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  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 and Ravi Raman, K. (2024) Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India's miracle state. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009521635

  • Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 and Davenport, Romola (2025) What is the case fatality rate of smallpox? Economic History Working Papers (377). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Basco, Sergi and Roses, Joan R. ORCID: 0000-0003-0661-3134 (2025) Pandemics, capital allocation and structural change. Economic History Working Papers (378). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Paker, Meredith, Stephenson, Judy ORCID: 0000-0003-4972-4096 and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2025) Predictive modeling the past. Economic History Working Papers (379). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Schneider, Eric B. ORCID: 0000-0001-7682-0126 (2025) Born in smog: the short- and long-run health consequences of acute air pollution exposure in historical London, 1892-1919. Economic History Working Papers (380). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Chilosi, David ORCID: 0000-0002-2251-0381 , Lecce, Giampaolo and Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2025) Smithian growth in Britain before the Industrial Revolution, 1500-1800. Economic History Working Papers (382). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) An economic history of India: growth, income and inequalities from the Mughals to the 21st century by Bishnupriya Gupta, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, xiv + 219 pp. Developing Economies. ISSN 0012-1533

  • Gardner, Leigh A. ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2025) Trade and money in British West Africa, 1912–1970: evidence from seasonal cycles. African Economic History, 53 (1). 144 - 165. ISSN 0145-2258

  • Irigoin, Alejandra ORCID: 0000-0001-5395-1537 (2025) Managing exchange risk: foreign monies and private trade finance in pre-modern long-distance trade (or why did bills of exchange not circulate beyond Europe?). Economic History Working Papers (381). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 and Swamya, Anand V. (2025) Development policy and legal persistence: evidence from India. Rivista di Storia Economica, 41 (1). pp. 95-116. ISSN 0393-3415

  • Nath, Maanik and Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) Editors' note. Rivista di Storia Economica, 41 (1). 3 - 6. ISSN 0393-3415

  • Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2025) Apprenticeship and economic growth in early modern England. 91ÌÒÉ« Review of Books (28 Apr 2025). Blog Entry.

  • Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 and Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) Colonial armies and the World Wars. In: The Routledge Economic History of War. Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 80-93. ISBN 9781032230252

  • Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2025) Richer and more equal: a new history of wealth in the West. Daniel Waldenström, (Polity Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781509557783. Hbk £25). Economic History Review, 78 (3). 991 - 992. ISSN 1468-0289

  • Gaddy, Hampton ORCID: 0000-0001-6397-4679 and Gargiulo, Maria (2025) Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates?: a critical review and appraisal. Demographic Research, 52. 741 - 796. ISSN 1435-9871

  • Claridge, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-8064-7394 , Delabastita, Vincent and Gibbs, Spike (2025) The commercialization of labour markets: evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages. Economic History Working Papers (375). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Xue, Melanie ORCID: 0000-0002-2112-4884 and Zhang, Boxiao (2025) The short- and long-run effect of affirmative action: evidence from Imperial China. Economic History Working Papers (376). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Irigoin, Alejandra ORCID: 0000-0001-5395-1537 , Kobayashi, Atsushi and Chilosi, David ORCID: 0000-0002-2251-0381 (2025) China inside out: explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c.1820s-1870s. Economic History Review. ISSN 1468-0289

  • Henderson, Louis ORCID: 0009-0004-3560-4186 and Humphries, Jane (2025) The economic history of caring labour: a case study of breastfeeding. Oxford Review of Economic Policy. ISSN 0266-903X (In Press)

  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) Bankrolling empire: family fortunes and political transformation in Mughal India. Business History Review, 98 (4). pp. 975-977. ISSN 0007-6805