kris_inwood

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to demography

CFP: 10th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop at the University of Adelaide Nov 6 2023.
Please send proposals (extended abstracts/papers) to Florian Ploeckl florian.ploeckl@adelaide.edu.au by July 16.
ECRs & grad students encouraged to apply.
Contact florian.ploeckl@adelaide.edu.au for more detail.
@econhist @economics @devecon @ecosocio @sociology @datasociety cial @politicalscience @geography @demography @epiverse #history #histodons #Australia #auspol #NZ #economics #econtwitter #clio

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to homebrewing

Australians and their beer! New open access article in @apehr dissects the concentration of market power & changing spatial footprint of Victorian brewing 1870-1900, from Gavin Wood, Declan Martin & Liz Taylor. Importance of #railway #innovation #technology #regulation #scale #consumption #colonialism
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12262
@econhist @economics @sociology @politicalscience @geography @geodons @industrialorganization @transportecon #AustralianHistory #beer #history #histodons #bizhis #GIS

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to politicalscience

Dr. Jamein Cunningham (Cornell) shows that residential segregation increased death by homicide of non-whites but not of whites in US 1970-2010, at the workshop on Race, Equity & Public Policy at the Munk School, the University of Toronto.
eventbrite.ca/e/race-equity-and-public-policy-the-2023-bissell-heyd-symposium-tickets-596976461667

@economics @econhist @sociology @politicalscience @geography @ecosocio @inequalityecon @anthropology #history #histodons #race #segregation #economics #USA

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to politicalscience

Plenary speaker Trevon Logan
borrows humanities thinking to advance the economic discourse on race at the Munk School's
conference on Race, Equity and Public Policy organized by Claire Célérier & Shari Eli
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/race-equity-and-public-policy-the-2023-bissell-heyd-symposium-tickets-596976461667
@economics @econhist @sociology @politicalscience @geography @ecosocio @inequalityecon @anthropology #history #histodons #race #segregation #economics #USA

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to politicalscience

Laura Panza (UMelbourne) examines economic development in the long-lived Ottoman Empire 1500-1914 with implications for the entire Middle East - drawing on existing estimates of population density at the city level, trade flows & GDP per capita, highlighting the high degree of spatial & temporal heterogeneity across the region https://cepr.org/publications/dp18132
@trade @devecon @econhist @politicalscience @geography #econtwitter #history #histodons #MiddleEast #Ottoman #economics #population #urban #trade

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to politicalscience

CFP: Asia-Pacific Economic & Business History Conference
University of Hawai‘I, Feb 17-18 2024
All topics welcome w particular interest in institutions & organizations.
Prof Zhiwu Chen will give the 2024 Noel Butlin Lecture
https://hkubs.hku.hk/people/zhiwu-chen/
Proposals to lacroix@hawaii.edu by Sept 30
Graduate student support available
https://economichistorysociety.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/
@economics @econhist @politicalscience @sociology @archaeodons #bizhis #history #histodons #institutions #hawaii #CFP #Asia #Pacific #Australia #NZ

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to politicalscience

Gregori Galofré-Vilà in the latest Social Science History shows that informal networks of Freemasonry, friendly societies, etc contributed disproportionately to innovation in 19th century Britain - strengthening the Joel Mokyr perspective with detail about the dissemination of ideas
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.49
@econhist @economics @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @innovation #history #histodons #IndustrialRevolution #Britain #Mokyr #ideas #innovation #industrialization

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to politicalscience

19th century abolitionism disrupted some American Protestant denominations more than others because of differences in centralized authority & capacity to suppress dissent, rather than theological variation, according to Kristin George in the most recent Social Science History. Open access https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.1
@sociology @politicalscience @geography @economics @anthropology @religion #history #histodons #theology #Protestant #slavery #abolition #ideology #schism #SocialScienceHistory #USA

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to science

1930s Chinese female sociologists Zhou Shuzhao, Liu Qingyu & Xu Huifang theorized that social conditions rather than biology shaped the crimes of women, according to Stephanie Montgomery who reconstructs their intellectual contributions in a new Social Science History article https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.34
@sociology @politicalscience @anthropology @economics @econhist @geography @criminology #history #histodons #China #crime #sociology #women #ChicagoSchool #biology #criminalization #SocialReform

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to politicalscience

In the latest issue of Social Science History Matthew Kearney reports a strong link cross-nationally in 36 countries between abortion attitudes & genetic counseling. The less socio-political controversy, the more directive were genetic counselors, whether prevailing views favoured restriction or liberalization. Open Access
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.43
@sociology @economics @politicalscience @geography @anthropology #SocialScience #history #histodons #genetics #abortion #counseling #GeneticCounseling

kris_inwood, 1 year ago to socialwork

40 US states created mother’s pensions 1910-20 partly to reduce child labour in needy families. In a new Social Science History article Elizabeth Anderson, Sabino Kornrich & Eman Abdelhadi show child labour did not diminish - because eligibility was restricted, amounts were small and administration was weak. Open access
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2022.33
@sociology @politicalscience @economics @geography @anthropology @inequalityecon @ecosocio @socialwork #history #histodons #welfare #ChildLabor #USA