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Forthcoming article "Going Viral: Protests and Polarization in 1932 Hamburg" by Bruno Caprettini, Marcel Caesmann @jvoth.bsky.social and @davidyd.bsky.social
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October 1, 2026 at 11:18 AM
gregorigv.bsky.social
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 Technology and Long-Term Development: Lessons from the Past. When? June 12-13, 2025. Where? València (Spain). Keynotes: Luigi Pascali and Bruno Caprettini #EconSky #Econhist
September 4, 2024 at 8:24 PM
reveconstudies.bsky.social
"Winners of Excellence in Refereeing Award for 2024"

The Review of Economic Studies thanks all of the exceptional referees who have contributed their time & expertise to the journal

Dan Cao
Bruno Caprettini
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Krishna Dasaratha
Maya Eden
Thiemo Fetzer @trfetzer.com

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July 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
mattiolidaniele.bsky.social
"Per la #pace è necessaria una competenza, una intelligenza di visione, per la guerra basta una disattenzione volontaria, [...] dando ovviamente la colpa della mal riuscita a qualcun altro."
(G.P. Caprettini)
#NoWar
#Peace
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March 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
gregorigv.bsky.social
The workshop at @ehvalencia.bsky.social has started with Bruno Caprettini > "Where have all the workers gone? The contribution of labor to the Industrial Revolution" #past #history #technology #change @jvoth.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
linnaeus-econ.bsky.social
Earlier this semester, we've also had great visits from Bruno Caprettini (St.Gallen), Anna Dreber (SSE), Matthew Staiger (Harvard) & Peter Hansen (UNC-Chapel Hill)! 🤩
November 15, 2024 at 5:14 PM
deenamousa.com
People invoke the Industrial Revolution as reassurance about AI. But living through it meant decades of wage stagnation, job loss & unrest.

Ep1 of a new @voxdev.bsky.social series, we talk to economic historian Bruno Caprettini about what that analogy gets right/wrong

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AI and the industrial revolution: Similarities, differences and lessons
How did society change during the industrial revolution? Are there lessons we can learn for the AI revolution?
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February 6, 2026 at 10:59 PM
econhohenheim.bsky.social
Zum Abschluss des #Research Seminar in #Economics @unihohenheim.bsky.social im #Wintersemester begrüßen wir heute Bruno #Caprettini von der Universität St. #Gallen und freuen uns auf seinen Vortrag "You Only Weave Twice: Industrial #Espionage and #Growth in XIX Century France".
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January 21, 2026 at 10:48 AM
olihanney.bsky.social
🆕 Is the industrial revolution a good comparison for AI?

If you’ve been paying attention to the AI debate, you’ve probably heard this comparison come up a lot.

But what does it actually mean? @deenamousa.com and I are joined by Bruno Caprettini to discuss: youtu.be/AfnLk_bSDy8?...
Will AI be like the industrial revolution?
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February 5, 2026 at 8:34 AM
aeajournals.bsky.social
Forthcoming in the AER: "Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution" by Hans-Joachim Voth, Bruno Caprettini, and Alex Trew.
Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution
(Forthcoming Article) - We establish a link between labor scarcity and the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. During the Napoleonic Wars, more than 10 percent of the male population served in the armed forces. Where recruitment was heavy, more machines economizing on labor were adopted. Naval recruitment, instrumented by warships’ coastal access, provides exogenous variation in labor scarcity and suggests that the link between labor shortages and adoption is causal. Where mechanical skills were abundant, the impact of labor scarcity on adoption appears to be larger.
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July 21, 2026 at 12:10 PM
voxeu.org
Bruno Caprettini, Alex Trew, & Hans-Joachim Voth turn to historical evidence to show that English labour shortages during the Napoleonic Wars created upward pressure on wages and led to massive productivity gains through the adoption of new machines.
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Figure shows a strong positive association between recruitment intensity and wages. As populations in rich countries age and fewer youngsters enter the labour force, employers and politicians bemoan labour ‘shortages’. This column turns to historical evidence to highlight why governments should learn to love labour shortages. Between 1792 and 1815, as Britain and France fought each other for global dominance, more than one out of every ten British men ended up in the army or navy, resulting in acute labour shortages and upward pressure on wages. The authors show how this labour scarcity and a skill abundance complemented each other in driving technology diffusion, boosting British productivity in the long run.
July 27, 2026 at 8:34 AM
voxdev.bsky.social
On Wednesday February 18th (15:00 GMT), Bruno Caprettini & Luis Felipe Saenz will discuss structural transformation, providing a brief history, key facts, and main theories.
February 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
giacomovalle.bsky.social
Special thanks to the sensory iBCI team:
CharlesGreenspon SlimanBensmaia♥️ Robert Gaunt & all the BCI participants

