CCSS Meeting #66: GDP and well-being in the world economy since 1820

This lecture will be held in physical format at the CCSS Living Room (Min. 4.16) with lunch and refreshments provided. The theme of this CCSS Lunch Meeting is Human Well-being.

Speaker Overview

Dr. Auke Rijpma is an assistant professor in economic and social history, at Faculty of Humanities (UU). He is interested in long-run economic growth, but above all in how economic growth results in widely shared gains in wellbeing. To do this he takes a quantitative and computational approach to the historical record, and tracks how things like income, health, work, and inequality changed as economies grew and stagnated. He works historically because it provides the diverse cases we need, and the necessary long-term view at which many of these processes operate. A big-data approach is needed to make the most out of new large-scale historical microdata becoming available, and to be able to have a “broad wellbeing” perspective, which takes into account the multidimensional character of wellbeing. He constructs and analyses such datasets in a diverse team of historians, social scientists, and computer scientists in projects like the Historical Income Panel of the Netherlands, CLARIAH, and the Cape of Good Hope Panel. You can find more info at aukerijpma.nl.

Lecture Overview

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There will be 45-min lecture from the speaker, followed by a 15-min Question & Answer session.

To attend the lecture, please signup below before 15:00 on Monday 17 June.