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Friday 12-2

Inequality and Economic Progress

• James Heckman (Chicago) and Petra Todd (Pennsylvania), "Understanding The Sources of Black Economic Progress in the Twentieth Century: Social Action vs. Private Choice"
• William Collins (Vanderbilt) and Robert Margo (Vanderbilt), "Race and Home Ownership: A Century's View"

Technology and Business History

• Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College), "Copyrights, the Infringement of Intellectual Property, and American Economic Development, 1790-1910"
• Steven Usselman (Georgia Tech) "Government and the American Computer Industry: Public Policies, Private Platforms"
• Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA), Daniel Raff (Pennsylvania), and Peter Temin (MIT), "The Evolving Structure of Coordination: Towards A New Synthesis of American Business History"

 

Friday 2:30-4:30

Values and Economic Growth

• William Easterly (World Bank), "The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development"
• Richard Easterlin (USC), "America's Differential Impact on World Culture"
• David Dollar (World Bank) and Aart Kraay (World Bank), "Property rights, political rights, and the development of poor countries in the post-colonial period"

Wars and the Structure of Governments

• Chair: Brad DeLong. Discussants: Brad DeLong
• Philip Hoffman (Caltech) and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA), "Wars and the Evolution of Fiscal Regimes in Europe 1700-2000"
• Jari Eloranta (European University Institute), "Filling the Void? Implications of the Lack of American Military Leadership on the Military Spending of European Democracies, 1920-1938"
• Michael Edelstein (Queens College, CUNY), "The Size of U.S. Armed Forces During World War II"

Plenary Session: Friday 5-6:30

• Jared Diamond (UCLA), "Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents in the Past 13,000 Years?"
• Jeffrey Sachs (Harvard)

Drinks and Reception, Museum of Contemporary Art: 6:30-

Saturday 8-9:30

Economic Warfare

• Lance Davis (Caltech) and Stanley Engerman (University of Rochester), "International Law and Naval Blockades: The United States, Great Britain, and Germany in World War I, World War II, and the Cold War"
• Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers University) and Leonardo Caruana (CEU San Pablo University), "A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing: Economic Warfare in Spain and Portugal, 1939-1944"

The Great Depression: Macro

• Christina Romer and Chiang-Tai Hsieh, "Understanding the Gold Standard and the Great Depression"
• Pierre Siklos (Wilfred Laurier University), "Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada"

 

Saturday 9:45-11:15

The Great Depression: Banking

• Joseph Mason (Drexel University), Ali Anari (Teaxas A & M), and James Kolan (Texas A &M), "The Role of Failed-Bank Liquidation Rates in the Propagation of the Great Depression"
• Alan Taylor (UC Davis) and Gerardo della Paolera (Universidad Torcuato di Tella), "Internal versus External Convertibility and Developing Country Financial Crises: Lessons from the Argentine Bailouts of the 1930s"

Productivity

• Paul David (Oxford and Stanford) and Gavin Wright (Stanford), "Early Twentieth Century American Productivity Growth Dynamics"
• Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick) and Sayantan Ghosal (University of Warwick), "Explaining Comparative Productivity Levels in Services: Technology, Organization, and Social Capabilities in Britain, the United States, and Germany"

 

Business Meeting: Saturday 11:30-12:30

Dissertation Session: Saturday 2-4

Deadline not until May 31...

 

Saturday 4:30-6

Celluloid Capitalism: A Roundtable and a Screen

• Mary Yeager (UCLA)
• David Ansen (Newsweek)
• Mary Corey (UCLA)
• John Lithgow (Sol III)

 

Banquet...

Sunday 8-10

Institutions and Economic Growth

• Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Simon Johnson (MIT), and James Robinson (UC Berkeley), "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation"
• Stephen Haber (Stanford), Armando Razo (Stanford) , and Noel Maurer (ITAM), "Credible Commitments and Economic Growth Under Political Instability: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico."
• Cynthia Taft Morris (Smith College), "World Capitalist Growth Patterns: The Myth that Neoclassical Growth Models Apply Worldwide"

Industry: Studies and Structure

• Emily Mechner (Bates College), "The Closing of the Frontier in Barbados: Economies of Scale and the Distributional Impact of the Sugar Revolution"
• Sally Clarke (Texas), "Meeting Your Car Dealer in Court: Lawsuits in the Early Auto Industry"
• Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon) and Werner Troesken (Univ. Of Pittsburgh), "The Puzzling Demise of the Whiskey Trust"

Sunday 10:30-12:30

Foreign Trade and Policy During the American Century

• Hideaki Miyajima (Waseda University), "Transformation of the Japanese Economic System: A Reappraisal of the Occupation"
• Jennifer Frankl (Williams College), "Reducing Transaction Risk in Trade Between Japan and the United States: The Role of General Trading Companies, 1915-1941"
• Alan Dye (Barnard) and Richard Sicotte (University of Calgary), "Governing Foreign Trade: The Effects of Sugar Legislation on US-Cuban Relations"

Geography and the Organization of Economic Activity

• Sukkoo Kim (Washington University), "The Rise and Decline of Density in Economic Activities"
• Paul Rhode (North Carolina), "America's Century and the Rise of California as a Center of Economic Activity"
• Price Fishback (Arizona) and Shawn Kantor (Arizona), "The Impact of the New Deal on Geographic Mobility"

Poster Sessions throughout the program...

This year at the EHA Meeting we will be trying something new: a poster session to run concurrently with the other more formal sessions. We will try to accomodate as many posters as possible, and we will give relative but not absolute priority to graduate students. Anyone who wishes to apply for the poster session, please email eha-mtgs@socrates.berkeley.edu with (a) your name, (b) how to contact you, and (c) a title and an abstract for the paper that you want to display.

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