History as approached by the Centre for Economic and Social History François-Simiand consists of the analysis of economic and social phenomena considered in their historical duration. This formulation is not straightforward and involves a series of structuring analytical hypotheses. The Centre has a dual ambition: first, to promote a historical approach to economics; then, contribute to opening up economic history to make it fully social.

Prochains évènements
Upcoming seminarsView all
Economic history
June 4, 2025
12:30 - 14:00
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
GALAZ GARCIA Sergio
(UC3M)
The New Gilded Age, the Online Revolution, and the Evolution of Class Gaps in Interpersonal Political Discussion in Western Europe, 1973-2023
Economic history
May 28, 2025
12:30 - 14:00
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
FOHLIN Caroline
(Emory University)
TBA
Financial history
May 14, 2025
12:30 - 14:00
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
NORGUES-MARCO Pilar
(Geneva)
Trade Imbalances or Silver Arbitrage? Anglo-Asian Bullion Flows in the Early Modern Period, 1664-1813
Prochains ateliers et conférencesView all
Program
June 2, 2025
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Location: Ancienne École de Médecine, Rue de l'Ecole-de-Médecine 20, 1205 Geneva, Room 74
CAP-HIST Doctoral Summer School : “Conflicts in the History of Capitalism”
(2-6 June, 2025)
Conflicts in the History of Capitalism: Themes, Approaches, Methods
Summary
The core mission of the European Laboratory Project “History of Capitalism” (CAP-HIST Lab) is to comprehensively re-evaluate the history of capitalism. To that end, its members ( Centre François Simiand (EHESS/Paris School of Economics-PSE), Institut ‘Figuerola’ of History and Social Sciences (UC3M) and the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History (University of Geneva) seek to foster a collective reflection on the state of economic history and the evolution of capitalism from an international and multidisciplinary perspective. The CAP-HIST Lab is structured around four main lines of research: north-south economic relations and the global history of Latin capitalisms; the history of inequality; business and financial history; and political economy, institutions, and ideologies. Over the coming years, the CAP-HIST Lab is organising three biennial workshops/summer schools designed to provide a forum for PhD students and emerging and senior scholars to discuss and dissect critical themes and methodologies in the history of capitalism.

The inaugural workshop/summer school, entitled Conflicts in the History of Capitalism: Themes, Approaches, Methods, will be held in early June 2025 by the Paul Bairoch Institute of Economic History at the Geneva School of Social Sciences, University of Geneva.
Working papersView all
Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830-1962
Denis COGNEAU, Yannick DUPRAZ, Elise HUILLERY, Sandrine MESPLE-SOMPS
2024
Enforcing Colonial Rule: Blood Tax and Head Tax in French West Africa
Denis COGNEAU, Zhexun MO
2024
The reform of the Paris stock exchange and anti-Semitism (1893-1998)
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur
2024
The Social Differentiation of Access to Water in 19th & 20th Century Paris
Lionel Kesztenbaum
2024