University Seminar in Economic History

University Economic History Seminar Schedule

Fall 2022

Oct 6	Elizabeth Reynolds, Washington University	The Pangdatsang Trading Firm: Politics, Currency Exchange, and Trans-Tibet Business during WWII
Nov 3	Jane Knodell, University of Vermont	Making a Central Bank out of the Federal Reserve: a Historical Perspective on Wartime Amendments to the Federal Reserve Act
Dec 1	Brian Marein, University of Toronto	Migration in the Early 20th Century Caribbean: Evidence from Dominican Residency Permits (co-authored with Craig Palsson)
Spring 2023
February 2	Maria Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics	China inside out: explaining silver flows in the UK-Asia triangular trade, 1820s-1870 Appendix-paper figures Appendix-data & sources Appendix-silver prices & exchange rates Appendix-specie pints figures
March 2	Alan Taylor, Columbia SIPA	TBA
April 13	Charlotte Bartels, Harvard University and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)	TBA
May 4	Manuel Bautista Gonzalez, University of Oxford	TBA

 

The seminars for Fall 2022 will be held from 6:30 to 8:00 EST on Zoom. (NOTE the change in time and format). You must register (that is, RSVP) in advance with our rapporteur, David Samuel Lerer, to receive an invitation with the Zoom link and passcode.

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