Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution

In this session of the International Macro History Online Seminar, join us for a presentation on "Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution" with Jonathan Chapman (University of Bologna) with Tim Besley (LSE and CEPR), Dan Bogart (UC Irvine), Nuno Palma (University of Manchester and CEPR) Chair: Steven Pincus (The University of Chicago)

Jonathan Chapman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Bologna. He is an applied microeconomist, with research interests straddling Economic History, Political Economy, and Behavioral Economics. His work in economic history is focused on the development of the British state. Several of his papers use the British experience to test theories in political economy, such as the effects of democratization on government spending. Another strand of research investigates the role of the state in Britain’s mortality decline. His research in behavioral economics focuses on eliciting behavioral preferences in broad populations, as part of the World Econographics Project.  In a series of papers he uses data from incentivized, representative, surveys to investigate the relationships between different behavioral preferences, and between economic preferences and socio-demographic characteristics.

Steven Pincus is a historian of Britain and its Empire, of comparative revolutions, comparative empires, and of northern Europe more broadly. He is both a deeply committed archival historian and a scholar who believes profoundly that historians should engage with the social sciences.  His second major monograph, 1688: The First Modern Revolution, offered both a major revisionist account of England's Glorious Revolution and a reappraisal of the literature on revolutions more broadly. I showed that far from being an unrevolutionary revolution, the Revolution of 1688 radically transformed English state and society. The revolution, I suggest, can only be understood by placing it in a European and global context. Since 1688 was a radical revolution, I suggest, it is imperative to rethink the nature of revolutions since so much of that literature assumed that the later eighteenth-century French Revolution was the first modern revolution.  His research has been supported over the years with fellowships from the Harvard Society of Fellows, the ACLS, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. He has been a visitor at All Souls College (Oxford), EHESS (Paris), IMT (Lucca) and the University of Warwick. He is a co-convenor of the History and Social Sciences and the Empires and the Atlantics forums.

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.

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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.