Biographies
Richard Britnell is a professor emeritus in the Department of History, University of Durham. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His pioneering research largely focuses upon the influence of markets in medieval England’s countryside and cities.
Representative Publications Include:
Britain and Ireland 1050-1530: Economy and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
“The Woollen Textile Industry of Suffolk in the Later Middle Ages”, in Livia Visser-Fuchs, ed., Tant d’Emprises - So Many Undertakings: Essays in Honour of Anne Sutton, The Ricardian, XXIII (2003), 86-99
“Specialisation of Work in England, 1100-1300”, Economic History Review, liv (2001), 1-16
“Local Trade, Remote Trade: Institutions, Information and Market Integration, 1050-1330”, in S. Cavaciocchi, ed., Fiere e mercati nella integrazione delle economie europee. Secc. XIII-XVIII, Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", Prato, Serie II - Atti delle "Settimani di Studi" e altri Convegni, 32 (Florence: Le Monnier, 2001), 185-203
“Urban Demand in the English Economy, 1300-1600”, in J.A. Galloway, ed., Trade, Urban Hinterlands and Market Integration c.1300-1600 (London: Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, 2000), 1-21
The Closing of the Middle Ages? England, 1471-1529 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997)
William Caferro is an associate professor in the Department of History, Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph. D. from Yale University in 1992 (his advisor was Harry Miskimin) His research interests include war and public finance in fourteenth century Italy as well as banking and the silk industry in the fifteenth century.
Representative Publications Include:
John Hawkwood, An English Mercenary in Fourteenth Century Italy (Johns
Hopkins Press), 2006
Contesting the Renaissance (Blackwell Press), 2006
(with Philip Jacks) The Spinelli: Merchants, Patrons and Bankers in Renaissance Florence (Penn State University Press), 2001
Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena (John Hopkins Press), 1998
Mauricio Drelichman is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, University of British Columbia. His research in economic history focuses on the microfoundations of medieval and early modern Spanish institutions and their role in the stagnation and decline of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Representative Publications Include:
"The Curse of Moctezuma: American Silver and the Dutch Disease.” Explorations in Economic History 42 (3): 349-380. July 2005.
"All that Glitters: Precious Metals, Rent Seeking and the Decline of Spain." European Review of Economic History, forthcoming.
Ivana Elbl is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Trent University. She is also the Chief Editor of the Portuguese Studies Review. Her work deals with social and economic aspects of the late medieval Portugal and early Portuguese overseas expansion.
Representative Publications Include:
" 'Slaves Are a Very Risky Business ...': Supply and Demand in the Early Atlantic Slave Trade."
"Prestige Considerations and the Changing Interest of the Portuguese Crown in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1441-1580;"
"The State of Research: Henry 'the Navigator'.
Haggay Etkes is a PhD student in the Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Haggay holds a M.Sc. in Economics and Economic History (LSE), an M.A. Middle Eastern history and his B.A. was in Economics and Middle Eastern history (both Tel Aviv University). His dissertation, “The Impact of Early Globalization on the Ottoman Levant” explores the economic history of the Ottoman districts of Gaza and Jerusalem during the 16th century. It focuses on the impact of early modern globalization upon local urban and rural economies. The dissertation also examines the patterns of protection payments paid to bandit tribes, and the impact of climate fluctuations on the local demography. It draws on a new five period data set based on Ottoman tax records. Haggay expects to complete his dissertation in 2007 or 2008. He speaks English, Hebrew, Arabic and is currently acquiring working knowledge in Turkish.
Ben Forster is an associate professor in the Department of History, University of Western Ontario, and is the Departmental Chair. He has published on nineteenth-century economic policy, on tariffs, and on furniture manufacturing. He is currently working on a book on furniture production in Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Representative Publications Include:
A Conjunction of Interests: Business, Politics, and Tariffs 1825-1879 (University of Toronto Press), 1986.
"The Diversity of Industrial Experience: Cabinet and Furniture Manufacture in Late-Nineteenth Century Ontario," (with Kris Inwood), Enterprise and Society, Vol. 4 (2003): 326-371.
