University Seminar in Economic History
Co-chairs 2024-2025:
Alan Dye, Barnard College (adye@barnard.edu)
David Weiman, Barnard College (dweiman@barnard.edu)
Susie Pak, St. John's University (paks1@stjohns.edu)
RapporteurRohan Shah (rns2143@columbia.edu)
University Economic History Seminar Schedule
Fall 2024
Oct 10
Jason Hecht, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Nov 7
Martin Rotemberg, NYU
Gaining Steam: Incumbent Lock-in and Entrant Leapfrogging Dec 5
Dylan Gottlieb, Bentley University
Pipeline: Financialization and Wall Street’s 1980s Recruiting Boom
Spring 2025
Feb 6 Whitney Alycia McIntosh, Columbia University "F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money" Mar 6 Youssef Cassis, European University Institute, Florence ‘Bankers’ Experience and Memory of Financial Crises, 1980s-2020s’ Apr 3 Gergely Baics, Barnard College & Dan Miller, Columbia University
TBA May 1 Rui Esteves, Geneva Graduate Institute Dormant Securities”: Imperial Guarantees for Colonial Loans, 1842-1934 (joint with Coşkun Tunçer, UCL)
The seminars for the 2024-25 academic year will be held at the Columbia Faculty House and hybrid on Zoom from 7:30 to 9:00 EST. We meet for dinner in the Faculty House at 6:30 before the seminar. Please email our rapporteur, Whitney McIntosh, wam2134@columbia.edu , to RSVP to attend the dinner or to register in advance and obtain 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.