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Series Editors:

Guido Alfani is Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University (Milan). He is also an Affiliated Scholar of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (New York) and CEPR Research Fellow. His research focuses on inequality and social mobility in the long run, on the history of epidemics (especially of plague) and of famines, and on systems of social alliance. For CUP, he published The Lion’s Share. Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe (2019), with Matteo Di Tullio and Famine in European History (2017), with Cormac Ó Gráda. He has been the Principal Investigator of two large-scale ERC projects (EINITE and SMITE) which have explored economic inequality and social mobility during 1300-1800.

Tracy Dennison is Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Science History at the California Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the historical political economy of eastern Europe, especially the role of institutions in the long-run divergence between western and eastern Europe. She has published extensively on serfdom and its implications for long-run development in Russia, as well as serfdom in comparative contexts. She is the author of The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom (CUP 2011). Dennison earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge (2004), where she cooperated with the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. From 2015 to 2017, she was a Humboldt Fellow at the Ludwig Maximillian University (Munich).

Leandro Prados de la Escosura is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at Universidad Carlos III (Madrid) and CEPR Research Fellow. He has published on long-run growth and distribution in Spain, Latin America, and human development. His current research interests are economic freedom and well-being in historical perspective, and long-run economic change and inequality in Spain. For CUP, he published Human Development and the Path to Freedom (2022). He taught at Georgetown University and UCSD. He has been Honorary Maddison Chair (Groningen), Leverhulme Professorial Fellow (LSE), Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI (Florence).

Latika Chaudhary is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School (Stanford). Her research focuses on key issues in economic history and development in India. She has published articles in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Economic History Review, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Comparative Economics and Economics of Education Review. She co-edited A New Economic History of Colonial India (2016). Chaudhary was an economics fellow at Stanford University from 2007 to 2009, a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at University of Warwick in 2010, and a Hoover National Fellow in 2013.

Ewout Frankema is Professor of Economic & Environmental History at Wageningen University, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Global History and CEPR Research Fellow. His research agenda focuses on a deeper understanding of the long-term comparative economic development of Africa, Latin America and Asia, and the historical origins and nature of present-day global inequality. Frankema has taught courses in history, economics and development studies at various universities in the Netherlands, as well as in Sweden, Benin, Uganda and Uruguay. He is currently leading the research project South-South Divergence: Comparative Histories of Regional (dis)Integration in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa since 1850.

John Joseph Wallis is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland.  He is also Research Associate of NBER, CEPR, CAGE, and Snider Center. He is an economic historian who works on the interaction of political and economic development. He is particularly interested in how patterns of economic institutions change over time and how economic institutions interact with political institutions in a way that make both sustainable over time. Most of his work has been in American history, but over the last decade he has researched contemporary development problems around the world. For CUP, he published Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (2009), with D.C. North and B.R. Weingast.