University Seminar in Economic History
Co-chairs 2022-2023:
Alan Dye, Barnard College ( adye@barnard.edu )
David Weiman, Barnard College ( dweiman@barnard.edu )
Susie Pak, St. John's University ( paks1@stjohns.edu )
RapporteurDavid Samuel Lerer (david.lerer@columbia.edu)
University Economic History Seminar Schedule
Fall 2022
Oct 6
Elizabeth Reynolds,
Washington UniversityThe Pangdatsang Trading Firm: Politics, Currency Exchange, and Trans-Tibet Business during WWII
Nov 3
Jane Knodell,
University of VermontTBA
Dec 1
Brian Marein,
University of TorontoTBA
Spring 2023
February 2 TBA TBA March 2
Alan Taylor,
Columbia SIPATBA
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.