Gareth Austin

Name:	Gareth Austin
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
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Last login:	Thu Apr 04 12:32:34 +0000 2024

Public lists managed by Gareth Austin

• African Economic History Seminar
• Ellen McArthur Lectures

Talks given by Gareth Austin

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• ‘From Oil Shocks to Structural Adjustment in Two African Beverage-Crop Economies: Ghana and Kenya Compared, 1973-1983’

Talks organised by Gareth Austin

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• ‘The Glorious Revolution that Wasn’t: Rural Elite Conflict and Demand for Democratization in Khedival Egypt’ (Co-authored with Allison Spencer Hartnett)
• ‘A Taste for Mocha: Competing for the Coffee Trade in the Eighteenth Century’
• ‘Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World’
• ‘Imperial Regulation, Commercial Practices, and the Pan-European Genesis of the Trade in Enslaved Africans to Spanish America’
• ‘Living Standards in Angola, 1760-1975’
• ‘Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What Can Names Tell Us?’
• ‘Consumer Experiences in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: Trends and Developments, 1980 to 2023’
• ‘East African Grain Markets in Long-Run Perspective, c. 1900-2020’
• Fifty Years of 'An Economic History of West Africa'
• Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th Century China and Japan
• The tax haven that wasn't: state, capital, and the politics of corporate taxation in the French colonial empire, 1920s-1950s
• Native Authorities and Infrastructural Investments in Colonial Africa: The Electrification of Nigerian Towns, 1910-1950
• ‘Money, Imperial Sterling, and Colonial Economy-Building’
• ‘A Global Moment: The Circulation of East African Cowries across Land and Oceans (18th-19th Century)’
• ‘Rural Capitalism and Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Trends and Transitions’
• ‘Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony’
• 'The History and Politics of Capital Markets in Post-independence Africa: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Kenya’
• ‘Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast’
• ‘The decolonisation of African states. Taxation and expenditure in former French Africa, 1900-2020’
• ‘In Search of the Roots of the East Asian Miracle: The role of colonialism and extraction’
• ‘The Rothschild tobacco business in the nineteenth century: the interplay between finance and commodities’
• From Mortgage Holders to Slum Landlords: Compensated Emancipation and the Building of Cape Town, 1830s-1840s
• Title to be confirmed
• Gains and Gainers on Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and Slave-Based Commodities: Towards a Global Approach
• Lecture 4: Adam Smith in Mesopotamia
• Lecture 3: Domar and Habakkuk on the Euphrates
• The Angolan Coffee Frontier, 1820-1920
• Lecture 2: Malthus in the Levant
• Lecture 1: What the Natufians did for us
• African Merchants in Lagos: An Exploration in Entrepreneurial History
• A Mapping of Resource-rich Precolonial Territories: How do Economic Resources Influence Voting Patterns in Postcolonial Ghana?
• Understanding Japan’s competitiveness in the global cotton market in the early 20th century’
• Capital and labour: Theoretical foundations of the economics of slavery
• Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt: How Polity Influenced Country Risk in the First Financial Globalisation
• ‘African Entrepreneurship: the Fetish of Personal Responsibility’
• ‘A History of Rubber Production in Africa’
• 'Measuring Historical Income Inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?’
• 'Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969’
• ‘From Oil Shocks to Structural Adjustment in Two African Beverage-Crop Economies: Ghana and Kenya Compared, 1973-1983’
• CANCELLED! Capital and colonialism: The return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969
• The fiscal history of the British Cape Colony in comparative perspectives: Rethinking the South African exceptionalism, 1814-1910
• Marching with the Times: Numbers and Temporalities in 1960s Ghana
• Nigeria, British Economic Interests and the Sterling Guarantee Agreement
• Ores for Development? Local Effects of Central African Copper Mining in Comparative Perspective (1910 to 2000)
• Legacies of loss: The intergenerational outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony
• Gender and the Colonial Labour Market in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1980
• Struggles over slavery, struggles over power: Africa 1926-1946
• The historical roots of entrepreneurial growth aspirations in Africa
• Approaching a 2nd Edition of An Economic History of West Africa'
• Approaching a 2nd Edition of An Economic History of West Africa