MADRID SCHEDULE

Updated 7/31/98, 10:30 am EDT

EH.Net will update this web page version of the schedule as we receive information about sessions proceeding as scheduled or being cancelled by their organizers. A, B, C, and E sessions are listed in numerical order; dissertation presentations are listed alphabetically by presenter name at the end of this document.


A1. ON -- The economic consequences of empires (1492-1989).

A2 Population and the economy: from hunger to modern economic growth.

A3. Courts as economic institutions since the Middle Ages.

A4. ON -- The legacy of the Western European fiscal and monetary institutions for the New World: 17th to 19th century.

A5. PARTIAL: Co-organizer Sebastian Coll attending/Co-organizer John Komlos not attending -- The biological standard of living and economic development : nutrition, health and well being in historical perspective.


B1. CANCELLED -- Guilds, economy and society.

B2 CANCELLED -- Land, labour and tenure: the institutional arrangements of conflict and cooperation in comparative perspective.

B3 CANCELLED -- Markets for art, 1400-1800.

B4. Integration of commodity markets in history.

B5. Aristocracy, patrimonial management strategies and economic development, 1450-1800.

B6. ON -- Monetary history in global perspective, 1500-1808.

B7. Entrepreneurial networks and business culture.

B8. Insurance in industrial societies: economic role, agents and market from 18th century to today.

B9. ON -- Finance and the making of the modern capitalist world, 1750-1931.

B10. ON (morning session only) -- Historical benchmark comparisons of output and productivity.

B11. De-industrialisation in Europe, 19th-20th centuries.. Trends in income inequality during industrialization.

B13. The cooperative movement in historical perspective - its role, forms, and economic, social and cultural impact.

B14. Railway management and its organisational structure: its impact on and diffusion into the general economy.

B15. ON -- Global markets: the internationalization of the sea transport industries since 1850.

B16. Public debt, public finance, money and balance of payments in debtor countries, 1890-1932/1933.

B17. CANCELLED -- The microeconomic analysis of the household and the labour market, 1880-1939.


C1. Credit, loans and interest in ancient Near Eastern civilizations - social and economic implications. (two parts)

C2. ON -- Means of communication, spread of information and European and Mediterranean commerce, 10th-17th centuries.

C2. Ethno-national divides and economic coexistence: historical perspectives.

C3. L'economie des chapitres cathedraux et collegiaux en Europe du Moyen Age au debut des Temps Modernes (XIe-XVIe siecles).

C4. ON -- Patterns of economic and political integration in central and southeast-central Europe, 15th-17th centuries.

C5. Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial behaviour in the early modern period.

C6. The development of economic war in early modern times: some experiences.

C7. ON -- Inventions, innovations et espionnage: la diffusion du savoir technique dans l'Europe moderne.

C8. Accumulation and dissolution of large estates of the regular clergy in early modern Europe.

C9. The government of the economy in the Spanish Empire: statistical information, economic policies and taxation (1516-1700).

C10. ON -- Merchant organization and maritime trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815.

C11. Micro-history and the macro-models of the European economic-demographic system in pre-industrial times.

C12. La peche europeenne l'epoque pre-industrielle.

C13. Before factories. Creation and management of structures and organizational mechanisms in complex organizations of the pre-industrial era.

C14. CANCELLED -- Belated industrialization in Europe.

C15. CANCELLED -- Wage forms, entitlements and industrialisation in Europe, 18th-19th centuries.

C16. ON -- Literacy and development in rural societies.

C17. Markets and the development process in South Asia.

C19. Economic thought and economic policy in 19th century less developed Europe.

C18. The stem-family in Eurasian perspective, as domestic unit of production and reproduction, facing economic and social change.

C19. Economic thought and economic policy in 19th century less developed Europe. - 2nd part

C20. CANCELLED -- Potatoes and famine in mid-19th century Europe.

C21. Les ports et l'economie urbaine et regionale: hinterlands et investissements portuaires (1850-1910).

C22. CANCELLED -- The imperial transition: the impact of the Spanish-American war of 1898 on Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Philippines and Hawaii, 1898-1914.

C23. Les elites agraires et le developpement regional en Europe du Sud: analyses comparatives (XIXe-XXe siecles).

C24. Economie et communications en Europe et aux Etats-Unis aux XIXe et XXe siecles.

