I want to start with the claim that I achieved the main goal of Marie Curie fellowship. I statrted the project in one of the leading groups of economic historians in Europe (HEDG group in Odense, Denmark), and now I am on tenure track position in the University of Bologna as an economic historian.
During the project "DEAR" one of the main goals was to construct the basis for the comparison of two overlooked economies of the 19th centiries : Danish and Russian. To achieve this goal I wrote and submitted publications to the journals:
1. The article with my co-author Stephen Broadberry (Oxford) "Catching up and falling behind: the economic growth in Russia from 1690s to 1880s", it is the first attempt to calculate Russian GDP for such a long time. Russia was the only economy out of 10 leading economies in the 1900s which did not have it before now. The paper is accepted in the Journal of Economic History, which is the leading journal in my field. Thanks to this work, now GDP for Danish economy of the same time is being constructed with the co/operation with the Prof. Paul Sharp, so we can move forward the comparison of both economies further.
2. The article with my other co-author Mikolaj Malinowski (Groningen) is under status revise and resubmit in the Journal of Economic History. This article shows how huge was the level of inequality in Russia in the beginning of the 19th century, what hindered economic and political development of Russia very early. That is one of the main difference from the Danish economy, which was as poor as Russian but did not suffer from the high level of inequality.
3. Article "Living standards in Russia in regional and historical perspective" is under status revise and resubmit in Rivista.
3. A draft of another article "Probably the best butter in the world: How a few Danes reshaped the Russian dairy industry in the late 19th century" is now on the stage of finalising. I plan to submit it to the journal "The Economic History Review." the article is answering the following research questions. How was knowledge transmission implemented in countries without formal rules for entrepreneurship? How did high technology food industries function in countries without state control for quality? How can autocratic rulers create and destroy economic miracles?
4. I started a writing a book "How the Western Enlightenment supressed the economic rights of Russian women", where there will be a comparison chapter how the Western Enlightenment effected the periphery of the economy.
I got the grant to help me with data collection: 2022 Co-Investigator. Carlsberg Infrastructure grant (22,500 euros), University of Southern Denmark (Denmark).
Dessimination.
Public presence:
I gave interviews in English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8Hp5jQmxg(öffnet in neuem Fenster)I gave interviews in Russian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mieBFyPHO5o(öffnet in neuem Fenster) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7bF7EX7xxA(öffnet in neuem Fenster) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vMw-L3RTOs(öffnet in neuem Fenster) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5w5ktXMYoA(öffnet in neuem Fenster)I presented different parts of the projects on different conferences:
2023 ASSA, New Orleans, USA
2022 Comparative Economics and Policy-making in Transition, London, UK
2022 Baltic connections, Jyvaskyla, Finland
2022 Ninth CEPR Economic History Symposium, Odense, Denmark
2022 Annual Economic History Society, Cambridge, UK
