How epidemic disease offers new perspectives on economic history—and vice versa. Honoured to blog for @camunicampop.bsky.social about my new book “Controlling Contagion”: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/11... ‪@oxford-esh.bsky.social‬‬‬ @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @PrincetonUPress

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Happy to see @victoriagierok.bsky.social argue ‘ “The state made war and war made the state” does not describe very aptly what happened during pre-industrial Europe’s largest wars’ in a recent paper on wealth destruction in urban Germany during the Thirty Years' War. ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

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Wars were mostly bad for European economic development. Might be obvious to ordinary people, but it's not considered obvious in economic history. But I think it's obvious ;-) Below from @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social

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Congrats to Joel Mokyr on winning the Economics Nobel Prize! Throwback to two years ago, when he visited King's College London and gave a talk on his upcoming book about Europe and China's divergent economic and political paths over the past millennium youtu.be/Ti8JkeXrDqs?... @kcl-spe.bsky.social

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🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup! Externals welcome. Please get in touch at bouke.klein_teeselink@kcl.ac.uk or teresa.estebancasanelles@kcl.ac.uk. 📅 Full schedule 👇

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