Pedro Lains is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He is editor of Analise Social, Secretary-General of the European Historical Economics Society, and member of the Instituto Laureano Figuerola at the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. He was Director of Imprensa de Ciencias Sociais (2004-7) and President of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association (2003-7). He has published in Analise Social, European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Historical Research, Open Economies Review, Research in Economic History,...