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An Economic History of Europe

Materials, data, examples, debates

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Welcome to the EHE website!

This website is for students of economic history of Europe, their teachers, all the academics in the field, and all the people that share an interest in the economic history of Europe.

It aims to provide tools and materials for the study of the economic history of Europe.

This website is linked to the textbook An Economic History of Europe by Karl Gunnar Persson (Cambridge University Press, February 2010): see Support for teachers.

Click here to look at the new technology section (in progress).

In the Author section: Interview with Karl Gunnar Persson from the Cliometrics Society Newsletter, January 2013.

Maddison Project Database: a new synthesis of long-term economic growth in the world economy.

Angus Maddison's research into the development of GDP in the world economy during two millennia is a milestone in economic and historical scholarship. His dataset - a careful synthesis of recent research in this field - is among the most cited sources in economics and history.
A group of pupils and colleagues of Maddison therefore decided, after his passing away in 2010, to continue his work, and established the 'Maddison project' for that purpose. Their work has now resulted in an update of the dataset, which incorporates much of the latest research in this field, and presents new estimates - based on Maddison's methodology - of economic growth in the world economic between AD 1 and 2010.

Here links to:

Source: EH.net.

In the Data page: Swedish Historical National Accounts 1560-2010, released in 2012 by Lennart Schön and Olle Krantz.

Updates for CHAPTER 8 (.PDF):
Two US senators who made protectionism look counterproductive: Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley.
In 1930, the Smoot-Hawley tariffs increased already high US tariffs to record levels. The timing of the legislation suggests that it was a response to the Great Depression, but it was not. It was rather the final act in a drift towards higher tariffs introduced by the Republican administration in the early 1920s. In a longer perspective it was a return to the tariff policy of the 19th century.
Look for more updates in UPDATES AND SUPPLEMENTS.

In the Data page: New section Focus on Italy, with link to Paolo Malanima's webpage and available datasets

Bruce Campbell's database Three Centuries of English Crop Yields, 1211-1491.

Look at Martin Wolf's Economists' Forum where current economic problems are discussed often in light of the historical record.

Download Power Point of Lecture 10 in the Support For Teachers section.

New link to the Quality of Government (QoG) dataset - Gothenburg University.

Pre-industrial Europe: Malthusian stagnation or early growth? Look at G. Clark's and K. G. Persson's recent papers!
This and other debates in the Topics section.

Available for download - Updated version of Lecture 1.

The "Videos" section provides links to lectures of leading scholars in the field.

 
 

  
 

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