Economic History Workshop, Spring 2012

Yale Department of Economics

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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.

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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*
 
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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Last updated: January 30 2012