News UHE

Carmen Sarasúa, UAB

Las imágenes como fuente para la Historia del trabajo y de la economía preindustrial.

Wednesday, 21 October 2026, 2:00 pm, Seminar room B3-112C, Department of Economics and Economic History.

Follow the seminar online here.

 

 

 

Llonch Casanovas, M. (2026). "El treball de les dones al tèxtil com a motor de la Catalunya industrial (1833-1959)", in M. Duch Plana (Dir.) Història de les dones. Una nova història de Catalunya. Edicions 62. https://www.grup62.cat/llibre-historia-de-les-dones-una-nova-historia-de-catalunya/458619

The book will be presented on Thursday, October 29, at 6:30 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Ateneu Barcelonès (Carrer Canuda, 6), with contributions from Josep Ramoneda, Montserrat Duch, Cristina Borderías, and Mireia Freixa.

 

On October 2nd, Anna Solé and José Miguel Sanjuan, colleagues from the Economic History Unit, are participating in the series of talks organized by the UAB for European Research Night. The topics are How Was the Euro Built? Crisis, Politics, and Ideas in the History of the European Currency (Anna Solé) and Catalonia, the Slave Trade, and Memory (José Miguel Sanjuan). More information here.

 

Joaquín Ruíz García, Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics

Condicionants dels matrimonis consanguinis a l'Àrea de Barcelona Segles XVI-XIX.

Thursday, 1 October 2026, 2:00 pm, Seminar room B3-112C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica.

Follow the seminar online here.

 

 

The Economic History Unit is delighted to announce the addition of our colleague Santiago Colmenares Guerra, assistant professor. Santiago works on issues of agrarian history of Latin America and the Caribbean, imperialism and commodity frontiers.

 

Giacomo D'Alisa, UAB

Essential economy: preliminary lessons from COVID-19, the case of the United Kingdom

Monday, May 18, 2026, 2:30 pm, Seminar room B3/112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History, UAB.

 

 

 

 

Paul Zarak Budge (amb Pablo Algarrada), UAB i UB

Governing the Relay Race: Principals and Agents in Barcelona’s Innovation Ecosystem

Monday, May 4, 2026, 2:30 pm, Seminar room B3/112-C, Department of Economics and Economic History, UAB.

 

 

 

 

José Miguel Sanjuan, UAB

Tenemos la isla de Cuba; esta isla no vive sino por el trabajo de la mano esclava.

Permanent seminar of GREPIIC

Wednesday 22, 2026, 5:00 pm, Seminar room A, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UAB.

Online seminar through this link.

 

 

 

Guillermo Martínez Taberner, UPF

La dimensión asiática de la Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas (1881-1919)

Monday, April 20, 2026, 2:30 pm, Seminar room B3-112C, Department of  Economics and Economic History.

 

 

 

Ramos-Martín, J. and Matsumoto, S.: “Living Smaller, Consuming More? The Energy Implications of Aging and Shrinking Households in Spain“, Energy Research & Social Science, Vol. 135, 104660. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2026.104660

 

 

 

María José Fuentes, UAB

The Impact of Liberal Reforms on Female Education in Colombia in the First Half of the 20th Century: A Regional Approach

Monday, March 16, 2026, 2:30 pm, Seminar room B3-112C, Department of Economics and Economic History.

 

 

 

Ramos-Martín, J. and Matsumoto, S. (2026): “Impact of changes in the distribution of household types on residential energy consumption in Spain, 2006-2023”, Energy & Buildings, Vol. 358, 117250, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2026.117250. 

 

 

Conference by Montserrat Llonch

Women and textile factories in Catalonia (1890-1936): work and struggles.

Monday, March 9, at 6:30 pm at Biblioteca Francesca Bonnemaison.

Thematic cycle Women in the shadows.

 

Garrido-Lepe, M., Garrido-Trazar, S. (2025): "Energy expenditure in Chilean households during the 20th century", Revista de Historia Industrial–Industrial History Review, https://doi.org/10.1344/rhi-ihr.47940 

 

Jesús Ramos (with Shigeru Matsumoto), UAB and Aoyama Gakuin University

Impacto de los cambios en la distribución de los tipos de hogar en el consumo energético residencial en España, 2006-2023

Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 14:30 h, Seminar room B3-112C, Department of Economics and Economic History.

