19/02/2026 Kevin O’Rourke – The Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture
Professor Kevin O’Rourke gave the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 19th February 2026 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre of
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Professor Kevin O’Rourke gave the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 19th February 2026 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre of
Do Oil Booms have Persistent Local Impacts? Historical Evidence Does history matter for urbanization? This paper examines whether short-run shocks to urban population
Professor Jane Humphries will give the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 27th February 2025 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre
Climate Politics in the United States Abstract: We study the effects of climate change and mitigation on U.S. politics. We combine 2000-2020 precinct-level voting
Macartan Humphreys is the director of the Institutions and Political Inequality group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and honorary professor of social
Abstract: Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and
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