September 29, 2022 @ 10:00 am HKT Quantitative History, Quantitative History Webinar Series Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age Guo Xu of Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and his co-author use newly digitized records from the U.S. Post Office to ...
October 6, 2022 @ 4:00 pm HKT Quantitative History, Quantitative History Webinar Series 唐代中國是否出現過牡丹泡沫? (“Peony Bubble” in the Tang Dynasty) Speculative bubbles and crises have accompanied financial markets since their beginning or even earlier ...
October 20, 2022 @ 9:00 am HKT Quantitative History, Quantitative History Webinar Series The Journey of Humanity: The Origin of Wealth and Inequality What are the keys to human progress? In the last two hundred years, stunning advances in health ...
October 27, 2022 @ 9:00 am HKT Quantitative History, Quantitative History Webinar Series The Rise and Fall of Imperial China China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again ...
November 17, 2022 @ 9:00 am HKT Quantitative History, Quantitative History Webinar Series Qing Officialdom: Insights from Historical Big Data In this Quantitative History Webinar, the Areas of Excellence (AoE) project team member Cameron Campbell of HKUST ...
December 1, 2022 @ 4:00 pm HKT Quantitative History, Quantitative History Webinar Series The Occupational Structure of Late Imperial China, 1734 – 1898 Based on the Xingke Tiben (刑科題本 Board of Punishments Routine Memorials), Cheng Yang of Renmin University of China assesses the long-run economic development of China ...
