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Call for Papers WEHC Stellenbosch 2012, session ‘‘Marriage patterns, agency in households, and economic growth”

Posted Thu, 2012-02-02 08:14 by R_v_Weeren
Name: 
Jaco Zuijderduijn
Email: 
c.j.zuijderduijn@uu.nl

When addressing the roots of development, many scholars look at developments at the level of the household. This is not only true for development economists, but also for economic historians, who have claimed that this was where some of the driving forces behind change materialized. Over the past three decades the significance of decisions made at the household level has gradually also been acknowledged by theoretical economists (e.g. Gary Becker), who stress the fundamental importance of the switch from ‘quantity to quality’ of offspring as a cornerstone of modern economic growth. Moreover, many scholars have claimed that coercion, conflict and cooperation relationships based on gender differences at the household operate at all levels of the economy. The crucial role of the household is further acknowledged by the increasing focus of economic historians on changes at the micro-level, notably since Hajnal’s work on the European Marriage Pattern and De Vries’ hypotheses about the crucial role of households in the ‘industrious revolution’.

These issues are closely linked to the question of agency: how were households created and what did decision-making processes in households look like? How did changes in women’s opportunities to progress reflect on their decision-making at home? How have the links between economic development and progress in women’s status operated in different societies? More in particular, we are interested in gender-related issues such as female empowerment with respect to the interplay between the household and the economy. Since the role of women – but also children and other family members – in households is often determined by cultural factors, these issues should be researched in a comparative way.

The session ‘‘Marriage patterns, agency in households, and economic growth” will bring specialists together from all over the world to look at these and related themes in a global comparative perspective.

Invitation to Ph.D. Course Ideologies, Ideas, and Values during the Industrial Revolution 20-25 May 2010, Gothenburg

Posted Wed, 2012-02-01 03:02 by Anna-Helena Wiechel
Name: 
Anna-Helena Wiechel
Email: 
anna-helena.wiechel@econhist.gu.se

Why was Europe the first region to develop economically and why did Britain lead among the European nations? Recent years have seen a number of important contributions to the field of economic history trying to deal with the issue from new perspectives, using new empirical evidence. The course will study some of scholarly contributions.

The course will be taught by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Professor, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg.

The department of Economic History at Gothenburg University, Sweden, invites PhD student in economic history, economics and/or history, or similar disciplines within social science and the humanities to take part in this one week course in Gothenburg.

Participants are expected to write short reviews of the books on the reading list, to be discussed in class in the morning of each day of the course. Participants will also present a paper on their own research in afternoon seminars, and get feedback from other participants of the course and from Professor McCloskey.

Applications for participation in the course should be sent latest 1 March 2012 by mail to Anna-Helena Wiechel, Dept. of economic history, University of Gothenburg: anna-helena.wiechel@econhist.gu.se.

Applicants should give a short description of the research fi eld of their doctoral thesis. Since the number of participants will be limited, a selection may be necessary. The result from such selection will be sent to the applicants in mid-March.

For further questions regarding the course, please contact course organizers Anna-Helena Wiechel or Carolina Lindqvist:
anna-helena.wiechel@econhist.gu.se, carolina.lindqvist@econhist.gu.se

Reading list
• Deirdre N.

Philanthropy in America: A History

Posted Tue, 2012-01-31 16:23 by whaples
Author: 
Zunz, Olivier
Reviewer: 
Frey, Donald E.

Published by EH.Net (January 2012)

Olivier Zunz, Philanthropy in America: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.  x + 381 pp. $30 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0 691-12836-8.
    
Reviewed for EH.Net by Donald E. Frey, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University (retired).

Olivier Zunz starts his history in the late 1800s, focusing on big foundations along with the “mass philanthropy” of the middle class. A recurring theme is the enduring difficulty in defining the boundaries between government and philanthropy. 

The story that Zunz chooses to tell, though not comprehensive, is fascinating; and he tells it well. Chapter 1 recounts emerging dissatisfaction with traditional “charity” in the late 1800s. But the real story is the forming of the first great foundations, which grandly and vaguely aimed for “the improvement of mankind” (p. 8). This challenged legal doctrine that had defined charitable purposes very narrowly. Early foundations chose two major emphases: advancing science, which implied reshaping higher education; and improving the status of African-Americans in the U.S. South.
  
The second chapter moves to popular “mass philanthropy,” which was born in fighting diseases, such as TB (as early as 1908). World War I stimulated mass giving as patriotism provided a new motive. About this time, forerunners of the United Way emerged to consolidate charitable appeals and apply business-like, calculating methods to fundraising.
    
