University Seminar in Economic History

University Economic History Seminar Schedule

Fall 2023

Oct 5	Andrew Bossie, NJ City University	WWII Contract Spending and Labor and Capital Income Slides
Nov 2	Roger Horowitz, University of Delaware	Schwartz Cheap Grocery: Jews and the Live Poultry Trade
Dec 7	Thomas Zuber, Columbia	Weathering Life’s problems: Living standards and income inequality in 20th century Burkina Faso
Spring 2024
Feb 1	José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Yale	Women and the Econometrics of Family Trees
Mar 7	Murat Iplikci, Columbia Center for Turkish Studies	Enlightening the Deeper Problems: Lack of US Private Investment in 1950s Turkey through the Lens of Clarence B. Randall’s Missions
Apr 4	Susie Pak, St. John's	TBA
May 2	Gavin Wright, Stanford	TBA

 

The seminars for Spring 2024 will be held in-person at the faculty house and on Zoom from 7:30 to 9:00 EST. We will meet for dinner in Faculty House at 6:30 before the seminar. (NOTE the change in time and format.) You must register (that is, RSVP) in advance with our rapporteur, Rohan Shah, 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