L’histoire telle que l’aborde le Centre d’histoire économique et sociale François-Simiand consiste en l’analyse des phénomènes économiques et sociaux considérés dans leur durée historique. Cette formulation n’est pas de l’ordre de l’évidence et engage une série d’hypothèses analytiques structurantes. Le Centre a une double ambition : d’abord, promouvoir une approche historique de l’économie ; ensuite, contribuer à désenclaver l’histoire économique pour la rendre pleinement sociale.

Prochains évènements
Prochains séminairesVoir tout
May 20, 2026
12:30 - 13:45
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
Christian Robles Baez
May 13, 2026
12:30 - 13:45
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
Daniel Sanchez Ordonez
May 6, 2026
12:30 - 13:45
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
Ariel Wilkis
Prochains ateliers et conférencesVoir tout
June 29, 2026
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Social Sciences Department of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)
CAPHIST Research Training Workshop
Summary
On June 29th and 30th of 2026, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid will host the annual CAP-HIST Research
Training Workshop. With this official announcement, the Organization Committee is honoured to invite all
those who are interested in participating in the workshop to send their proposals.
The history of capitalism is a narrative of the intricate intersection between state power, finance, and social
stratification rather than a simple tale of market efficiency. While specific production factors are well-studied,
a critical gap remains in linking macroeconomic shifts to their distributional consequences. Specifically, we
must determine how fiscal states shaped markets and whether past institutional choices exacerbated or
mitigated inequality. Failing to connect macro-level policies to micro-level outcomes – such as elite persistence
and social mobility – obscures the political economy driving growth. Furthermore, the lack of integrated, long-
run datasets, particularly beyond Northwestern Europe, hinders our ability to compare how various
institutional arrangements historically produced both economic progress and systemic disparity.
With the generous support of the CAP-HIST project (a joint initiative of the Paris School of Economics, the
University of Geneva, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), this workshop seeks to address these gaps by
fostering rigorous new research on the intersection of state development, finance, and inequality. We aim to
create a forum where early-career scholars (predocs and postdocs), working with both quantitative and high-
quality qualitative approaches, can present their work, exchange ideas, and situate their findings within broader
trajectories of the economy.
Working papersVoir tout
Le colonialisme au rabais : l’Empire français, 1930-1962
Denis COGNEAU, Yannick DUPRAZ, Elise HUILLERY, Sandrine MESPLE-SOMPS
2024
Appliquer la loi coloniale : L’impôt sur le sang et l’impôt de capitation en Afrique occidentale française
Denis COGNEAU, Zhexun MO
2024
La réforme de la bourse de Paris et l’antisémitisme (1893-1998)
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur
2024
Inégalités dans l’accès à l’eau à Paris aux 19e et 20e siècles
Lionel Kesztenbaum
2024