Social Science History conference 2012: Economics network Call for Papers

The Economics Network of the Social Science History Association calls for papers for the 2012 Social Science History Association conference. Please forward this message to anyone you know who may be interested.

Our apologies for the inevitable multiple receipt of this message for many of you. You are included on this mailing because within the last several years you participated in a Social Science History Association panel sponsored by the Economics Network.

The Social Science History Association conference for 2012 will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from November 1-4. The conference theme is "Histories of Capitalism." 

SSHA draws submissions of papers and panels through networks organized by topic or field. The Economics network representatives are
Mark Geiger  
Sumner La Croix
Peter Meyer OR
Evan Roberts:

We invite submissions of papers or (preferably) full panels by March 1, 2012. We are also interested to hear from specialists who are willing to volunteer to be chairs or discussants, and on what topics. For more information including the conference-wide call for papers, and the other networks please see the SSHA website at http://www.ssha.org/annual-conference.

The economics network meeting at the November 2011 meetings generated numerous ideas for panel sessions, many of which are related to the conference theme of "Histories of Capitalism," or the meeting location in Vancouver. Other submissions related to social science history that can be incorporated into interdisciplinary panels are welcome. Please contact the network chairs with any questions.

Submissions of either individual papers or whole sessions are welcome. This year all panels of research papers must have four papers when submitted, or the panel will not be accepted. (In the past panels of three papers have been allowed.) You will need to provide an abstract, title and contact information, and designate a network (or networks) where your paper is likely to fit. You are free to email us with questions, ideas, etc. but the actual submission is all self-serve.

Please submit paper and session proposals at http://conference.ssha.org. 

Topic areas identified at our 2011 network meeting include those listed below. Where an email is listed, please contact that person directly to discuss paper and panel proposals. Other enquiries should be sent to any of the network representatives listed above.

* Histories of capitalism, approaches from economics and sociology
* Economic research with prison records (Joint with Criminal Justice)
* Centennial of the election of Woodrow Wilson -- consideration of the economic history of the Wilson years
* Varieties of capitalism, including Chinese capitalism, capitalism on the Pacific Rim, Asian capitalism, and diaspora capitalism
* The decline of the Japanese model
* The new business history
* Inequality and capitalism
* Centennial of the Federal Reserve Act
* Family indebtedness
* Indigenous population and well being
* Patterns of Household and Family Labor Supply

Matt Nelson notes about his paper for the session above that "My paper is more specifically on the relationships of household, hired and "neighbor" labor on Minnesota farms in the mid nineteenth century.  My argument is that while not the main labor force (like family or hired labor), neighbor labor  (I broadly defined this as labor between neighbors where payment was in lending one's labor or capital rather than paying with money or goods) was not solely a pre-capitalist phenomenon of farms but was to some effect entrenched in capitalist agricultural processes."

Potential book sessions include
Douglas Allen, The Institutional Revolution (http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11040582.html)
Avner Offer, Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies (OUP, March)
Robert Van Horn, Philip Mirowski, Thomas A. Stapleford, Building Chicago Economics (Cambridge, Oct. 2011)
Francesco Boldizzoni, The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9476.html)
Daniel Berkowitz & Karen B. Clay, The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9626.html) 
Michael Zakim and Kornblith (eds), Capitalism Takes Command.