Lectures

In this Quantitative History Lecture, Andrew J. Sinclair will explain in detail how their findings demonstrate that the path of financial development depends on whether new financial services compete with or complement existing institutional arrangements.

Hanzhi Deng makes a quantitative breakthrough by establishing a panel dataset of 266 prefectures over 10 years. He collects data on ‘new policy’ progress and mass action incidents from various sources, such as chronologies, fiscal statistics, and other compilations. During this lecture, Hanzhi Deng examines relevant mechanisms, such as how state expropriation of previous civil properties and the rising inequality in the distribution of new public goods caused pervasive resentment.

在前人研究基礎上，陳燁軒利用傳世文獻、碑銘、文書和沉船考古資料，復原阿拉伯和中國商人的遠航路線，分析商船的組織和貨物管理，探討中世紀的國際貿易模式。

本報告主要依據嘉靖、雍正、民國年間的三種《陝西通志》及其他資料，詳細討論了1368-1953年不同文獻對於陝西各府分縣人口、田畝、田賦、徭役數據的記載方式及內涵。

As part of the Quantitative History Book Launch Series, this public lecture unveils a significant new economic history of India spanning from the reign of Akbar in the sixteenth century to its post-independence integration into the global economy.