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The Eighth Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024)

2024-12-10 09:002024-12-10 18:00Asia/Hong_KongThe Eighth Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024)

The Eighth Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024)

Date/Time: December 9-10, 2024T
Venue: HKU Main Campus
Language: English
Enquiry: (Email) ahec2024@hku.hk

    2024-12-10 09:002024-12-10 18:00Asia/Hong_KongThe Eighth Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024)

    The Eighth Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024)

    Date/Time: December 9-10, 2024T
    Venue: HKU Main Campus
    Language: English
    Enquiry: (Email) ahec2024@hku.hk

      Overview

      Title:

      The Eighth Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024)

      Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):

      Sascha O. Becker (Professor of Economics, University of Warwick; Professor and Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics
      Monash University)

      Joel Mokyr (Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University)

      Peter Turchin (Emeritus Professor, University of Connecticut)

      Date/Time:

      December 9-10, 2024

      Venue:

      HKU Main Campus

      Language:

      English

      Title:

      The Eighth Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC 2024)

      Speaker(s) / Presenter(s)

      Sascha O. Becker (Professor of Economics, University of Warwick; Professor and Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics
      Monash University)

      Joel Mokyr (Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University)

      Peter Turchin (Emeritus Professor, University of Connecticut)

      Date/Time:

      December 9-10, 2024

      Venue:

      HKU Main Campus

      Language:

      English

      About AHEC

      About AHEC The Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC) is a biennial conference organized by the Asian Historical Economics Society. The conference aims to bring together researchers working on the economic history of all regions of Asia, as well as those comparing Asia with other regions. Previous conferences were held in Venice (2008), Beijing (2010), Tokyo (2012), Istanbul (2014), Seoul (2016), Hong Kong (2018), and Bangkok (2022).

      AHEC 2024
      The 8th Conference (AHEC 2024) will be hosted by the Centre for Quantitative History of HKU Business School, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the International Society for Quantitative History. The two-day conference will take place at the main campus of The University of Hong Kong on December 9-10, 2024. Sascha O. Becker (Warwick and Monash), Joel Mokyr (Northwestern), and Peter Turchin (Complexity Science Hub-Vienna and Connecticut) will give keynote speeches.

      Key Dates

       

       

       

      AHEC 2024 Organizing Committee

      Chair

      Zhiwu Chen
      University of Hong Kong

       

      Members

      Stephen Broadberry
      University of Oxford
      Kyoji Fukao
      Hitotsubashi University
      Bishnupriya Gupta
      University of Warwick
      Duol Kim
      Myongji University
      Chicheng Ma
      University of Hong Kong
      Debin Ma
      Fudan University
      Şevket Pamuk
      Bogaziçi University

      Keynote speakers and committee members are in alphabetical order by last name.