manchester 17 10 19 00 free break 19 00 conference dinner leave a comment justices of the peace legal foundations of the industrial revolution 13 13 00 00 may 13 00 00 2025 1500 1815 1815 1870 development europe growth state capacity npalma how did local legal institutions power the british industrial revolution in a new working paper available here in open access tim besley dan bogart jonathan chapman and i show that justices of the peace jps magistrates acting locally were a quiet engine behind modern economic growth the paper is also available as a cepr discussion paper we often hear the state had little to do with britain s industrial revolution we argue otherwise using novel data we show that street level legal capacity via jps played a crucial role in enforcing property rights resolving disputes managing public goods jps were local elites usually unpaid but powerful tasked with matters from contract enforcement to infrastructure oversight their presence made legal systems more accessible faster cheaper especially in an age before a professional paid bureaucracy we find that counties with more jps in 1700 saw higher population growth faster urbanization greater economic diversification more infrastructure and innovation better human capital via apprenticeships crucially the location of jps in 1700 was not driven by anticipated growth meaning the effect is causal not just correlation in other words more jps better long term development outcomes jps helped towns capitalize on the industrial revolution industrial towns near coalfields grew faster with more jps jps helped enforce contracts settle disputes and foster trust and the effects appear gradually over time the choice of the outcome year is not critical the takeaway institutions also operate locally local legal actors even unpaid ones can shape economic trajectories in powerful ways the state was heavily involved with the first industrial revolution leave a comment new research on comparative development 9 09 00 00 april 09 00 00 2025 1500 1815 1870 1914 1914 1945 asia china development growth state capacity npalma i ve been too busy to even post new papers here as they come out or get published but will now share two recent lewis lab working paper releases for anyone interested state capacity and executive constraints in early modern europe with kivanç karaman and antónio henriques short abstract the prevailing view of europe s political history is that the rise of constrained governments and the increases in state capacity advanced hand in hand we reevaluate this perspective by constructing new historical indices for both we identify what made england historically distinctive its political system stood out for combining constrained government with high state capacity this rare combination helps explain the eventual take off of modern economic growth in england the century of state failure a fiscal history of china 1850 1949 with hanhui guan k kivanç karaman and zhiyin xu short abstract we investigate the fiscal trajectory of the chinese state from the late qing period to the foundation of the people s republic of china state capacity remained low throughout this long period preventing economic modernization the state s failure to monopolize coercive power was the main constraint to the building up of fiscal capacity china s failure to suppress its overlords and collect enough tax until the mid twentieth century opened the door to civil wars colonialism and japanese occupation which further erorded fiscal capacity leave a comment call for papers the new economic history of brazil 17 17 00 00 january 17 00 00 2025 conferences and call for papers america development growth npalma conference to be held at the lusíada university of lisbon date september 12 2025 conference title the new economic history of brazil location lusíada university of lisbon rua da junqueira 188 198 1349 001 lisboa note this conference is expected to take place offline only opening session cláudio ha...