Jeffrey Fynn-Paul has recently defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled “The Catalan City of Manresa in the 14th and 15th Centuries: A Political, Social, and Economic History,” at the University of Toronto. His committee included Mark Meyerson (supervisor), John Munro, and Nicholas Terpstra; the external reader was Paul Freedman of Yale University. Jeffrey currently resides in Connecticut, where his wife is pursuing a Ph.D. in eighteenth-century pastoral poetry. While teaching at the Universities of Connecticut and Hartford, Jeffrey continues to research various aspects of urban life in the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Mediterranean. Working Papers include:
Representative Publications Include:
Women Heads of Household in a Renaissance Iberian City: A Study of 96 women
from the Liber Manifesti of Manresa, 1408-1411.
A Jewish family of Medieval Spain: The Barons of Manresa, 1298-1348.
On the Origins of Domestic Slavery in Late Medieval Catalonia, 1380-1420.
…and Hold the Lettuce: A Study of the Medieval Catalan Diet, based on the Expense Account of the Veguer of Manresa, 1378-81.
Karine van der Beek–Gabay is a graduate student in the Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is completing her PhD thesis this year, under the supervision of Nathan Sussman. Her doctoral research emphasizes the role of political elites in economic development, concentrating on northwestern Europe during the middle ages. Karine recently spent a year in DELTA, Paris with the financial support of a Marie Curie fellowship and studied the documentation from the region of Ponthieu during the 11th-12th centuries in order to determine whether a relationship between the construction of watermills and the political structure existed. Her research focuses upon questions of market structure and competition, technology adoption, agency problems, development and the political economy.
George Grantham is a professor in the Department of Economics, McGill University. His research interests include the development of the French economy in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly the nature of agricultural change and interactions between agricultural and industrial growth. He also analyzes economic development in the medieval period. He is currently completing his book: The Long Agricultural Revolution: Markets and Technology in the Transformation of European Agriculture Since the Neolithic.
Representative Publications Include:
The Early Medieval Transition. On the Origins of the Manor and Feudal Government: Some Problems of Interpretation (Working Paper, Department of Economics, McGill University)
“Agricultural Productivity and the Market in the Age of Traditional Husbandry,” in Agrarian Change and Economic Development Before the Industrial Revolution, eds. R. Brenner and J. de Vries (under review at Cambridge University Press)
“Contra Ricardo: On the Macro-Economics of Europe’s Agrarian Age.” European Review of Economic History 3:2 (1999): 199-232
"The French agricultural capital stock, 1789-1914", Research in Economic History, Vol. 16 (1996), pp. 37-83
“Divisions of Labour: Agricultural Productivity in Pre-Industrial Europe.” Economic History Review 46:3 (1993): 478-502
Avner Greif is the Bowman Family Endowed Professor in the Humanities and Sciences, Department of Economics, Stanford University. The recipient of numerous honors and awards for his work, his current research focuses upon institutional development and economic growth in pre-modern Europe, as well as coercion and markets.
Representative Publications Include:
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2005/2006)
A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change,” (with David Laitin) American Political Science Review, 2004
“Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 158, Vol. 1 (2002): 168-204
“Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies,” Journal of Political Economy, (October 1994)
“Coordination, Commitment and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Gild” (with Paul Milgrom and Barry Weingast), Journal of Political Economy, (August 1994)
Eona Karakacili is an assistant professor of medieval history in the Department of History, University of Western Ontario. Her research examines the influences of agricultural productivity and income distribution to growth, as well as issues in global divergence of wealth, with a focus in the latter on development within the agricultural sector. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Alexander Gershenkron Prize for best dissertation from the Economic History Association and she is in the process of turning this into book: Growth Before Industrialization: English Agrarian Labour Productivity During the Fourteenth Century.
Representative Publications Include:
"English Agrarian Labor Productivity Rates Before the Black Death: A Case Study," Journal of Economic History Vol. 64, No. 1 (March 2004): 24-60.
"Peasants, Productivity, and Profit in the Open Fields of England: A Study of Economic and Social Development," (Dissertation Summary), Journal of Economic History 62 (2002): 538-43.
John Langdon is a professor in the Department of History, University of Alberta. His research focuses upon the British history of technology, medieval agricultural history and more general issues in medieval European economic history.
