Call for papers: The focus of the seminar are prices and their influence on standards of living in past economies and societies. Its aim is to investigate the influence of prices on living conditions. Attention will be devoted to the influence of prices on incomes, inequality, poverty and then everyday living standards both in the short and long run; without any chronological constraint.

List of participants

1. Luis Almenar Fernández (València), Essential objects and the household economy Price evidence from the late medieval Crown of Aragon
2. Sam Geens (Antwerp), Builders' wages in Flanders and the Black Death: new data from Coastal Flanders before 1350
3. Eric Hupin (Montreal), The Inflation Rate of the Crusading Era
4. Michail Moatsos (Utrecht), Global Absolute Poverty: Behind the Veil of Money
5. Joan Montoro I Maltas (Lleida), Foodstuff prices in Catalonia during the first half of 14th-century
6. Anne Kucab (Paris), Prices and standards of living in Rouen (15th century)
7. Aina Palarea Marimon (Girona),  Standards of living in Late Medieval Catalonia: the example of the small town of Amer
8. Cheng Yang (Cambridge), Long run regional standard of living, Population Density and Food Price in Late Imperial China 1776-1910
9. Mattia Viale (Verona), Economic growth and material living standards in a transition economy (Venice, 1600-1800)
10. Irina Yányshev Nésterova (Las Palmas), Soviet welfare, prices and proteins' consumption: 1955-1991
11. Ada Di Nucci (Chieti-Pescara), Development of prices of goods traded in international fairs of Lanciano in the modern age
12. Ernesto Lopez-Losa (Basque Country), After Hamilton: prices, wages and the cost of living in early-modern Spain
13. Francesco Cebreiro Ares (Santiago de Compostela), The great transformation of Porto meat markets 1780-180

Experts

• Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
• Ben Gales (Groningen University)
• Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)
• Giovanni Muto (Napoli University)
• Phillip Roessner (Manchester University)
• Antal Szantay (Budapest University)
• Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden University)