University Seminar in Economic History

University Economic History Seminar Schedule

Fall 2012

Oct 4	Christopher Hanes, SUNY-Binghamton	Wage Rigidity during the Great Depression (with John A. James)
Nov 1	Mary Tone Rodgers, SUNY-Oswego	An Overlooked Central Bank Rescue: How the Bank of France Ended the American Financial Crisis of 1907 (with James E. Payne)
Dec 6	Timothy Alborn, Lehman College, CUNY	The Strange Death of Mercantilist England: Gold and Protectionism, 1815-1846

 

Spring 2013

Feb 5	Lee Alston University of Colorado at Boulder	Beliefs, Leadership and Economic Development: Making the Critical Transition
Mar 7	Joel Kaye, Barnard College	Equality and Equalization in the Economic Sphere, Part I: the Scholastic Discourse on Usury to 1300
Apr 4	John Deveraux, Queens College CUNY	Growth, Recessions and Banking Crises
May 2	Alan Dye, Barnard College	Where Are All the Yankees? Ownership and Entrepreneurship in Cuban Sugar, 1898-1921

 

Meetings take place at the Columbia University Faculty House 7:30-9:00 pm. We have also have drinks 5:30-6:30 and dinner 6:30-7:30.  (rsvp required for dinner).

The concerns of this seminar are wide ranging in time, place, and method. Emphasis is on the logic of European and American economic growth from feudal times forward with regular, but less frequent, contributions on Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Topics range from microeconomic studies of firms undergoing rapid technical change and households changing their interaction between home and market to more macroeconomic topics concerned with national and regional economic growth performance, the economics of imperialism, and the political economy of the Great Depression. Given the breadth of the seminar’s membership and interests, comparative economic history is often a central element in seminar discussions. Pre-circulation of papers permits vigorous discussion.

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University Seminars in Economic History