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Francesca Carnevali Prize 2022
The Associazione per la Storia Economica (ASE) is happy to announce the 2022 edition of the Francesca Carnevali Prize for young economic historians awarded to the best Bachelor and Master of Science thesis in economic history, dedicated to the memory of Francesca Carnevali (1964-2013).
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Συνέδρια
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CfP: "Deindustrialization and Reindustrialization Re-Connected. Comparing Developments in the Global South and the Global North from the 1970s to the Present Day", 31 May – 3 June 2023, University of Vienna
Studies of deindustrialization in different parts of the world have pointed out that deindustrialization was often connected in intricate ways with forms of reindustrialization. Most obviously and commonly, deindustrialization at one particular place implicated industrialization somewhere else, often far removed from the place that industry had been located before deindustrialization hit. Sometimes, however, industries did not move all that far. And sometimes, the transformations associated with deindustrialization did not lead to complete devastation of the industrial cores and the abandonment of urban environments – a process most often associated with the rust belt of the United States and centers of heavy industry in formerly socialist countries. Even there one can argue that deindustrialization went hand in hand with economic transformations that led, in certain parts, to examples of reindustrialization. At the same time, optimistic predictions about a surge in manufacturing in the Global South because of the relocation of capital from the North thanks to an abundant supply of cheap labor and natural resources, and thanks to trade liberalization failed to materialize. The (South) East Asian ‘tiger’ model appears to be not so easily replicable.
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CfP: "Business and International Order" - ECOINT Workshop, 27-28 October 2022, European University Institute, Florence
International organizations are not simply the realm of bureaucrats, diplomats and statesmen. For much of the 20th century, business actors have taken important international roles, both officially and unofficially. Recent work has shown for example that bankers and financiers took key roles in the League of Nations’ Economic and Finance Committee; the International Chamber of Commerce was established in the name of business internationalism, and as a shadow bureaucracy for intergovernmental organisations; in the second half of the 20th century, the United Nations actively sought the involvement of businessmen in the promotion and funding of its programs. The examples are many. Historians are exploring the ways in which neoliberal international actors sought to use the UN, the World Bank, and the IMF to impose visions of a new ordoglobal order in the 1970s. Through the 20th century, business actors of many kinds have seen in international organisations the means to different ends, from peace through the distribution of wealth, to the regulation and control of the world economy, whether through primary commodity controls and wealth redistribution schemes to international business cartels.
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CfP: International Conference "Insecurity in the Age of Labour Formalisation: Informal Work in Europe, ca. 1870–1970", 31 August – 2 September 2023, University of Bern, Switzerland
Free wage labour is commonly presented as the focus, if not the very core, of the history of labour in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is typically placed both on the rise of free wage labour in the 19th century and on the first labour and social legislation of the late 19th century, which laid the foundations in various European nation states for the regulation of formal labour that is still in force today. We also hear much about how these legal and social models of gainful employment were consolidated throughout Europe over the course of the 20th century until they were thrown into prolonged crisis: in Western Europe in the 1970s; in Eastern Europe somewhat later. The overriding impression is thus of an era of labour formalisation and protection lasting roughly from 1870 to at least 1970. The conference aims to challenge this narrative by focusing on multiple forms and fields of informal work.
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The John E. Rovensky Fellowships in U.S. Business or Economic History (2022-2023)
The University of Illinois Foundation announces the 2022-2023 John Rovensky Fellowships. Two $10,200 fellowships will be awarded for doctoral students writing their dissertations in U.S. business or economic history. The fellowships are available largely through the generosity of the late John E. Rovensky and are administered by the University of Illinois Foundation. Awardees may use the fellowship concurrently with other funding sources, including grants or teaching assignments.
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Νέες Εκδόσεις
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The Mismeasure of Progress. Economic Growth and Its Critics
Stephen J. Macekura (2020) Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that endless economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, is not only possible but actually essential for the flourishing of civilization remains a powerful policy goal and aspiration for many. In The Mismeasure of Progress, Stephen J. Macekura exposes a historical road not taken, illuminating the stories of the activists, intellectuals, and other leaders who long argued that GDP growth was not all it was cracked up to be.
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Η «άδηλος» ιστορία του ιατροφιλόσοφου Ευσταθίου. Επιστήμη και νεωτερικές ιδέες στη νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη του όψιμου Διαφωτισμού
Ίλια Χατζηπαναγιώτη-Sangmeister (2021) «Ἄδηλος ἡμῖν ἡ ἱστορία τοῦ ἀνδρός», έγραφε ο Γεώργιος Ζαβίρας για τον Ευστάθιο Αθανασίου (1766-1831) στο κατώφλι του 19ου αιώνα, όταν συνέτασσε το πρώτο εγχειρίδιο νεοελληνικής προσωπογραφίας. Σήμερα, η ιστορία του τυρναβίτη ιατροφιλόσοφου αναδύεται μέσα από την αλληλογραφία του με τον βιβλιοπώλη Καρλ Σβέτσκε και άλλες πηγές. Ανασυστήνονται οι σπουδές του στη Χάλλη, στα χρόνια μιας επιστημολογικής ανασυγκρότησης της ιατρικής, η μύησή του στον τεκτονισμό και η υιοθέτηση εκ μέρους του ιδεών του Διαφωτισμού και της Γαλλικής Επανάστασης, αλλά και η ζωή του στο Ιάσιο, όπου συμμετείχε σε μια ομάδα δημοκρατικών, εντάχθηκε στην τοπική ελίτ, ίδρυσε με άλλους αστούς ένα ελληνικό τυπογραφείο, συγκρότησε μια από τις μεγαλύτερες ιδιωτικές βιβλιοθήκες στα Βαλκάνια, μυήθηκε στη Φιλική Εταιρεία, και πέθανε σε μια επιδημία χολέρας το 1831.
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Les Réparations dans l’Histoire. Cultures techniques et savoir-faire dans la longue durée
Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Gianenrico Bernasconi, Guillaume Carnino, Olivier Raveux (dir.) (2021) L’histoire des réparations participe d’un courant fort de l’histoire des techniques, un courant empirique et matériel, favorisant l’étude du continuum des usages, des appropriations, des adaptations longtemps ignorés des récits du progrès technique. Histoire des usages mais aussi des difficultés d’usage, l’histoire des réparations révèle les dimensions constitutives des techniques, indissociables de la résolution des contraintes. Elle donne accès à la texture des techniques et à la subtilité des savoir-faire qu’aucun traité ne peut restituer. Considérer les objets comme réparables, c’est reconnaître leur technicité, c’est leur accorder une considération qui contraste avec le consumérisme et l’obsolescence programmée. Même au coeur des processus électroniques se nichent des savoir-faire incorporés complexes, ciments culturels de milieux professionnels établis.
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