Economics 589b
Economic History Workshop
Organized by: Timothy Guinnane and Naomi Lamoreaux
The weekly workshop in economic history is a central part of the program. Speakers
include Yale faculty and graduate students as well as distinguished scholars from other
institutions. Papers are normally available in advance, and we emphasize informal
discussion of the paper. All are welcome, regardless of department or institutional
affiliation.
You can join the Economic
History Mailing List if you want to receive announcements about the Economic
History Workshop.
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Spring
2012 |
Monday, 2:30 -3:50 pm, 28
Hillhouse Avenue, Room 106 |
| February 20 |
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania,
"Re-considering Risk and the 'Maghribī Traders': Agency Relations,
Contract Enforcement, and the Economy of the Eleventh-Century
Islamic Mediterranean" |
| February 27 |
Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University, and Daniel Keniston,
Yale University, "Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth
Illuminated by 19th Century Great Fires" |
March 22*
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Claudia Goldin, Harvard University, "The Career Cost of
Family" (joint with
Labor
and Public Economics Workshop)
*Note change of date/ time: Thursday, 4:10-5:40 |
| March 26 |
Metin Cosgel, University of Connecticut, "Inequality of
Wealth in the Ottoman Empire" |
| April 2 |
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University, "Precious Albion:
Factor Prices, Technological Change and the British Industrial
Revolution" |
| April 9 |
Philip Hoffman, Caltech, "Why Was It Europeans Who
Conquered the World?" |
| April 16 |
Gary Libecap, UC Santa Barbara, "Addressing Global
Externalities: What Does History Tell Us?" |
| April 23 |
Jan de Vries, UC Berkeley, ""Taxing the Staff of Life:
Optimal Tax Policy in the Dutch Republic" |
| April 30 |
Christian Dippel, UCLA, "Franchise Extension and Elite
Persistence: The Post-Slavery Caribbean Plantation Complex" |
| May 7 |
Nancy Qian, Yale University, "The Institutional Causes of
China's Great Famine, 1959-61" |
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Economic History Lunch
Past Seminars
Schedule maintained by
Susan Olmsted
Last updated: January 30 2012
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