" Economists are, in our day and age, best known as policy experts. This book is about one
of them, Jan Tinbergen. He paved the way for this new type of economist. The economic …

Summary 160 years after the discovery of its waterborne transmission and 120 years after
the development of the first-generation of vaccines, typhoid fever remains a major health …

Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central
and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno …

This article revisits the origins of internationalism in the field of health and shows how the
cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century, much like the current coronavirus crisis …

Photographs of the German and Soviet pavilions facing off at the Paris International
Exposition in 1937 offer an iconic image of the interwar period, and with good reason. This …

Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between
1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused …

Economists began using models between the First and Second World Wars. The first
econometric model of the United States was produced by Jan Tinbergen at the League of …

Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of
global health for local and international health organizations. Drawing on archival material …

The historiography of the twentieth-century refugee typically unfolds as a tale of national
displacement followed by international surrogate protection. This article challenges that …

The article de-centres the global history of disease by examining the agency of Eastern
European expertise at international organizations and during decolonization. It challenges …