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
December 6, 2023
12:00 - 13:30
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
VALENCIA CAICEDO Felipe
(Vancouver SE)
TBA
December 13, 2023
12:00 - 13:30
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
GAUTIER Stéphane
(PSE)
Late height growth and adult maturity from historical quasi-exhaustive panel data
Economic history
December 20, 2023
12:00 - 13:30
Room R1.09, Campus Jourdan
WOKER Madeline
(IEA Zurich)
The tax haven that wasn’t: imperial statecraft, capital, and the politics of corporate tax governance in the French colonial empire, 1920s-1950s
Prochains ateliers et conférencesView all
Program
Simiand workshop
December 13, 2023
09:30 - 17:00
Room R2.02, Campus Jourdan, 48 Bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Simiand Workshop
The French empires and their economic dimensions (18th-20th centuries)
Summary
Organized by Denis Cogneau et Arnaud Orain

9h30. Introduction

9h45 – 12h00 : Session 1
- Hugo Carlier (PhD student, SciencePo), « Conquest by Money? Tirailleurs Sénégalais and
Currencies in West Africa »
- Pablo Alvarez Aragon (PhD student, Université de Namur) : « Colonial Education and its
Intergenerational Transmission: Evidence from Colonial and Post-Independence Congo »
(with Catherine Guirkinger and Paola Villar)
- Fred Zhexun Mo (PhD student, PSE) : « Soldiers versus Laborers: Legacies of Colonial
Military Forced Labor in Mali » (with Ismaël Yacoubou Djima and Marion Richard)

12h00-13h15 : Lunch

13h15-14h45 : Session 2
- Mihai Olteanu (PhD student, Johns Hopkins University) : « La richesse des nations et
l’abolition de la servitude : un concours académique à la fin de la Révolution française »
- Jessica Balguy (PhD, EHESS), « Le prix de la liberté : abolir l’esclavage et
indemniser les propriétaires de l’empire colonial français en 1848 »

14h45-15h15 : Break

15h15-16h45 : Session 3
- Fanny Malègue (PhD student, Ined/Ehess) « Recensements coloniaux et pratiques
statistiques de production dans les plantations (Caraïbes françaises, XVIII e siècle) : des
chiffres concurrents ? »
- Noémie Marie-Rose (PhD student, Ehess) « Travailler après l’abolition de l’esclavage : 
l’organisation du travail ‘libre’ en Martinique de 1848 à 1855 ».
Working papersView all
The 1929 Crash of the New York Stock Exchange as a Liquidity Crisis
Jean-Laurent CADOREL
2023
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: The Poincaré Expérience (1926-1929)
Aurélien ESPIC
2023
From Oil to Atom. Steps and Financing of the French Energy Transition after 1973.
Cécile COSTA (FRAYSSE)
2023
Income distribution in Warsaw in the 1830s
Marcin Wroński
2023