🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

📢 #CallforPapers The 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024) is coming to #HKU on December 9-10, 2024. Sascha O. Becker Monash University University of Warwick and Joel Mokyr Northwestern will give keynote speeches at the #conference. Join leading scholars and engage in

War & the origins of Chinese civilization! Why did complex societies, characterized by densely-populated walled cities, first arise in northern China? A lecture by Prof Zhiwu Chen, Feb 17 at the 2024 Asia-Pacific Econ & Bus History Conf, Univ of Hawai‘i sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/202…

My new book, "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850" has a trailer! Check it out here. youtu.be/d579RE1tA6M?si… via YouTube

Mark Finnane & Jonathan Richards revisit violence against Indigenous people on the Queensland frontier, question recent high mortality estimates & encourage more detailed local studies of colonisation's impact on First Peoples. Open access in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

The economic & political logic of US Army violence against 19thC Native Americans is analyzed in a new OA paper in Asia-Pacific EcHR. Amed conflict was greater in recessionary election years & when land values increased due to gold mining or RR building. doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

Happy to share a new Call for Papers, at Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, for applied micro papers on or across Pacific countries. It follows from the devpolicy.org - Asian Development Bank Institute workshop Daniel Suryadarma, Dil, and I put together a while ago. Please share within relevant networks. Open for 2 months 1/2

Boyd Hunter reviews the details & significance of Butlin’s back-casting of Indigenous population estimates for Australia, points to disease & frontier violence impact, & confirms Indigenous outnumbered colonists until well into the 1840s. OA Asia-Pacific Economic History Review doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

Historical evidence of disease, fertility decline, violence & resource loss inform a back-cast prediction of high pre-contact Indigenous population in Tasmania & subsequent fast decline, according to a new paper by Byard & Maxwell-Stewart in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

Sex imbalance varied by ethnicity & influenced marital decisions & hhold composition at a time of rising ethnic intermarriage in early 20thC Hawaii, according to a new Asia-Pacific EcHR paper by Sumner La Croix, Tim Halliday, Joe Price & Jacob Van Leeuwen doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

Chicheng Ma (HKU) uses Matteo Ricci’s networks among Chinese officials as an instrument to assess the impact of missionary influences on intensity of later foreign trade in a paper w Zhiwu Chen & Xinhao Li at the 2024APEBH meeting in Honolulu sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/202…

Professor Zhiwu Chen delivered the 2024 Noel Butlin lecture at the 2024 Asia-Pacific Eco & Bus History conference, arguing that warfare was a key trigger for the emergence of walled cities leading to the early rise of civilization in north China. HKIHSS 香港人文社會研究所 sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/202…

Centralized higher school admission in early 20thC Japan led to better officials & improved careers for hi-achieving students but increased regional inequality by crowding out rural applicants, according to Chiaki Moriguchi at the 2024 APEBH Conference. sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/202…

Hot off the press! La Croix & Maxwell-Stewart examine ethnic inter-marriage & Indigenous depopulation in the Pacific from violence, resource loss & disease in the introduction to a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

Just Published! AEHR Special Issue: Indigenous Populations of the Pacific and American West #OpenAccess and #FreeToRead here: ow.ly/viI050QKKnT Asia-Pacific Economic History Review Brian Varian

Wiley Economics

Speculating about genocide on the Queensland frontier, Finnane & Richards revisit violence against the First Peoples, reassess mortality estimates & encourage more local studies of the impact of colonisation. Open access in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev. doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

part of a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review on the theme Indigenous populations of the Pacific and American west

Byard & Maxwell-Stewart report high pre-contact Indigenous population in Tasmania & subsequent fast decline using historical evidence of disease, fertility decline, violence & resource loss. Open access in the Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev (Asia-Pacific Economic History Review)! doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

Indigenous outnumbered White settlers until ~1850 in Australia, according to Boyd Hunter who points to the impact of disease & frontier violence in his new review of Butlin’s back-cast population model. Open access in Asia-Pacific Economic History Review doi.org/10.1111/aehr.1…

CFP: the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference Dec 9-10 2024 at Hong Kong University. Keynotes by Sascha Becker & Joel Mokyr. Submit 3-5 page proposals or full papers by May 31. Acceptance by July 15. cqh.hku.hk/ahec2024/ #AHEC2024 HKIHSS 香港人文社會研究所 Centre for Quantitative History @essobecker