Industrial Policy in History

In this session of the International Macro History Online Seminar, join us for a presentation on "Industrial Policy in History" by  Giovanni Federico (NYU-Abu Dhabi and CEPR), Réka Juhász (UBC and CEPR) and Kevin O'Rourke (Sciences-Po and CEPR)

Giovanni Federico is an economic historian, with a strong emphasis on data-intensive quantitative work. He has started his academic career studying modern Italian economic growth in the 19th and  20th century and he still working on Italian issues (most recently the North-South divide).  Later, he developed an interest in global and comparative history. He has published An economic history of silk industry 1830-1930 (Cambridge 1997) and Feeding the world: an economic history of world agriculture, 1800-2000  (Princeton 2005) as well articles on  market integration, trade, industrial and agricultural policy. He has built with Antonio Tena (Carlos III, Madrid) The  Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database, with series of trade by country from 1800 to 1938, and he is developing a new research project on world population. He is also interested in the recent history and prospects of economic history as a profession. He is currently editor of the Economic History Review.

Réka Juhász is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. She studies industrial policy and industrialization. She is co-founder of The Industrial Policy Group, an empirical research lab that aims to deliver core empirical research surrounding industrial policy, and make industrial policy a serious object of economic study.

Kevin Hjortshøj  O'Rourke is a Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS, and a Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, Paris. He was previously the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford and the Research Director of CEPR. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His research lies at the intersection of economic history and international economics, particularly international trade. He has written extensively on the history of globalization and deglobalization, and his Globalization and History (co-authored with Jeffrey G. Williamson) won the 1999 American Association of Publishers/PSP Award for the best scholarly book in economics. 

IMHOS seminars

The spring 2025 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from February, 12th to May, 28th 2025 and will take place virtually bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 5:00pm (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with an extra optional 15 minutes for further discussion.

The detailed programme and more info is available under "Spring 2025 Programme" here : https://cepr.org/imhos

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The International Macro History Online Seminar (IMHOS) is a joint initiative of the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a consortium of universities and institutions: Banque de France, Centre for Economic Policy Research, European Association of Banking History, European Historical Economics Society, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Judge Business School Cambridge, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, King’s College London, London School of Economics, NYU-Abu Dhabi, Paris School of Economics, Princeton University, Queen’s University Belfast, Rutgers University, Sciences Po, Santa Clara University, Solvay Business School, Universitat de Barcelona, University Carlos III Madrid, University College London, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, University of Geneva, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Yale University.