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December 9, 2024 at 9:42 AM
unisg.ch
For Assistant Professor PhD Bruno Caprettini from the University of St.Gallen, Donald Trump's #Tariffs are a sign that the US is no longer interested in the current rules of world trade, even in the longer term.
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Trump´s Tariffs: “A Frontal Attack on the WTO”
The tariffs of Donald Trump could push the multilateral trading system to its limits. For Assistant Professor PhD Bruno Caprettini from the University of St.Gallen's School of Economics and Political ...
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April 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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📢 #CallForPapers - 3rd CEPR Applied Micro-Economic History Workshop
25-26 February 2027 |📍Berlin
Deadline: 31 October
Organisers: P Ager, N Boberg-Fazlic, S Braun, B Caprettini, S Lehmann-Hasemeyer, @cathrinmohr.bsky.social
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We are pleased to announce the 3rd CEPR Applied Micro-Economic History Workshop organised with the support of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The workshop will take place on 25 and 26 February 2027 in central Berlin and will be hosted by the Kiel Institute. We welcome submissions from all areas of applied micro-economic history, including, but not restricted to, migration, trade, innovation, inequality, political economy, and long-run development. Papers should be submitted as complete manuscripts; extended abstracts will only be considered in exceptional cases. The submission deadline is 31 October 2026 at 18:00 GMT. Organisers: Philipp Ager (University of Mannheim & CEPR), Nina Boberg-Fazlic (University of Mannheim & CEPR), Sebastian Till Braun (Kiel Institute for the World Economy & CAU Kiel), Bruno Caprettini (University of St Gallen & CEPR), Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer (University of Hohenheim & CEPR), Cathrin Mohr (Kiel Institute for the World Economy & Hamburg University).
September 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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HSG-Assistenzprofessor Bruno Caprettini erläutert in seinem Beitrag, das Werk der diesjährigen Preisträger des Wirtschaftsnobelpreises.
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Wirtschaftsnobelpreis: Was Wachstum wirklich antreibt
Der Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2025 würdigt Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion und Peter Howitt für ihre Arbeit zu Innovation und technologischem Fortschritt. In diesem Beitrag erläutert HSG-As...
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October 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
owasow.bsky.social
Did Nazi marches persuade or polarize voters? In 1932 Hamburg, full exposure raised Nazi vote share by ~1 pp (18% of citywide gain), but only by widening divides: support rose in Nazi-leaning areas and fell in opposition areas. Spillovers made up ~half the effect. academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...
GOING VIRAL: PROTESTS AND POLARIZATION IN 1932 HAMBURG Bruno Caprettini University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Marcel Caesmann University of Zurich, Switzerland Hans-Joachim Voth University of Zurich, Switzerland David Yanagizawa-Drott University of Zurich, Switzerland Abstract Political polarization is a growing concern in many countries. Are mass protests merely a sign of increasing cleavages, or do they polarize societies? In this paper, we estimate the impact of Nazi marches in 1932 Hamburg, using granular data from 622 voting precincts during six elections. We show propaganda can persuade—but it does so by raising the share of areas with high levels of Nazi support. Importantly, marches can also backfire, repelling voters. Thus, protest marches lead to polarization. These effects diffused through social networks, measured using contagion patterns across neighborhoods during the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak. The electoral effects of social spillovers are similar in importance to those of direct exposure and grow over time. (JEL: D72, D74, N44) Figure 3. Nazi Party swing. The map shows a heatmap of the change in NSDAP vote share after the marches. The change is calculated between the two elections before the marches (13 March and 10 April 1932) and the three elections afterward (31 July 1932–5 March 1933). Voting behavior is observed at the polling-station level. The average change in NSDAP vote share is computed using a spatial kernel with a fixed bandwidth of 500 meters around each polling station and divided into 10 equally sized groups. Darker colors indicate larger gains for the NSDAP. Black lines show the routes of the two Nazi marches in April 1932. Sources: Voting data: Statistical Bulletin of Hamburg (Sköllin 1932a, 1932b, 1933); Nazi marches: SA Hamburg documents (State Archive Hamburg 1932a, 1932b). Figure 5. Distribution