Business & Economic History Workshop

Unless noted otherwise, all workshops will be held on Fridays in SSC 4317 from 3:00-4:30pm. All are warmly invited to attend. Queries? Contact the workshop organizer: Eona Karakacili.

2009

March 27 - 1:30-3:00pm, SSC 9430 (Dean's Office)

Anne McCants, M.I.T. - "Wearing the World: Globally Traded Textiles During the Industrious Revolution"

2008

October 24 - 1:30-3:00pm

Eric Chaney, Harvard University - "Ethnic Cleansing and the Persistence of Extractive Institutions: Evidence from the Expulsion of the Moriscos"

2007

September 21 - 2:00-3:30pm

Stephen Quinn, Texas Christian University - "An Economic Explanation of the Early Bank of Amsterdam, Debasement, Bills of Exchange, and the Emergence of the First Central Bank."

October 12

Mary Mackinnon, McGill University - "From the One-Room Classroom to High School: The Provision of Education in British Columbia, 1900-1920." (with Chris Minns)

November 3

Medieval Social and Political Institutions: Their Economic Effects (conference)

November 30

Carol Hua Shiue, University of Colorado, Boulder- "Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans, 1300 - 1850."

January 25, 2008 - (Location SSC Rm 4107)

Trevon P. Logan, Ohio State University - "Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill: New Evidence From the American Past." (with Joseph Kaboski)

February 14, 2008 - 11:30 (Location SSC Rm 9430)

Tracy K. Dennison, California Institute of Technology - "The Icon and the Contract: Culture Versus Institutions in Imperial Russia"

2006

Monday, October 23 - 2:00-3:30

Saumitra Jha, Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (Harvard University) "Trade, Institutions, and Religious Conflict in India." (Joint with the Department of Economics)

Friday, November 17 - 1:30-3:00

Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University) "The Limits of Equality: Insights From the Israel Kibb utz" (Joint with the Department of Economics)

Friday, December 1 - 2:00-3:30 - [CANCELLED]

Alan Dye, Barnard College (Columbia University) "The Interwar Turning Point in US-Cuban Trade Relations: A View Through Sugar-Company Stock Prices." (with Richard Sicotte) (Joint with the Department of Economics)

2005

Friday, October 28

Peter Rousseau (Vanderbilt University) "Legal-Political Factors and the Historical Revolution of the Finance-Growth Link" (with Michael Bordo)

Thursday, November 10 - location: T.B.A. 12:00-1:30

Karine van der Beek-Gabay (graduate student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Coercion Power, Property Rights and Technological Adoption: Investment in Watermills in France, 11th to 12th Centuries"

Joint with Department Colloquium, Department of Economics

Friday, November 11-13

Medieval Global Economies Conference

Friday, November 18

R. Daniel Wadhawani (Harvard Business School)
"Creating Citizen Savers: The Political Economy of Personal Finance in Nineteenth Century America"

Friday, December 2

Charles Calomiris (Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School) “Are There Economies of Scope Between Lending and Underwriting?”

Joint with Department Colloquium, Department of Economics

March 10

Ann Carlos, University of Colorado-Boulder 3:00-4:30
"Brokers, Networks, and Markets During the South Sea Bubble"
With Larry Neal and Kirsten Wandschneider; joint with Department Colloquium, Department of Economics

March 24

Juliette Levy (University of California-Riverside) "Bad Credit or Bad Husbands?: Property Rights, Mortgage & Marriage in Merida, Yucatan, 1850-1899."

Joint with Women's Studies

March 31

J.C. Herbert Emery (University of Calgary)
"Un-American' or Unnecessary? America's Rejection of Compulsory Government Health Insurance Before 1930." Joint with EPRI, Department of Economics

April 7

Kris Inwood (University of Guelph)
"A Long-Run Perspective on Physical Well-being in Canada" (with John Cranfield)

April 14

Jane Humphries (Oxford University) "Child Labour During the Industrial Revolution"
This Workshop is cancelled