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Letture:Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (XIII-XVIII secolo), a cura di Angela Orlandi
Questo volume esamina la gestione del rischio e l’insolvenza in Europa dal XIII al XVIII secolo, esplorando la relazione tra norme giuridiche e pratiche quotidiane. L’indagine si estende oltre i mercanti per includere produttori e proprietari terrieri, mettendo in relazione agricoltura, manifattura e finanza. Al centro dello studio vi sono i quadri istituzionali e le…
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Letture: Monetary and Non-Monetary Payment Systems. Forms and Practices in Europe and the Colonial World from 14th to 20th Century, a editors Giuseppe De Luca e Marina Romani
Il volume esplora i principali contesti in cui operava la circolazione monetaria e offre un’interessante gamma di casi di studio. Il contesto principale è rappresentato dalla serie di sfide associate al denaro contante nel periodo preindustriale. Trattando temi come la lenta circolazione delle monete, il rischio di svalutazione, il taglio delle monete, le prime forme…
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CfP: Datafication & interoperability in historical archives (deadline 31 December 2025)
Milan, Italy, 11 june 2026 Financial and business archives are undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. As institutions increasingly digitize their holdings, new opportunities for datafication, interoperability, and cross-institutional research are emerging. At the same time, these opportunities bring complex technical, methodological, and ethical challenges—especially concerning data quality, metadata standards, and long-term preservation. The European…
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CfP: Channeling Middle-Class Savings, 1850-1940 (deadline 5 gennaio 2026)
Antwerp, 29-30 June 2026 In June 2026 the University of Antwerp and the Paris School of Economics host a workshop exploring the investment of middle-class savings between the second half of the nineteenth-century and the Second World War.We are looking for papers that deal with the expansion of savings banks and other financial institutions competing…
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CfP: “Women, Money & Markets. Crisis & Resilience (1650-1950)” (deadline 1 dicembre 2025)
The Foundling Museum, London (U.K.), Friday & Saturday, June 12-13, 2026 Overview We invite submissions for our 9th interdisciplinary conference exploring how women’s interactions with money, markets, and finance have shaped, and been shaped by, economic crises, financial literacy practices, and strategies for resilience across time and borders. This year, we especially welcome reflections on…
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Letture: Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization, di Harold James
Nel volume lo storico dell’economia Harold James presenta una nuova prospettiva sulle crisi finanziarie, suddividendole in crisi “buone”, che alla fine espandono i mercati e la globalizzazione, e crisi “cattive”, che portano a un mondo più piccolo e meno prospero. Esaminando sette momenti cruciali della storia finanziaria – dalla depressione degli anni 1840 alla Grande…
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CfP: Workshop “Charity Professionals and Charity Governance (XV-XIX centuries)” (deadline 16 marzo 2025)
Il Centro studi sui Monti di Pietà e sul credito solidaristico, in collaborazione con l’Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea (ISEM) del CNR, con la Fondazione Banco di Napoli, con l’Universität Graz e con il sostegno della Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, organizza il workshop Charity Professionals and Charity Governance (XV-XIX centuries), che si…
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CfP: WEHC Session “International central bank cooperation” (deadline 23 dicembre 2024)
Pre conference at Banque de France 11 to 12 March 2024 and session at the WEHC in Lund, 28 July to 1 August 2025 International central bank cooperation is a politically sensitive issue, which is why official accounts of international central bank cooperation outside more formal bodies such as the BIS and the IMF are…
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CfP: Workshop on “Money as A Value System”
Banque de France, Paris, 10 March 2025 In this interdisciplinary project, we explore alternative ways of viewing money and try to integrate conceptual framework of different views on money. To achieve this goal, we examine the history of money as “a system to share/communicate the value of things”. To launch this project, we are planning…
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CfP: 12th CEPR Economic History Symposium (deadline 1 dicembre 2024)
CEPR and the Study Center Gerzensee invite you to submit a paper proposal or to express your interest in attending the twelfth CEPR Economic History Symposium, which will take place in Gerzensee, Switzerland, 24-25 April 2025. The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers in the field. Papers are being sought on topics including, but…
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