NEXT JOINT CENTRE SEMINAR
29 November 2023
12pm (EST) CGIS S-030 (Harvard) or Zoom
Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins)
The Information Superhighway, the Electronic Frontier, and the Political Economy of the Early Internet

NEXT CORE SEMINAR
30 November 2023
Martin Daunton (Cambridge)
The economic government of the world 1933-2023

David Todd, Director of the CHE-Paris Centre, was awarded the 2023 Gyorgy Ranki Prize of the Economic History Association for the outstanding book on the Economic History of Europe, for his book A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. We congratulate him warmly.

The Harvard Center is pleased to introduce 1800 Histories. The project is an effort to understand the local circumstances of more than a thousand sites - the ultra-emitters of methane gas - that are of outsized importance in the causes of climate change.

Happy Three Hundredth Birthday to Adam Smith

The Joint Centre for History and Economics mourns the death of Sir Tony Wrigley, a dear friend of the Centre for more than thirty years. His work was of foundational importance to economic history, the history of economic ideas, and the history of population, energy and work. He was a Research Associate of the Cambridge Centre, and a member of the Centre’s Executive Committee from 1998 to 2011. We will miss him greatly.

The Joint Centre for History and Economics (JCHE) is based at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge, and at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. It was established in 1991 to promote research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists, including the history of economic and social thought, economic history and the application of economic concepts to historical problems. The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance.

The Centre is supported by a generous gift from the David K. and Carol Richards Fund. In cooperation with its counterpart Centre at Harvard, the Cambridge Centre undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. It provides the base for the History Project, and for current research projects on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas; Energy History and Gender Bias in India.

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