 

 

 

• Seminar Jesús Ramos This link opens a new window

Anna Solé (with Esteve Deu and Montserrat Llonch), UAB

De la imitació a la innovació en un país latecomer: la transició tecnològica de la maquinària tèxtil a Espanya (1878-1935)

Wednesday November 26, 2025, 14:30 h, Seminar room B3-112C, Department of Economics and Economic History.

Online seminar here.

 

 

• Seminar Anna Solé This link opens a new window

Shigeru Matsumoto (2025). How do Japanese households juggle energy sources? A deep dive into price responses, Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 20:1, 2579811. 

 

Reynaldo de los Reyes Patiño, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

La ciudad entrópica: Adicciones energéticas y transformación urbana en la Ciudad de México del siglo XX

Wednesday November 5, 2025, 1:30 pm, Seminar room B3-112C, Department of Economics and Economic History.

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• Seminari Reynaldo This link opens a new window

Garrido-Lepe, M. (2025): "Fuel Consumption and Welfare Ratios in Preindustrial Societies: A Methodological Adjustment". European Review of Economic History, heaf018

 

Catherine R. Schenk, St Hilda's College - University of Oxford

Inaugural lecture of the Master's Degree in Economic History (UB-UAB)

Financial History as Archaeology: digging up the plumbing of (de)globalisation

Thursday October 23, 2025, 4:00 p.m., Boardroom, Faculty of Economics and Business.

Website

Joana Maria Pujadas Mora, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Intergenerational and Intragenerational Social Mobility Accross Occupational Trajectories in Southern Europe: Catalonia (1880s-1950s)

Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 14:00 Seminar room B3/112-C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica

Online seminar here

• Seminar Pujadas This link opens a new window

Fora-Alcalde, F. (2025): "International Productivity Leakages: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Pasinetti’s Notion". International Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 54 (1): 128-153.

 

Martín Garrido, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The Cost of Warmth: How Heating Costs Shaped Living Standards in Preindustrial European Cities

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 14:00 Seminar room B3/112-C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica

Seminar online here

 

• Seminar Garrido This link opens a new window

Brondino, G., Fora-Alcalde, F., Casaú-Guirao, M.A. (2025): "Distribution dynamics of alternative productivity measures: An empirical analysis". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol. 74: 240-251.

 

Sarasúa, C. (2024). In-kind Wages: Understanding Workers’ Strategies to Cope with Inflation and Poverty. International Review of Social History, pp. 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S0020859024000610, Download pdf here.

 

17th Conference of the EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN HISTORY

EAUH 2026 Conference, BARCELONA, 2nd-5th September 2026,

“CITY NETWORKS IN EUROPE AND BEYOND.”

CALL FOR SESSIONS OPEN UNTIL APRIL 15, 2025.

More information here

 

Yáñez, C., Garrido Lepe, M. (2024): "Precios de la energía y transición energética en Chile, 1841–1970", Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Vol. 42 (3): 331-354. Download pdf here.

 

Carmen Sarasúa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

In-kind Wages: Understanding Workers’ Strategies to Cope with Inflation and Poverty

Wednesday March 19, 2025, 14:00 Seminari B3/112-C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica

Online seminar here

 

• Seminar Sarasúa This link opens a new window

Cango, P., Falconí, F., Ramos-Martín, J. (2025): “Unequal exchange and food terms of trade for China“. Journal of Environmental & Earth Sciences, Vol. 7 (3): 99-111, Download pdf here.

 

Songlin Wang, Universitat de Barcelona

The Legacy of the Manila Galleon in the First Globalization: Continuity and Change in Transpacific Asian-Latin American trade, 1876-1938.