Representative Publications Include:
Mills in the Medieval Economy: England 1300 - 1540 (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 2004)
“Inland Water Transport in Medieval England: the View from the Mills”, Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 26 (2000), pp. 75-82.
“The Mobilization of Labour in the Milling Industry of Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England”, Canadian Journal of History, vol. 31 (1996), pp. 37-58.
"Lordship and Peasant Consumerism in the Milling Industry of Early Fourteenth-century England", Past and Present, no. 145 (Nov., 1994), pp. 3-46.
Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation: the Use of Draught Animals in English Farming from 1066 to 1500 (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, 1986)
Guanglin Liu is currently a visiting professor of East Asian Studies at New York State University at Albany. His research interests focus on long-term economic changes and the political economy of pre-modern China. He received his Ph.D degree in history from Harvard in November 2005. His Ph. D thesis compares the Tang-Song transition (from the ninth to the twelfth century) and the Ming-Qing transition (from the sixteenth and the eighteenth century), the two parallels in the developments of pre-industrial China’s market economy. It also emphasizes different paths of later imperial China’s state building in relation to market dynamism, particularly the contrasting variances in the tax mechanism among the Song, Ming and Qing states.
Anne McCants is an associate professor in the Department of History, MIT. Her research is centered on issues in historical demography and the standard of living in pre-industrial Europe. Her current research is an investigation into the origins and the socio-economic scope of the consumer revolution in the Dutch Republic. A major part of this project consists of an analysis of nearly one thousand probate inventories drawn up in the second half of the eighteenth century on the properties of low- to middle-income burgers from the city of Amsterdam.
Representative Publications Include:
“The Transmission of Assets and Family Networks: Managing the Property and Care of Orphans in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam.” In Family Welfare: Gender, Property and Inheritance Since the Seventeenth Century. Eds. D. Green and A. Owens (Greenwood Press), forthcoming
“Petty Debts and Family Networks: The Credit Markets of Widows and Women in Eighteenth Century Amsterdam.” In Women and Credit. Ed. B. Lemire (Berg Publishers), 2001
Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam. (University of Illinois Press), 1997
“Meeting Needs and Suppressing Desires: Consumer Choice Markets and Historical Data.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 2:2 (1995): 191-207
Branko Milanovic is a senior fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington; lead economist in World Bank Research Department, unit dealing with poverty, income distribution and household surveys; adjunct professor at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Washington. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1987 from Belgrade University, Yugoslavia with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. His research encompasses issues of methodology and empirics of inequality; poverty and social policy in transition economies, and globalization and inequality.
Representative Publications Include:
Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality, Princeton University Press, June 2005
Income and Influence: Social Policy in Emerging Market Economies (co-authored with Ethan Kapstein), Upjohn 2003
“True World Income Distribution 1988 and 1993: First Calculations Based on Household Surveys Alone”, Economic Journal, 2002
Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries (co-authored with J. Braithwaite and Ch. Grootaert) St. Martin’s Press, 1999
Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy, World Bank, 1998
John Munro is a professor emeritus in the Department of Economics, University of Toronto. He is also an elected Member (Foreign) of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, 2000 and a member of the Executive Board of the Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica 'Francesco Datini da Prato', Italy (elected member of its Comitato Scientifico, from 1999), 2003. His research concentrates on the economic history of medieval and early modern Europe: the Low Countries and England, 1200 – 1600. His work examines industrial and labour history: with a focus on textiles; monetary and financial history; as well as money and prices (including wages) in these regions.
Recent Publications Include:
Munro, John, "Spanish Merino Wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: an Industrial Transformation in the Late-Medieval Low Countries", Economic History Review 58:3 (2005), 431-484
Munro, John, "The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution: Usury, Rentes, and Negotiability", The International History Review 25:3 (2003), 505-562
Munro, John, "Medieval Woollens I: Textiles, Textile Technology, and Industrial Organisation, c. 800 - 1500; [and] Medieval Woollens II: The Western European Woollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500", in The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, David Jenkins, eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2003, 181-324
Munro, John, "Wage Stickiness, Monetary Changes, and Real Incomes in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, 1300 - 1500: Did Money Matter?", Research in Economic History, 21 (2003), 185-297
Munro, John, "The 'New Institutional Economics' and the Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: the Textile Trades, Warfare, and Transaction Costs", Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 88:1 (2001), 1-47
Sevket Pamuk is a professor of Economics and Economic History, Bogazici University, Istanbul. He is currently the President of the European Historical Economics Society. His research focuses on questions of long-term economic growth and living standards in comparative perspectives.
