SEMINARIS 2013

 

Nikola Koepke (Universitat de Barcelona)
"What do the bones tell us? The very long-run Evolution of the human Well-Being in Europe."

José Peres-Cajías (Universitat de Barcelona)
"The expansion of mass education in Bolivia: did the Revolution overcome the colonial legacy?"

Lei Shi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
"La segmentación del mercado laboral y la desigualdad de los inmigrantes en Shanghai (1927-1937)." 

Francesco Boldizzoni (Università di Torino)
"La pobreza de Clio: conversación sobre la historia económica."

Samuel Garrido (Universitat Jaume I)
"Plenty of trust, not much cooperation. Social capital and collective action in early twentieth century eastern Spain."

Gabriele Cappelli (European University Institute and London School of Economics)
"Escaping from a human capital trap? Italy’s regions and the move to centralized primary schooling, 1861-1936."

Deirdre McCloskey (University of Illinois at Chicago)
"What Use is an Economist’s Economic History?"

Héctor García Montero (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Nivel de vida biológico y desigualdad en la España de fines del Setecientos. La España interior en el espejo europeo ."

Anna Missiaia (London School of Economics)
"Market vs. Endowment: Explaining Early Industrial Location in Italy (1871-1911)."

 

SEMINARIS 2012

 

Nikola Koepke (Universitat de Barcelona)
"Heights in pre-industrial Europe."

Cristián Ducoing Ruiz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Capital Formation in Machinery and Industrialization. Chile 1830–1938."

Regina Grafe (Northwestern University)
"Distant Tyranny: Why Spain Fell Behind in the Early Modern Period." 

Julio Martínez Galarraga (Universitat de València) with Daniel Tirado
"Explaining the long-term patterns in regional income inequality in Spain." 

Lei Shi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
"La evolución de la migración interna en China durante el siglo XX."

Josep Pujol Andreu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

"In the black box of the technological agrarian change."

Pablo Martinelli (European University Institute)
"Land inequality and efficiency in Italian agriculture, 1930-1940."

Lluís Virós Pujolà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

"Empresa e innovación tecnológica en el franquismo, el caso de un distrito industrial (Manresa, 1939-1975)."

Veronica Binda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Las grandes empresas en Italia y España, 1950-2002."

 

SEMINARIS 2011

 

José Manuel Naredo
"Diagnosis de la crisis y perspectivas de cambio."

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."

Giuseppe Munda (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
"Measuring “quality of life” by using composite indicators: some methodological considerations."

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."

Giovanni Vecchi (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")
"Growing Equal? Living Standards, Inequality and Poverty in Italy, 1861-2011."

Alicia Gil Lázaro (Universidad de Sevilla)
"La repatriación asistida de inmigrantes españoles durante la crisis económica de la década de 1930. El caso de México."

Carles Brasó (Universitat Pompue Fabra)
"Shanghai y la industrialización algodonera en China."

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)."

 

SEMINARIS 2010

 

Davide Cantoni (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) with Noam Yuchtman
"Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution."

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."

Luis Fernando Fernández Alvarado (Escuela de Nutrición, Universidad de Costa Rica)
"Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional: una perspectiva desde Centroamérica."

Emanuele Felice (Department of Economics University of Siena)
"Italy’s regional inequality over the long run (1891-2001): linking indirect estimates with official figures, and implications."

Philip Scranton (Board of Governors Professor, History of Industry and Technology, Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
"Complexity and Contingency in Technological Innovation."

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."

Marco Armiero (Marie Curie Fellow at ICTA)
"Environmental History: A Manual of Instructions."