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Seminars Unitat d'Història Econòmica

2012   top

June 14th, 2012
Julio Martínez Galarraga, Universitat de València
Explaining the long-term patterns in regional income inequality in Spain (with Daniel Tirado)
14:00h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

May 31st, 2012
Lei Shi, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
La evolución de la migración interna en China durante el siglo XX
14:00h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

May 3rd, 2012
Josep Pujol Andreu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
In the black box of the technological agrarian change
14:00h Seminar Room B3-123-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

March 8th, 2012
Pablo Martinelli, European University Institute
Land inequality and efficiency in Italian agriculture, 1930-1940
14:00h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

February 23rd, 2012
Lluís Virós Pujolà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Empresa e innovación tecnológica en el franquismo, el caso de un distrito industrial (Manresa, 1939-1975)
14:00h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

January 19th, 2012
Veronica Binda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Las grandes empresas en Italia y España, 1950-2002
14:00h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

2011   top

December 15th, 2011
José Manuel Naredo
Diagnosis de la crisis y perspectivas de cambio
12:00h Sala de Actos, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

November 24th, 2011
Carmen Sarasúa García, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
La actividad económica cuando se tiene en cuenta el trabajo de las mujeres: las manufacturas textiles en la España del siglo XVIII
14:00h Seminar Room B3-123-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

November 10th, 2011
Giuseppe Munda, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Measuring “quality of life” by using composite indicators: some methodological considerations. Open working session of the SALMON project
14:00h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

October 20th, 2011
Mauricio Drelichman (with Hans-Joachim Voth), University of British Columbia y Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Risk sharing with the monarch: contingent debt and excusable default in the Age of Philip II, 1556-1598
14:00h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

June 23rd, 2011
Giovanni Vecchi, Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Growing Equal? Living Standards, Inequality and Poverty in Italy, 1861-2011
11:30h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History

February 24th, 2011
Alicia Gil Lázaro, Departamento de Economía e Historia Económica, Universidad de Sevilla
La repatriación asistida de inmigrantes españoles durante la crisis económica de la década de 1930. El caso de México
11:30h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History
Abstract here

February 10th, 2011
Carles Brasó, Departamento de Economía y Empresa, Universitat Pompue Fabra
Shanghai y la industrialización algodonera en China
11:30h Seminar Room B3-112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History
PhD Thesis here

January 26th, 2011
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo (University of Leicester) and J. Carles Maixé-Altés (Universidade de A Coruña)
Managing technological change by committee: Adoption of computers in Spanish and British savings banks (circa 1960-1988)
11:30h Seminar Room B3-123-B, Department of Economics and Economic History
Paper here

2010   top

November 4th, 2010
Davide Cantoni, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (with Noam Yuchtman)
Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
11:30h Room B3-123-B, Department of Economics and Economic History
Download the working paper here

October 27th, 2010
Leonardo Weller, PhD candidate London School of Economics and UPF visiting lecturer
What is Worst, Trade Crisis or Revolution? Foreign Creditors, Sovereign Debt and Bailouts in Brazil and Mexico, 1913-14
10:30h Room B3-123-B, Department of Economics and Economic History
Download the working paper here

September 16th, 2010
Luis Fernando Fernández Alvarado, Escuela de Nutrición, Universidad de Costa Rica
Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional: una perspectiva desde Centroamérica
15:00h Seminar Room A, Faculty of Economics

June 1st, 2010
Emanuele Felice, Department of Economics University of Siena, Italy
Italy’s regional inequality over the long run (1891-2001): linking indirect estimates with official figures, and implications
15:00h Seminar Room B3-112C
Download the working paper here

May 27th, 2010
Philip Scranton, Board of Governors Professor, History of Industry and Technology, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Complexity and Contingency in Technological Innovation

May 25th, 2010
Philip Scranton, Board of Governors Professor, History of Industry and Technology, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Reimagining Business History for the 21st Century and
Conceptual and Theoretical Resources for Business History

May 11th, 2010
Marco Armiero, Marie Curie Fellow at ICTA
Environmental History: A Manual of Instructions"
Download the presentation here, the announcing flyer here, reading one here, and reading two here