Representative Publications (in English) Include:
“Urban Real Wages around the Eastern Mediterranean in Comparative Perspective, 1100-2000”, Research in Economic History, 2005 Annual Volume.
“Institutional Change and the Longevity of the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1800”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 35, 2004, pp. 225-47.
“Evolution of Ottoman Financial Institutions, 1600-1914”, Financial History Review, Vol. 11, 2004
“Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914”, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 62, 2002, pp. 292-321 (with Suleyman Ozmucur).
A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000.
Karl Gunnar Persson is a professor in the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively on issues regarding markets and productivity for periods ranging from the middle ages until the twentieth century. His current research focuses upon commodity market integration and information networks as well as the political economy of the Enlightment. He is now the in the process of completing his book on An Economic History of Pre-Industrial Europe (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Representative Publications Include:
Mind the Gap! Transport costs and price convergence in the Atlantic economy,1850-1900. European Review of Economic History, Vol 8, Part 2, 2004.
Market Integration and Transport Costs in France 1825-1903: A Threshold Error Correction Approach to the Law of One Price, (w. Mette Ejrnæs) Explorations in Economic History 37 (2000): 149-73.
Grain Markets in Europe 1500-1900. Integration and Deregulation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
'Total Factor Productivity Growth in English Agriculture, 1250-1450', in Maddison, A. and van der Wee, H. (eds), Economic Growth and Structural Change, Paris-Milan, 1994
Was There a Productivity Gap between Fourteenth- Century Italy and England? Economic History Review 46,1(1993): 104-14.
Pre-Industrial Economic Growth: Social Organization and Technological Progress in Europe, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Pierre Reynard is an associate professor in the Department of History, University of Western Ontario. He is interested in the social, economic, and environmental history of early modern and modern France and Europe. His recent work was focused on pre-industrial manufacturing, its techniques and strategies, and relations with the state. His current research is centred on attitudes toward the environment, urban expansion, and entrepreneurship.
Representative Publications Include:
"Probing the Boundaries of Environmental Concerns: Reactions to Hydraulic Public Works in Eighteenth-century France", Environment and History, U.K., v. 9, n. 3, pp. 251-273, 2003
"Public Order and Privilege. Eighteenth-Century French Roots of Environmental Regulation", Technology and Culture, v. 43, n. 1, pp. 1-28, 2002
"The Language of Bankruptcy: Explaining Commercial Failure in 18th Century France", Journal of European Economic History, Italy, v. 30, n. 2, pp. 355-390, 2001
Histoires de papier. La papeterie auvergnate et ses historiens (Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal), 2001
"Manufacturing Quality in the Pre-industrial Age - Finding Value in Diversity", The Economic History Review, UK, v. LIII, n. 3, pp. 493-516, 2000.
"Early Modern State and Enterprise: Shaping the Dialogue between the French Monarchy and the Paper Manufacture", French History, UK, v. 13, n. 1, pp.1-25, 1999
Ethan Segal is an assistant professor in History Department at Michigan State University. He completed his Ph.D. in history at Stanford University, specializing in East Asia before 1600, and has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tokyo. His research interests include money and trade in medieval Japan, proto-nationalism and identity in pre-modern societies, gender in Japanese history, and the role of textbooks and narrative in history education. He is currently working on a book entitled Economic Growth and Changes in Elite Power Structures in Medieval Japan.
Representative Publications Include:
“The Textbook Controversy and Domestic National History (Kyokasho mondai kara jikokushi ninshiki no arikata wo kangaeru).” Journal of Historical Studies (Rekishingaku kenkyu), No. 758 (January 2002)
“Moko shurai to chuseiteki aidentitii.” Journal of History of the Aoyama Historical Society (Shiyu), Vol. 33 (March 2001)
Maya Shatzmiller is a professor in the Department of History, University of Western Ontario, and a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada. She specializes in the history of the medieval Islamic world, particularly in Spain and the Middle East. She recently completed a book on women's property rights in Islamic law entitled Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Islamic Law and Society. She is now engaged in a new book project analyzing Islamic trade in the medieval world.
