"The American Century"

• James Heckman (Chicago) and Petra Todd (Pennsylvania), "Sources of African American Economic Progress in the Labor Market in the Twentieth Century"
• William Collins (Vanderbilt) and Robert Margo (Vanderbilt), "Race and Home Ownership: A Century's View"

1B:  INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

• Daron Acemoglu (MIT), Simon Johnson (MIT), and James Robinson (UC Berkeley), "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation"
• Stephen Haber (Stanford), Armando Razo (Stanford), and Noel Maurer (ITAM), "Credible Commitments and Economic Growth Under Political Instability: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico."
• Cynthia Taft Morris (Smith College), "World Capitalist Growth Patterns: The Myth that Neoclassical Growth Models Apply Worldwide"

2A:  VALUES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

• William Easterly (World Bank), "The Middle Class Consensus and Economic Development"
• Richard Easterlin (USC), "America's Differential Impact on World Culture"
• David Dollar (World Bank) and Aart Kraay (World Bank), "Property Rights, Political Rights, and the Development of Poor Countries in the Post-colonial Period"

2B:  WARS AND THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENTS

• Philip Hoffman (Caltech) and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (UCLA), "Wars and the Evolution of Fiscal Regimes in Europe 1700-2000"
• Jani Eloranta (European University Institute), "Filling the Void? Implications of the Lack of American Military Leadership on the Military Spending of European Democracies, 1920-1938"
• Michael Edelstein (Queens College, CUNY), "The Size of U.S. Armed Forces During World War II"

• Jared Diamond (UCLA), "Why Did Human History Unfold Differently on Different Continents for the last 13,000 Years?"
• Jeffrey Sachs (Harvard), "Why are the Tropics Poor?:  Assessing the Roles of Politics, Economics, and Ecology"

4A:  ECONOMIC WARFARE

• Lance Davis (Caltech) and Stanley Engerman (Rochester), "Legal and Economic Aspects of Naval Blockade: The United States, Great Britain, and Germany in World War II"
• Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers) and Leonardo Caruana (CEU San Pablo University), "A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing: Economic Warfare in Spain and Portugal, 1939-1944"

4B:  THE GREAT DEPRESSION - MACRO

• Christina Romer (UC Berkeley) and Chang-Tai Hsieh (Princeton), "Was the Federal Reserve Fettered?  Devaluation Expectations in the 1932 Monetary Expansion"
• Pierre Siklos (Wilfrid Laurier University), "Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada"

5A:  PRODUCTIVITY

• Paul David (Oxford and Stanford) and Gavin Wright (Stanford), "Early Twentieth Century American Productivity Growth Dynamics"
• Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick) and Sayantan Ghosal (University of Warwick), "Explaining Comparative Productivity Levels in Services:  Technology and Organisation in Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990"

5B:  THE GREAT DEPRESSION - BANKS

• Joseph Mason (Drexel), Ali Anari (Texas A & M), and James Kolan (Texas A&M), "The Speed of Bank Liquidation and the Propagation of the U.S. Great Depression"
• Alan Taylor (UC Davis) and Gerardo della Paolera (Universidad Torcuato di Tella), "Internal versus External Convertibility and Developing Country Financial Crises: Lessons from the Argentine Bailouts of the 1930s"

• Mary Yeager (UCLA)
• David Ansen (Newsweek film critic)
• Mary Corey (UCLA)
• John Lithgow (actor)

7A:  TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS HISTORY

• Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA), Daniel Raff (Pennsylvania), and Peter Temin (MIT), "The Evolving Structure of Coordination: Towards A New Synthesis of American Business History"
• Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College), "Copyrights, the Infringement of Intellectual Property, and American Economic Development, 1790-1910"
• Steven Usselman (Georgia Tech) "Government and the American Computer Industry: Public Policies, Private Platforms"

7B:  SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

• Sukkoo Kim (Washington), "The Rise and Decline of Density in Economic Activities"
• Paul Rhode (North Carolina), "America's Century and the Rise of California as a Center of Economic Activity"
• Price Fishback, William C. Horrace, Shawn Kantor, and Tracy L. Regan (Arizona), "The Impact of the New Deal on Geographic Mobility"

8A:  INDUSTRY STUDIES AND STRUCTURES

• Emily Mechner (Bates College), "The Closing of the Frontier in Barbados: Economies of Scale and the Distributional Impact of the Sugar Revolution"
• Sally Clarke (Texas), "Settling Auto Disputes in Court:  Efforts to Define Relationships Among Car Buyers, Dealers and Manufacturers, 1905-1916"
• Karen Clay (Carnegie Mellon) and Werner Troesken (Pittsburgh), "The Puzzling Demise of the Whiskey Trust"

8B:  FOREIGN TRADE AND POLICY DURING THE AMERICAN CENTURY

• Hideaki Miyajima (Waseda University), "Transformation of the Japanese Economic System: A Reappraisal of the Occupation"
• Jennifer Frankl (Williams College), "Reducing Transaction Risk in Trade Between Japan and the United States: The Role of General Trading Companies, 1915-1941"
• Alan Dye (Barnard) and Richard Sicotte (University of Calgary), "Governing Foreign Trade: The Effects of Sugar Legislation on US-Cuban Relations"

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Document prepared by
Elizabeth Cascio
Last updated 7/24/00