C25. Monnaies et capitaux en Afrique, XIXe-XXe siecles.

C26. Etude comparee des infrastructures et des services urbains aux XIXe et XXe siecles: technologie et financement; problemes concernant leur gestion et leur regulation.

C27. ON (ONE part of two) -- Latin America and the world economy in the 19th and 20th centuries: essays in quantitative economic history.

C28. Trajectoires technologiques - marches - institutions (pays industrialises XIXe-XXe siecles).

C30. ON -- Vines and wines: production and consumption since 1850.

C31. Labor markets, information and immigration from Southern Europe to the Americas (1870- 1930). (two parts)

C32. ON --1870-1990: product and income growth rates convergence and divergence within originally land-abundant Latin American countries and between them and West European countries.

C33. Games of chance: business and finance in modern China, 1870-1990. (two parts)

C34. ON -- Banks as firms: the internal organization and structure, 1850 to the present.

C35. Tax-systems in historical perspective: equity or growth?

C36. Sugar and alternative sweeteners in historical perspective.

C37. Historical perspectives on gender and labour migration.

C38. ON -- Economic crises and restructuring in small countries.

C39. La historia empresarial en sociedades de industrializacion tardia. Estudios y enfoques recientes.

C40. Governments and information technology policy.

C41. CANCELLED -- Stochastic models in historical analysis of business cycles and economic growth.

C42. ON -- Ethno-national divides and economic coexistence: historical perspectives. (2 parts)

C43. ON -- Environmental history: an emerging synthesis? (two parts)

C44. ON -- The economic history of World War II and its aftermath.

C45. Les missions de productivite et la diffusion de l'influence economique et technologique americaine apres la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

C46. The Middle-East and the Common Arab Economic Market (historical features).

C47. CANCELLED --The failure of Commonwealth economic cooperation, 1945-65?

C48. CANCELLED --Economic growth and institutional change in East Bloc countries, 1945-1989.

C49. Economic change and the national question in 20th century Europe.

C50. Consumption in the 29th century: economic, cultural and gender perspectives.

C51. Business history and institutional theory.

C52. Nomads on transcontinental trade routes (5th - 18th centuries).

C53. The long-term structure of public debt in Europe, 12th-20th centuries.

C54. Production et productivite agricoles dans le monde occidental (XIIe-XXe siecles).

C54. Production et productivite agricoles dans le monde occidental (XIIe-XXe siecles). - 2nd part

C55. Mobilite du capital humain et industrialisation regionale en Europe: entrepreneurs, techniciens, main-d'oeuvre specialisee (XVIe-XXe siecles).

C56. ON -- Asian pacific dynamism, 1550-2000.

C57. Criminality, disputes and economic change in Europe, 1600-1900. (two parts)

C58. Cotton as prime mover in global industrialization, 1600-1990.

C59. Les femmes et le credit dans les societes europeennes (XVIe-XIXe siecles). (two parts)

C60. CANCELLED -- World commodities and commercial networks in Asia, 1750-1950.

C61. CANCELLED -- Seascapes: economic and social exchanges within maritime regions.

C62. Irregular urban employment and the informal sector in historical perspective.

C63. Ciclo de nutrientes y balances hidricos de los sistemas agrarios.


E1. ON -- Internet resources for economic history research.

E2. Growth and institutions in postwar Europe.

E3. The economic history of Latin America: alternative perspectives, unfinished agendas and cross disciplinary exchanges.

E4. Land transmission in Europe and America (17th-20th centuries): social effects of an economic process. (two parts)

E5. ON -- Exchange rate regimes and economic policy in the 20th century.


D Sessions

L.D. Armstrong, Germany

A. J. Arnold, UK

J.M. Azevedo e Silva, Portugal

C. Bardini, Italy

B. Blonde, Belgium

P. Burn, Australia

J. Burnette, USA

M.A. Denzel, Germany

M. Eschelbach Gregson, USA

P. Harrison, USA

P.-C. Hautcoeur, France

G. A. Honda, USA

J. Jurado Sanchez, Spain

T. Leunig, UK

G. B. Magee, Australia

J. A. Miranda Encarnacion, Spain

F. Sequeira Dias, Portugal

M. Spoerer, Germany

W. Summerhill, USA

D. G. Surdam, USA

J. Suter, Switzerland