Patrick Karl O’Brien
spent his career at the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford and as Director of the Institute of Historical Research, London University. He has published and edited, with editorial essays, twenty books. He has also published over 100 essays in edited volumes and academic journals.
Loïc Charles
is Professor in Economics at the University of Paris 8 Saint-Denis and fellow-researcher at the Institut National d’études démographiques. His research area is economic history and history of economics knowledge. His latest research encompasses such themes as the history of 18th century French external trade, the physiocratic school and more generally the history of French 18th century political economy as well as the history of visualisation in social science (1900–1945).
Guillaume Daudin
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Mark Dincecco
is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He specializes in historical political economy and the political economy of development. He is the author of Political Transformations and Public Finances: Europe, 1650–1913 (Cambridge 2011) and State Capacity and Economic Development: Present and Past (Cambridge 2017). His most recent book is From Warfare to Wealth: The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe, coauthored with Massimiliano Onorato (Cambridge 2017). This book won the 2018 William H. Riker Best Book Award.
is currently professor of Economic History at New York University Abu Dhabi. He has been professor of Economic History at the European University Institute and at the University of Pisa. He has published An Economic History of the Silk Industry, 1800–1938 (Cambridge 1997), The Economic Development of Italy, with Jon Cohen (Cambridge 2000), Feeding the World: An Economic History of World Agriculture (Princeton 2005), edited the Handbook of Historical Economics, with Alberto Bisin (Elsevier 2021), and has written extensively on world trade, globalization, and European market integration, as well as on many issues in Italian economic history.
Johan Joor
studied Economic and Social History (University of Amsterdam). He is a widely known specialist on the Napoleonic period in Holland. He is an independent researcher, was fellow at the International Institute of Social History and worked, until recently, at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands on a project on the consequences of the Continental System for Rotterdam. His PhD-thesis De Adelaar en het Lam (‘The Eagle and the Lamb’) (2000) dealt with the anti-regime protests during these years. With Katherine Aaslestad he edited Revisiting Napoleon’s Continental System: Local, Regional and European Experiences (2015).
Rita Martins de Sousa
has a B.A. in Economics and a PhD in Economic and Social History. She is a Senior Associate Professor at iseg – Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon, and a researcher member of the Office of Economic and Social History (ghes).
She has participated in several projects in Economic History and has published mainly in the domain of Monetary History.
Silvia Marzagalli
graduated at the European University Institute with a dissertation on port cities in the Napoleonic era, and was consequently recruited at the University of Bordeaux. She is presently full professor of Early Modern History at the University Côte d’Azur and honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Her main research interests concern eighteenth-century maritime trade and shipping in the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds, notably the reorganization of commercial and merchant networks in wartime. She is currently pi of Portic, a digital humanities program aiming at criss-crossing
Cristina Moreira
has a PhD in Economics and is a member of the Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management and of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences of Minho University.
She is an assistant professor of Economics and specializes in History of the Portuguese trade and the impacts of war. She is the main researcher in several projects on economic history.
She has supervised several masters’ and doctorates’ thesis and has several papers indexed in isi and Scopus. Her publications, both nationally and internationally, have focused particularly on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Ulrich Pfister
received his PhD at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, in 1984 and has been professor of social and economic history at the University of Münster, Germany, since 1996. He has published on regional proto-industries, demographic history, history of religion, and agrarian history. His recent work focuses on the long-run development of the German economy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Leandro Prados-de-la-Escosura
D. Phil. Modern History (Oxford) and Ph.D. Economics (Complutense, Madrid), is Professor of Economic History (Universidad Carlos iii). He has taught at Georgetown University (Prince of Asturias Professor) and ucsd. He has been Honorary Maddison Chair (Groningen) Leverhulme Professorial Fellow at the lse, and Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. He has published on long-run growth in Spain, Latin American since independence, economic freedom, and human development in the world. His latest book is Spanish Economic Growth, 1850–2015 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017). His new book Human Development in the Modern World will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
Jaime Reis
has a B.A. and a D. Phil. from Oxford University and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has taught at Vanderbilt, Leicester and Glasgow Universities, the European University Institute, and nova sbe (Lisbon). He retired as Research Professor from the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisbon.
Carlos Santiago-Caballero
D. Phil Economic History (lse), is Associate Professor of Economic History (Universidad Carlos iii). His research interests have focused on preindustrial economic inequality, agrarian history, anthropometry, and long run economic growth. His work has been published in academic outlets like Explorations in Economic History, European Review of Economic History, Revista de Historia Económica, Cliometrica, Cambridge University Press or Routledge. His most recent work focuses on brain drainage in the age of mass migrations, the effects of modernisation in social mobility, and the rise of capitalism in Spain.
Peter M. Solar
is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is currently affiliated with cerec at the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles and the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. His research deals mainly with the economic history of Ireland and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Recently, he has written on the 1799–1801 subsistence crisis in Ireland, the improvement of cotton spinning machinery and several aspects of British maritime history.
Marjolein ’t Hart
is Senior Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, and Professor of the History of State Formation in Global Perspective at vu University Amsterdam. She held positions at various universities and in various disciplines (history, sociology, political sciences). Her current research interests focus on the social and economic aspects of warfare, revolution and state formation. She is the author of, among others, The Dutch Wars of Independence. War and commerce in the Netherlands 1570–1680 (2014) and, with others, of A Financial History of the Netherlands (1997).