Wednesday March 5, 2025, 14:00
Seminari B3/112-C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica

Link to online seminar

 

• Seminar Wang This link opens a new window

Cucignatto, G., Fora Alcalde, F., Garbellini, N., & Oro, G. (2025). Reappraising Pasinetti: Proportions, Prices and Economic Planning. Review of Political Economy, 1–16. 

 

Facund Fora, UAB

Seminar Influence and legacy of Luigi Pasinetti, organized by the Critical Economics Association.

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 10:30-13:00
Link to online seminar

For inscriptions, write to ecruzh@unex.es

 

Jose Miguel Sanjuan, UAB

Hidden sins. The impact of slave trade in Catalonia’s industrialization.

Wednesday December 4, 2024, 14:00
Seminari B3/112-C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica

 

• Seminar Sanjuan This link opens a new window

Guido Alfani, Bocconi University (Italy)

As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

Thursday November 28, 2024, 14:00
Seminari B3/112-C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica

 

• Seminar Alfani This link opens a new window

Facund Fora, UAB

Transferències de productivitat entre països. Una proposta metodològica i alguns resultats empírics

Wednesday November 13, 2024, 14:00
Seminari B3/112-C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica

 

• Seminar Fora This link opens a new window

Shigeru Matsumoto, Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan)

The evolution of Japan's housing and energy conservation policies and their impact on energy consumption patterns

Wednesday October 23, 2024, 14:00
Seminari B3/112-C, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica

 

• Seminar Matsumoto This link opens a new window

The Economic History Unit announces with great joy the addition of two new assistant professors, Anna Solé and Jose Miguel Sanjuan. Anna Solé works on the analysis of the origins of the European Monetary System, and Jose Miguel Sanjuan investigates inequality, elites and slavery.

 

Professor Shigeru Matsumoto, from Aoyama Gakuin University (Shibuya, Japan), is doing a research stay at our unit this year, to work with Jesús Ramos on an analysis of the energy consumption of Spanish households and a comparison with Japan.

 

Brondino, G., Fora Alcalde, F., & Casaú Guirao, M. Ángel. (2024). Measuring total labour productivity in the open economy: A proposal. PSL Quarterly Review, 77(309), 173–193.

 

Martínez-González, J. L. (2024): “Assessing agricultural adaptation to changing climatic conditions during the English agricultural revolution (1645-1740)". Cliometrica.

Fora, F. (2024): ¿Qué puede decir el socialismo sobre la inteligencia artificial?, Jacobin Latin America.

Rivas López, M., Cussó Segura, X. (2023): “Análisis de la evolución de los sistemas agroalimentarios en Europa occidental (1986-2020): ISSSA, un indicador sintético de soberanía y sostenibilidad”. Revista de Economía Crítica, núm. 36: 152-170.

Martínez González, J.L. (2023) (Ed.). Teixint Solidaritats al Baix Llobregat. Història, Realitat i Perspectives Cooperatives (1900-2023), (287 pp). Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Centre d’Estudis del Baix Llobregat. 

Padilla Rosa, E., and Ramos-Martín, J. (Eds.) (2023): Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN: 978 1 80220 040 0

Borderías, C., & Cussó Segura, X. (2023). Male Wages, Household Budgets and Living Standards of Barcelona’s Working Class (1856-1917). Investigaciones De Historia Económica, 19(2), 3–21.

Fernández Prieto, L., Gallego Martínez, D., Garrabou, R., González de Molina, M. (2020). Josep Pujol, una rememoración personal, historiográfica e histórica: Cabeza, sentido y sensación. Historia Agraria, Núm. 82: I-XIV.

Saguer Hom, Enric. (2021). In memoriam Josep Pujol Andreu (1956-2019). Recerques: història, economia, cultura, Núm. 79, p. 197-200.

Villamayor-Tomas, S., Muradian, R. (eds) The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. Studies in Ecological Economics, vol 8. Springer, Cham.

Ramos-Martin, J., Falconí, F. (2023). Biophysical Approaches to Food System Analysis in Latin America. In: Villamayor-Tomas, S., Muradian, R. (eds) The Barcelona School of Ecological Economics and Political Ecology. Studies in Ecological Economics, vol 8. Springer, Cham.