Representative Publications Include:
“Islamic Institutions and Property Rights: the Case of the ‘Public Good’ Waqf.” Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient 44/1 (2001): 44-74
The Berbers and the Islamic State (Markus Wiener Publishers), 2000
“Women and Wage Labour in the Medieval Islamic West: Legal Issues in an Economic Context.” Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient 39/4 (1997): 1-33
Labour in the Medieval Islamic World (E. J. Brill), 1993
L'historiographie mérinide: Ibn Khaldun et ses contemporains (E. H. Brill), 1982
Terry Sicular is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario. Her research centers upon general issues in China's economy, with a frequent focus on China's rural economy as well as income distribution and poverty in China.
Representative Publications Include:
“What Can We Learn From the Chinese Revolution?” Home Oeconomicus 21,2 (2004): 225-250
"Moving Toward Markets? Labor Allocation in Rural China," Journal of Development Economics, 71(2): 561-583 (2003), with Audra Bowlus.
"Rethinking Inequality Decomposition, with Evidence from Rural China," Economic Journal, 112(476): 93-106 (2002), with Jonathan Morduch.
"Politics, Growth, and Inequality in Rural China: Does it Pay to Join the Party?" Journal of Public Economics, 77(1): 331-356 (2000), with Jonathan Morduch.
“Capital Flight and Foreign Investment: Two Tales From China and Russia,” The World Economy (1998): 589-609
Al Slivinski is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario. His current research interests include models of political elections and the economies of non-profit organizations.
Representative Publications Include:
"Nonprofits and the Market," to appear as a Chapter of the 2nd Edition of The Nonprofit Research Handbook, Yale University Press, with Eleanor Brown.
"Team Incentives and Organizational Structure," The Journal of Public Economic Theory, 4: 185-206 (2002).
"Rational Nonprofit Entrepreneurship," The Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 7: 551-571 (Winter 1998), with Marc Bilodeau.
“Rival Charities,” The Journal of Public Economies, 66: 449-467 (December 1997), with Marc Bilodeau.
“A Model of Political Competition With Citizen-Candidates,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 111: 65-96 (February 1996).
Ian Straughn is currently a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. An archaeologist by training, his research interests include the development of early Islamic urbanism, the production of sacred space, and the role of landscapes and spatiality in the formation of political and economic systems. His dissertation Constructing the “Abode of Islam”: Landscapes, Spatiality and the Islamic Discursive Tradition in Muslim Society uses archaeological case studies from northern Syria to investigate the social production of space in Islamic contexts focusing specifically on conceptualizations of the city and the frontier. He is also developing a future project with ethnographic, archaeological and textual components that will examine the practice and theory of environmentalism in Muslim societies.
Nathan Sussman is an associate professor in the Departments of Economics and History, Hebrew University as well as a Research Fellow at CEPR. He works in the fields of medieval economic history with an emphasis on monetary history and more recently he has begun to examine income distribution in medieval Paris. His research includes later international financial history with an emphasis on the market for sovereign debt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Representative Publications Include:
Mauro Paolo, Nathan Sussman and Yishay Yafeh , Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization: Sovereign Bond Spreads in 1870-1913 and Today, forthcoming Oxford University Press
“Debasements, Royal Revenues, and Inflation in France During the Hundred Years’ War, 1415-1422.” The Journal of Economic History 53, 1 (1993): 44-70.
“The Bullion Famine Reconsidered -- A Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments Analysis : Evidence from France 1360-1415.” Journal of Economic History, March 1998, pp. 126-155.
Mauro Paolo, Nathan Sussman and Yishay Yafeh “Emerging Market Spreads: Then versus Now”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2002, pp. 695-733.
Sussman, Nathan and Joseph Zeira, “Commodity Money Inflation: Theory and Evidence from France in 1350-1430” Journal of Monetary Economics, November 2003, pp 1979- 1693.