regression of direct exposure. The figure plots the estimated effect of direct exposure to Nazi marches using the main panel of elections from 1932 and 1933 (y-axis). The dependent variable equals 1 when the NSDAP vote share exceeds the threshold shown on the x-axis. Thresholds range from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the NSDAP vote-share distribution in increments of 2 percentage points. The vertical line marks the 29% crossing point between backlash—a negative effect of direct exposure—and persuasion—a positive effect. The p-value for backlash tests whether all exposure coefficients below the 29% threshold are jointly zero. The p-value for persuasion applies the analogous test to all coefficients above 29%. The regressions control for polling-station and election fixed effects, street and demographic characteristics interacted with election fixed effects, and indirect exposure to the marches. Standard errors are clustered at the polling-station level. See equation (3) and the paper for details of the joint tests. Figure 7. Indirect effect. Panel (a) plots a bin scatter of flu-based indirect exposure (x-axis) against the change in NSDAP vote share after the marches (y-axis). The change in NSDAP vote is calculated between two elections before the marches (13 March and 10 April 1932) and three elections afterward (31 July and 6 November 1932, and 5 March 1933). The t-statistic is estimated from a bivariate regression with robust standard errors. See the main text and Online Appendix for the construction of the flu-based indirect-exposure measure. Panel (b) plots estimates of flu-based indirect exposure from equation (6), with corresponding 95% confidence intervals by election (computed from Table 4, column 5). Sources: Nazi marches: SA Hamburg documents (State Archive Hamburg 1932a, 1932b); indirect exposure: death records (State Archive Hamburg 1917, 1918, 1919); voting data: Statistical Bulletin of Hamburg (Sköllin 1930, 1932a, 1932b, 1933).
August 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
unisg.ch
What can the #IndustrialRevolution teach us about today? In new research, #HSGProf Bruno Caprettini, Joachim Voth (UZH) and Alex Trew (University of Glasgow) examine how labour scarcity helped Britain transition towards mechanised production and sustained #economicgrowth. https://unisg.link/b15x.
How the first industrial country fought its way to riches
Study looks at why Britian escaped economic stagnation at the turn of the 18th century and provides insight into the labour and technological challenges we face today.
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August 18, 2026 at 12:25 PM
repec-nep-ino.bsky.social
You Only Weave Twice. Espionage And Industrialization in 18th Century France: Caprettini, Bruno
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August 12, 2026 at 8:55 AM
repec-nep-gro.bsky.social
You Only Weave Twice. Espionage And Industrialization in 18th Century France: Caprettini, Bruno
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August 3, 2026 at 2:51 AM
repec-nep-tid.bsky.social
You Only Weave Twice. Espionage And Industrialization in 18th Century France: Caprettini, Bruno
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July 20, 2026 at 4:05 PM
repec-nep-his.bsky.social
You Only Weave Twice. Espionage And Industrialization in 18th Century France: Caprettini, Bruno
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July 15, 2026 at 1:52 AM
ubscenter.uzh.ch
The evidence of @jvoth.bsky.social and Bruno Caprettini illustrates that while new technologies typically boost output overall, not everyone benefits – and the losers may not always suffer in silence.

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#EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS
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May 28, 2026 at 8:52 AM
vincenzodimaio.bsky.social
Un’immensa Palestina
Un’immensa Palestina
a cura di Gian Paolo Caprettini 18 Ottobre 2025 Il mondo rischia di diventare una immensa Palestina. Lo hanno capito i milioni di persone scese in strada che, schierandosi per la Palestina, hanno preso le parti dei diritti umani, che hanno espresso la volontà di sentirsi una comunità integrale, senza confini. E questi milioni sono diventati rappresentanti anche di chi è rimasto a casa…
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October 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
vincenzodimaio.bsky.social
La sincerità è rivoluzionaria
La sincerità è rivoluzionaria
di Gian Paolo Caprettini 21 Giugno 2025 La sincerità è rivoluzionaria perché nessuno se l’aspetta. E si presenta mentre avviene tutt’altro, mentre domina la dissimulazione e l’ipocrisia. La sincerità è disarmata perché non deve dimostrare, non obbliga nessuno a restituirne altrettanta, è un dono che non si aspetta nulla . Di solito ottiene in cambio sospetti, calcoli, finzioni, reticenze come controdoni.
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August 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM