2007 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The editors and the Association thank those who were program committee members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, local arrangements committee members, and the meeting coordinator.
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University
John B. Boles, Rice University
John Brown, Clark University
Sarah Buel, University of Texas at Austin
Joyce Burnette, Wabash College
Susan Carter, University of California, Riverside
Latika Chaudhary, Stanford University and Hoover Institute
Sally Clarke, University of Texas at Austin
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
Metin Cosgel, University of Connecticut
Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Dincecco, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies
Jordi Domenech, University of York
Michael Edelstein, City University of New York
Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
Nelka Fernando, Lake Forest College
Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
Alexander Field, Santa Clara University
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
Jane Flaherty, Texas A&M University
Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts
James K. Galbraith, University of Texas at Austin
Hank Gemery, Colby College
Dror Goldberg, Texas A&M University
Avner Greif, Stanford University
Tim Guinnane, Yale University
Michael R. Haines, Colgate College
Carol Heim, University of Massachusetts
Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
Paul M. Hohenberg, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
William K. Hutchinson, Vanderbilt University
Sukkoo Kim, Washington University and NBER
Mackenzie Knowling, Lake Forest College
Naomi Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles
Juliette Levy, University of California, Riverside
Shih-Tse Lo, Concordia University and McGill University
Trevon Logan, Ohio State University
Thomas Maloney, University of Utah
Mary MacKinnon, McGill University
Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John McCusker, Trinity University
David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Carolyn Moehling, Rutgers University
John Moen, University of Mississippi
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Aldo Musacchio, Harvard Business School
Pamela Nickless, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Angela Redish, University of British Columbia
Paul Rhode, University of Arizona
Elyce Rotella, Indiana University
Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University
Frank Smith, Cambridge University Press
William Sundstrom, Santa Clara University
Richard Sutch, University of California, Riverside and NBER
Dhanoos Sutthiphisal, McGill University and NBER
Carolyn Tuttle, Lake Forest College
John Wallis, University of Maryland
Lorena Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
David Weiman, Barnard College
LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri, Columbia
Tom Wiseman, University of Texas at Austin
2008 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 12–14 SEPTEMBER 2008
The sixty-eighth annual meetings of the Economic History Association will be held at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, 12–14 September 2008. The theme of the meetings is “The Engines of Growth: Innovation, Creative Destruction, and Human Capital Accumulation.” The papers chosen for presentation follow:
AFRICA AND COLONIALISM
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan, “Guns for Slaves: The Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade”
Jutta Bolt, University of Groningen, and Dirk Bezemer, University of Groningen, “Understanding Long-Run African Growth: Colonial Institutions or Colonial Education? Evidence from a New Data Set”
Muriel Petit-Konczyk, Lille 2 Université, and Antoine Parent, Université de Nancy 2, “Heart of Darkness, 1919–1939: Did French Colonial Investment Pay?”
AGRICULTURE
Lee Alston, University of Colorado, “[Up and] Down on the Farm: Causes and Consequences of Tenure Mobility”
James Simpson, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “Response to Technological Change: The International Wine Industry, 1850–1939”
Julian Alston, University of California, Davis, and Philip Pardey, University of Minnesota, “Technology Creation and Diffusion and its Economic Consequences in U.S. Agriculture in the Twentieth Century”
ASIA
Gary Hamilton, University of Washington, and Cheng-shu Kao, Tunghai University, “Taiwan's Industrialization: The Rise of a Demand-Responsive Economy”
Kaoru Sugihara, Osaka University, “Resources and the Dependence on Foreign Trade in Japanese Economic Development”
Wen-Kai Lin, University of California, Irvine, “The Impact of Japanese Colonial Rule on Land Property Rights: The Transformation of Land Regimes in Taiwan from Qing Period to Japanese Colonial Period”
ASIA
Wang Yuru, Nankai University, “Economic Growth and the Medium-Long Cycles in Modern China”
Zhang Li, Nankai University, “Changes in the Wuxi Rural Economy and the Possibility of Successful Transformation into a Modern Economy”
Debin Ma, London School of Economics, “Re-Interpreting the Traditional Chinese State in Institutional Perspective”
CORPORATE
Robert Wright, New York University, “Corporate Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in America, 1790–1860”
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College, “Incorporating Industry: Nineteenth-Century General Incorporation Acts for Manufacturing Companies”
Daniel Holt, University of Virginia, “Controlling Capital, Creating Investors: State Public Service Commission Regulation of Corporate Securities in Early-Twentieth-Century United States”
DEMOGRAPHY
Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University, and Karen Rolf, University of Nebraska, Omaha, “The May-December Relationship Since 1850: Age Homogamy in the United States”
Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester, and Enriqueta Camps, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “What do Women do: Is Fertility Decline Universal?”
John Brown, Clark University, “Household Choice of Technique in the Fog of Uncertainty: Strategies of Fertility Control and Patterns of Choice during the German Fertility Transition, 1895–1915”
DEMOGRAPHY
Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis, and Neil Cummins, London School of Economics, “Malthus to Modernity: Income, Fertility, and Economic Growth in England, 1500–1914”
Simone Wegge, City University of New York, “Did Migrant Origins Matter? Migrants vs. Non-Migrants in Nineteenth-Century Germany”
Rui Esteves, University of Oxford, and David Khoudour-Castéras, Universidad Externado de Colombia, “A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants' Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment during the Gold Standard Period”
EDUCATION
Noam Yuchtman, Harvard University, and Davide Cantoni, Harvard University, “Legal Institutions, Medieval Universities, and the Commercial Revolution”
Sun Go, University of California, Davis, “Free Schools in America, 1850–1870: Who Voted for Them, Who Got Them, and Who Paid”
Linda Carter, Vanderbilt University, “A Hard Day's Night: Evening Schools and Child Labor in the United States, 1870–1910”
HEALTH
Timothy Hatton, Australian National University, and Richard Martin, University of Bristol, “Family Size and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1900–1940”
Jaret Treber, Kenyon College, and Melissa Thomasson, Miami University, “The Evolution of Modern Medical Education in the United States: Institutional Changes and the Consolidation of Medical Schools”
John Murray, University of Toledo, “Identifying, Separating, and Managing Asymmetric Information in Early-Twentieth-Century Health Insurance”
HUMAN CAPITAL
Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics, “The Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern England”
David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “The Engineer as a Catalyst of Innovation and Creative Destruction: Industry Case Studies from Twentieth-Century Britain”
Gloria Main, University of Colorado, “From Farm to Factory to School: Child Labor in Southern New England”
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Gerben Bakker, London School of Economics, “The Emergence of Rights-Based Multinationals: Sunk Costs, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Political Economy of Globalization, 1870–2000”
Carsten Burhop, Max Planck Institute, “The Market for Patents in Imperial Germany”
William Phillips, University of Georgia, “The Democratization of Invention in the American South: Antebellum and Postbellum Technology Markets in the United States”
RURAL ORGANIZATION
Alan Dye, Barnard College, “Creative Destruction and Entrepreneurial Obstruction: Cuban Sugar, 1898–1939”
Lorena Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg, “Agricultural Innovation, Environmental Destruction, and the Exploitation of Accumulated Human Capital: Chesapeake Planters, 1790–1820”
Steven Nafziger, Williams College, “Democracy in Tsarist Russia? The Case of the Zemstvo”
TECHNOLOGY
Alexander Field, Santa Clara University, “Does Economic History Need GPTs?”
Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University, Timothy Bresnahan, Stanford University, and Rebecca Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Schumpeterian Competition within Computing Markets and Organizational Diseconomies of Scope”
James Bessen, Boston University, “Economic Growth from the Loom Up”
TRADE AND TRADE BARRIERS
Kevin O'Rourke, Trinity College, Dublin, and Sibylle Lehmann, Trinity College, Dublin, “The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine, “Developmental States? Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Private vs. State Ownership of New Railroad Miles, 1860–1912”
Florian Ploeckl, Yale University, “Borders, Market Size, and Urban Growth, The Case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein During the Nineteenth Century”
URBAN
Gavin Wright, Stanford University, “Urban Entrepreneurship in the Post–Civil Rights South”
Margaret Levenstein, University of Michigan, and Naomi Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Decline of an Innovative Region: Cleveland in the Twentieth Century”
Mark Geiger, University of Minnesota, “A Cohort of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Entrepreneurs: St. Louis Bank Promoters, 1857–1861”
ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 3–5 APRIL 2009, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS
The 2009 annual conference of the Economic History Society will be hosted by the University of Warwick from 3 to 5 April.
The conference program committee welcomes proposals in all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries, and particularly welcomes papers of an interdisciplinary nature. Preference may be given to scholars who did not present a paper at the previous year's conference. Those currently studying for, or who have recently received, a Ph.D. should submit a proposal to the New Researcher session; please contact Maureen Galbraith (ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk) for further information.
The committee invites proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions (three speakers, 1.5 hours duration). The latter should include proposals and synopses for each paper in the session, although the committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be presented in the session if it is accepted. If a session is not accepted, the committee may incorporate one or more of the proposed papers into other panels.
For each proposed paper, please send (by e-mail or via the website) a brief c.v. and a short abstract (including name, postal and e-mail addresses) of 400–500 words to:
Maureen Galbraith; Economic History Society; Dept. of Economic & Social History; University of Glasgow; Lilybank House, Bute Gardens; Glasgow G12 8RT; Scotland, UK. E-mail: ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk. Website: www.ehs.org.uk
For full consideration, proposals must be received by 19 September 2008. Notices of acceptance will be sent to individual paper givers by 17 November 2008.
Should your paper be accepted, you will be asked to provide the following: A brief nontechnical summary of your paper for the “Media Briefings” section of the society's website (by 5 January 2009); an abstract of the paper for inclusion in the conference booklet and website (by 5 January 2009); and an electronic copy of your full paper, or a web address where the paper is available for consultation (by 2 March 2009).
It is the normal expectation that speakers who submit a proposal for a paper to the Conference Committee should be able to obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist overseas speakers who are unable to obtain funding from their own institution or from another source. Details of this fund and an application form can be obtained from the society's administrative secretary, Maureen Galbraith (ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk). It is important that a completed application form is included with the paper proposal and the brief c.v. which are submitted to the conference committee for the September deadline. Only in exceptional circumstances will later applications for support be considered.
