Upcoming Seminars & Lunches: Center for Economic History

Seminars

The Center invites visitors from other universities to present weekly seminars in fall and spring quarters.

Lunches

The Center hosts weekly lunches where members present their preliminary works in a friendly atmosphere.

Oct

2025

Economic History Lunch Seminar

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Speaker: Yifang Zhang Title: "Radio (Counter-)propaganda and Job Choice” Abstract: This paper studies how foreign counter-propaganda shapes political attitudes and economic behavior...

Oct

2025

Seminar in Economic History

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Christopher Sims (Northwestern University):"The Origins of the Nitrogen Revolution" (joint with Matteo Ruzzante) Abstract: Many important technologies throughout history have been...

Oct

2025