Is Israel committing humanitarian crimes in Gaza? The Israeli gov’t strenuously denies it. Aryeh Neier, a giant in the world of human rights who escaped Nazi Germany and later cofounder Human Rights Watch, says the answer is yes. Our conversation from today’s GPS:

Introduced and compiled by Cédric Chambru & @pmaneuvre, the Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD) records over 20,000 episodes of social conflict at the global scale between the European High Middle Ages (c. 1000–c. 1870). #APSRNewIssue ow.ly/lha150RIAEA

We are opening a three-year Browaldh Post-doc fellowship (with the possibility of a three-year extension) in Financial History. Deadline 15 August. You find the call on our homepage under vacancies: uu.se/en/department/…

1. The key to dressing well in summer is to play with fabric textures, interesting silhouettes and colour coordination. Kinski wears an ivory linen sack suit that has crumpled beautifully after multiple rounds of raging, while the more eye-catching members of the crew are decked

going to #NEPS2024 conference in Dublin? I look forward to presenting my paper with Jakob Molinder where use georeferenced data to investigate the microlevel effect of resource extraction on development and different types of violence and protests in sub-saharan Africa Network of European Peace Scientists

Electricity consumption in Europe in 1507

Skriver på DN Debatt att #Almedalsveckan borde fokusera på ett nytt samhällskontrakt för högre välstånd och lägre arbetslöshet. Nuvarande politik har nått vägs ände. Arena Idé Niklas Blomqvist Kjell Rautio Roger Mörtvik Lisa Pelling Marcus Larsson Mats Engström dn.se/debatt/satsnin…

Skriver om att den moderna stadsplaneringen gör oss sjuka! ”Täta kvartersstäder med grönområden, där människor byter bilåkande mot kollektivtrafik, promenader och cykling, är hälsosammare.” Detta enligt en rapport från HSB. Läs!

Eva Nilsson var min lärarinna i lågstadiet, kul 👍

New co-authored paper in AJS on increasing earnings segregation at workplaces in 12 countries. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

After a supposedly 111-year-old man was found to have been dead since 81 and unreported so his daughter could keep collecting his pension checks, Japanese authorities began investigating the country's oldest old. They found a mess.

I am honored and happy to receive the Forte Starting Grant for my project on Origins and Opportunities. I will now spend the coming years working on how (childhood) income inequality is related to educational opportunities and mobility.

We are organizing the 3rd Workshop in Economic History organized in beautiful Uppsala on May 22-23, 2025 with a keynote by Elias Papaioannou! Call for papers with submission link :   shorturl.at/rCVZ7

Join us in Uppsala for the third edition of this nice & friendly workshop. Phd students are especially welcome to submit!

What explains Scandinavians’ unique values & patenting style? Whereby the state is valued for freeing individuals from dependency, even within the family? Here, I review 3 very different perspectives! substack.com/home/post/p-15…

New pre-print, with @f_kersting : “The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison”. osf.io/preprints/osf/…

AJR's Nobel-winning work sparked a wave of persistence studies, yet what doesn’t persist is perhaps more interesting for development successes. My paper examines this in the context of forced labour in Portuguese colonial Africa. bit.ly/4hQrT9I

Today is a great day for inequality/labor market research. The UHILL (Uppsala Historical Inequality and Labor Lab) has officially launched. Link 👇 uu.se/en/research/up…. Jakob Molinder, Johan Ericsson, and Jonatan Andersson direct the lab.

Now on Early View: 'Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74'. By Leo Dolan. Leo Dolan UC3M onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…