1999 Economic History Association Meetings Program

October 8-10, 1999

Omni Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland

1A. Achievements of Social and Ethnic Groups

Peter C. Mancall, Joshua L.Rosenbloom, and Thomas Weiss, "The Economic Activity of Native Americans: An Historical Analysis"
Susan Wolcott, "A Reconsideration of the Role of Caste in India's Slow Industrial Development"
Masao Suzuki, "Selective Immigration and Ethnic Economic Achievement: Japanese Americans before World War II"

1B. Health Shocks

Robert A. McGuire and Phil Coelho, "Brave New Worlds: The Consequences of the Voyages of Discovery"
Idamaria Fusco, "Governing with epidemic: the viceroy, Count of Castrillo, and the plague of 1656 in the Kingdom of Naples"
Garland L. Brinkley, "The Impact of Improving Health upon Economic Growth: An Economic Analysis Of the Southern Hookworm Eradication Campaign: 1910-1920."

2A. Property Rights in Land, Labor and Marriage

Kris Inwood, "Property Ownership by Married Women in Victorian Ontario"
Maristella Botticini, "Love and Demographic Shocks: The Black Death, Social Norms, and the Florentine Marriage Market, 1260-1430"
Scott A. Carson, "Redemption Servitude in America's Great Basin: Repayment and Enforcement Mechanisms"

2B. Political Economy of Government Activities

Joe Reid, "The Evolution of Government Employment"
Jason Taylor and Fred Bateman, "The Political Economy of the Second World War: Did the New Deal Really End in 1939?"
Kerry Pannell, "Socialist Competition and Unbalanced Development: Origins of the Soviet Industrial System"

2C. Macro Shocks

Michael D. Bordo, Michael J. Dueker, and David C. Wheelock, "Inflation Shocks and Financial Distress: An Historical Analysis"
Concepción García-Iglesias, "The Transmission of International Business Cycle Shocks: Evidence from the European Periphery, 1861-1913"
Cheng-chung Lai, "Proposing Gold-Exchange Standards for China, 1903-1930"

3A. Shocks to Industry and Commerce

Zephyr Frank, "The Amazon Rubber Boom: Price Shocks and Production in Mato Grosso, 1900-1930"
David Michael Higgins and Sue Bowden, "Strategic reaction to shocks: the British wool and cotton textile industries during the interwar years"
Clyde A. Haulman, "The Panic of 1819 and Its Impact on Virginia Merchants"

3B. Sources of Economic Growth

David J. Weiland, "The Transition from Demand-led to Supply-led Manufacturing Growth: The Role of the Spanish Empire, 1564-1750"
Richard DePolt, "Natural Resource Shocks, Structural Change, and U.S. Economic Growth, 1859-1899"
Peter L. Rousseau and Richard Sylla, "Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth"

Plenary Session 4 -- Fire and Ice: Historical Sciences and Economic History

Eldridge Moores, Why "Civilization Exists by Geologic Consent--Subject to Change without Notice" (Will Durant)
Lonnie Thompson, "Ice and History: Glacial Records of Climate Change"

Dissertation Session -- North American Topics

Ian Keay, "Assessing the Performance of Canada's Manufacturers: Firm Level Evidence from 1902-1990"
David Koistinen, "Dealing with Deindustrialization: Economics, Politics, and Policy During the Decline of the New England Textile Industry, 1920-1960"
Melissa Anne Thomasson, "From sickness to Health: The Twentieth-Century Development of the Demand for Health Insurance"

Dissertation Session -- Non-North American Topics

Leigh Shaw-Taylor, "Proletarianisation, Parliamentary Enclosure and the Household Economy of the Laboring Poor 1750-1850"
Carol Hua Shiue, "Grain Trade and Storage in Late Imperial China"
Chiaki Moriguchi, "The Evolution of Employment Systems in the US and Japan, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis"

5A. Labor Market Dynamics

Andrew Seltzer, "Was the 1931 Wage Cut Successful? Evidence from the Personnel Records of the Union Bank of Australia"
Warren C. Whatley and Stan Sedo, "The Origins of Modern U. S. Labor Markets: New Evidence from Company Personnel Records"
Chiaki Moriguchi, "The Evolution of Employment Relations in the U.S. and Japan: The Great Depression as a Point of Bifurcation"

5B. Poverty and Inequality

W. G. Huff, "Entitlements, Colonialism and Destitution in the 1930s Singapore Great Depression"
Linda Barrington, "Absolutely Relative or Relatively Absolute: The Income Elasticity of Orshansky-Method Poverty Lines, 1919-1959"
Gordon Fisher, "How Many Americans were Really in Poverty in 1947?"

6A. Natural Disasters and Economic Responses

Dalit Baranoff, "Great Fires, Bankruptcies, and the American Fire Insurance Industry, 1835-1904"
Kerry Odell, "Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Financial Networks and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake"
Ronnie J. Phillips, "Real and Financial Shocks to the Payments System: Earthquakes, Panics, and the San Francisco Clearinghouse"

6B. Agricultural History

Debin Ma, "Challenge and Response: Chinese and Japanese Sericulture 1850-1930"
Jonathan J. Liebowitz, "French Sharecroppers, Tenants, and Their Landlords Face the Late Nineteenth Century Crisis: What Can Narrative Tell?"
Liam Brunt, "Climate and Technology Shocks in English Agriculture, 1700-1870."