Dan Trefler is the J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Canada Research Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity at the Rotman School of Management. He was born and raised in Toronto. He has degrees in economics from the University of Toronto (B.A.), Cambridge University (M.Phil.), and UCLA (Ph.D.). As a Ph.D. student he studied theoretical learning models under John Riley. However, after being read the 'riot act' by Edward Leamer, he decided that empirical work might not be a bad idea after all. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. As well, he is a Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Analysis (University of Toronto), a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Academic Advisory Board for Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and serves on the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. He is the receipient of the Canadian Economics Association's Rae Award for Excellence in Research and co-editor of the Journal of International Economics. Trefler's research centres on theinterface of international trade with institutions, technological change, skill acquisition, income distribution, and domestic politics. His current research focuses on the domestic and international levers for promoting Canadian competitiveness.
Representative Publications Include:
Zhu, Susan and Trefler, Daniel, "Trade and inequality in developing countries: a general equilibrium analysis", Journal of International Economics 65 (2005), 21-48
Trefler, Daniel, "The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement", American Economic Review 94 (2004), 870-895
Trefler, Daniel, "The Case of the Missing Trade and Other Mysteries: Reply", American Economic Review 92 (2002), 405-410
Antweiler, Werner and Trefler, Daniel, "Increasing Returns to Scale and All That: A View From Trade", American Economic Review 92 (2002), 93-119
Trefler, Daniel and Zhu, Susan, "Beyond the Algebra of Explanation: HOV for the Age of Technology", American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 90 (2000), 145-149
Andrew Wareham is a research associate at King's College, London (UK). He is a long-run historian who specializes in early medieval European history, English local economic and social history, and humanities computing. In addition to working on the Durham Liber Vitae Project (www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/dlv/), he is undertaking research on the limitations of the technologies in taxation and water management.
Representative Publications Include:
Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia (Boydell & Brewer, 2005)
“The Transformation of Kinship and the Family in Late Anglo-Saxon England” Early Medieval Europe X (2001): 375-399
(with A.P.M. Wright), VCH Cambridgeshire x, North-eastern Cambridgeshire (Oxford University Press, 2002)
“The ‘Feudal Revolution’ in Eleventh Century East Anglia.” Anglo-Norman Studies XXII (1999): 293-322
Ed. with A.J. Bijsterveld, H.B. Teunis, Negotiating Secular and Ecclesiastical Power: Western Europe in the Central Middle Ages (Brepols, 1999).
Jeffrey G. Williamson is a professor in the Department of Economics, Harvard University. He is also the Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Faculty Associate at the Center for International Development, Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research. Awarded numerous honors for his research and teaching, in addition, he is past-President of the Economic History Association (1994-1995).
Some topics he has explored recently include: the growth and distributional implications of the demographic transition in Asia 1950-2025 and the Atlantic economy 1820-1940; the impact of international migration, capital flows and trade on factor price convergence in the greater Atlantic economy since 1830; the sources of globalization backlash before World War I; the causes of the cessation of convergence during the de-globalization years between 1914 and 1950; a detailed analysis of both the sources and consequences of the mass migrations prior to the 1920s and after the 1950s; the economic implications of 1492. His two new research topics are: A project establishing a data base and then the exploration of the evolution of world factor prices and living standards since c. 1489, involving the collection and analysis of factor and commodity price data covering the OECD, eastern Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, Latin America, and Asia. The second new project will focus on economic change in the Third World before 1940, including debates over terms of trade, tariff policy, factor supply, de-industrialization, re-industrializaton, South-South mass migration, and the underlying economic-demographic fundamentals of growth.
Representative (Book) Publications Include:
Globalization and the Poor Periphery Before the Modern Era: the Ohlin Lectures (MIT Press), 2005
Globalization and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance (MIT Press), 2005
Globalization in Historical Perspective, with Micheal Bordo and Alan H. Taylor (University of Chicago Press), 2003
The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950, with Sevket Pamuk (Routledge), 2000
Globalization and History: The Evolution of a 19th Century Atlantic Economy, with Kevin H. O’Rourke (MIT Press), 1999