Projects
Economic growth and material living standards in a transistion economy: Venice (1600-1800). University of Antwerp
Economic growth and inequality. Explaining divergent growth paths in pre-industrial Europe (late Middle Ages – 19th century) Ghent University
This proposal aims to give a new impulse to the stronger tendency in social and economic research to look at the past in order to deal with contemporary questions of unequal economic growth and prosperity. We will study the mechanisms behind the diverging growth paths in medieval and early modern Europe, which are at the basis of the current global economic model. Four test areas will be studied in a comparative way.
Taxation, fiscal policy and economic growth and employment Ghent University
This project contains two parts:
*development, calibration and simulation of a general equilibrium macro model with overlapping generations for OECD countries. We study the relationships between (a) government expenditures and taxes, and (b) employment by age, education and economic growth.
*research into the relationship between ownership (and related taxes) and employment in Belgian districts since the 1970s (test ...
Fashionably Late? Economic growth and time awareness in early modern Europe (Antwerp & Amsterdam, 16th-18th century) University of Antwerp
The impact of “degrowth” and market economies on welfare and sustainability: a historical exploration KU Leuven
Lords, land, and labour. The influence of seigneuries on economic development in the late medieval Low Countries (c. 1350 – c. 1550) Ghent University
This project probes the impact of political elites on pre-modern economies. The central concept is the seigneurie, the institution that cemented the rural elite’s power over populations in the countryside. Seigneuries impacted upon the rural economy through their powers of surplus extraction that proceeded from coercion rather than market exchange. Yet, while elite rent-seeking infringed on the income of the peasantry, the macro-economic ...
Urban logistics and economic geography. University of Antwerp
Himalayan Urbanism: Questions of ecological, economic and ethnographic identities (The case of depopulation in Uttarakhand) KU Leuven
The Himalayas are undergoing drastic transformations. The increasing modernisation and economic reform in the Himalayan communities has resulted in a newly imposed urban-rural dichotomy. While traditional rural settlements struggles with regards to livelihoods, declining socio-cultural practices and eventual depopulation, contemporary urban areas are places of economic and industrial growth. Urbanity is a relatively new notion in the ...