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Migration: An economist’s historical perspective
This project provides a historical perspective on migration, demonstrating that it is the defining feature of our species, without which homo sapiens would not have thrived and populated our planet.
Publication
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World
Deirdre N. McCloskey. 2011. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World. University Of Chicago Press. 592 pp. ISBN-10: 0...
Publication
The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650–1780
Ågren, Maria. 2017. The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650–1780. Manchester: Manchester Un...
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Patriotic Thrift: Savings Campaigns and Imperial British Identity in World War II and After
During the second world war, savings campaigns mobilized the people of the British empire and commonwealth, whether men, women, or children, to make public, individual investments in the war effort.
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Global Corporations, Accountability and International Law
This research would form part of a larger project which aims to produce a new conceptual understanding of the relationship between global corporations, states, state law and international law.
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Education, Skills and Inequality in the Labour Market
The race between education and technology is a key factor in determining earnings inequality.
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Gender and Work in Early Modern Sweden: The case of lower civil servant households
It is often believed that in the past, women were confined to the home and supported by their husbands (the male breadwinner model).