Chapter 3 introduces the earliest difficulties of differentiating the roles of government and the roles of philanthropy. The issue was related to defining tax incentives for charitable giving. The chapter is too rich in detail to recount here.

Geographic Area: 
North America
Subject: 
Education and Human Resource Development
Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time period: 
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Final call for papers Clio sessions at WEAI 2012

Posted Tue, 2012-01-31 15:04 by Anonymous
Name: 
Mike Haupert
Email: 
mhaupert@uwlax.edu

Final Call for Papers
2012 WEAI Meetings
June 29 – July 3, 2012

The Cliometric Society will sponsor two sessions at the Western Economic Association International annual conference in San Francisco, CA, June 29 – July 3, 2012. The program committee includes Mike Haupert (UW-La Crosse), Andrew Jalil (Reed College), and Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine). Authors interested in presenting a paper should send a one-page proposal including an abstract or description of the paper, and a page including all contact information, to Mike Haupert at haupert.mich@uwlax.edu by February 3, 2012. Please note on the subject line that you are sending a proposal for the WEAI meetings, and include the proposal as an attachment.

Hard copies may be faxed to:

Michael Haupert
WEAI Proposals
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
(608) 785-8549

At least one author must be a member of the Cliometric Society.

Proposals due: February 3, 2012
Authors notified of acceptance of paper: February 17, 2012
WEAI Meetings in San Francisco: June 29 - July 3, 2012

Please email any questions to: haupert.mich@uwlax.edu

Michael J. Haupert
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
La Crosse, WI 54601

Phone: (608) 785-6863
Fax: (608) 785-8549

CfP: 7th Sound Economic History Workshop, Tampere, Finland, May 19-20, 2012

Posted Mon, 2012-01-30 02:18 by Anonymous
Name: 
Paul Sharp
Email: 
pauls@sam.sdu.dk

7th Sound Economic History Workshop
May 19-20, 2012
The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Historical Research “History of Society”
& The Finnish Doctoral Programme of History,
University of Tampere, Finland

Keynote Speaker: Bernard Harris, University of Southampton

Call for papers
The main aim of the workshop is to gather new researchers in a friendly and collegial environment where they can present their research and receive constructive criticism from their peers and leading economic historians. Another aim of the workshop is to demonstrate the breadth of Economic History as an academic discipline, so there is no theme to the workshop, and submissions are encouraged from any sub-field of economic and social history. The workshop is open for presentations by PhD students and post-docs. Non-presenters are also encouraged to participate, so please register even if you do not wish to present a paper. Nordic scholars or scholars based in the Nordic countries will be given preference. Please note that there will be a registration fee of €70.

* Deadline for submission of abstract (one page): March 19
* Notification of acceptance: April 6
* Registration, payment of registration fee and full paper due by: April 29

For more information: www.keynes.dk/sehw
Submissions and registrations to Sakari Saaritsa: sakari.saaritsa@helsinki.fi

Local organizer: Sakari Saaritsa

Yale Conference on "Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse?" February 24-25--All are invited, but please register

Posted Sun, 2012-01-29 12:46 by Anonymous
Name: 
Naomi Lamoreaux
Email: 
naomi.lamoreaux@yale.edu

Dear friends,

We would like to remind you of the conference “Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse?” that will be held at Yale University on February 24-25, 2012. The conference is free and open to the public, but we would ask you to register your attendance at the conference website http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter/EHindex.htm. The conference schedule is below. Papers will be posted on the website as they come in. The website also has links to a campus map and information about travel to New Haven.

* * * All Are Invited * * *

“RESOURCES: ENDOWMENT OR CURSE, BETTER OR WORSE?”

FEBRUARY 24-25, 2012

Luce Auditorium
Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Yale University

Co-Sponsored by the Yale Program in Economic History and Yale Environmental History

The conference is free and open to the public. Please register at:
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter/EHindex.htm

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

How do the characteristics and availability of natural resources shape political institutions? How have states mobilized resources to bolster their legitimacy and extend their influence? How have economic and environmental historians, political scientists, and others approached the concept of resources in the past and what are some directions for future work?

This two-day conference at Yale University will engage an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine these questions and others at the intersection of environmental change, economics, and political development.

Reminder: Call formpapers for session 176 WEHC Work and the Life Course in Comparative Perspective

Posted Thu, 2012-01-26 08:13 by ehmerj
Name: 
Josef Ehmer
Email: 
josef.ehmer@univie.ac.at

Call for papers for the session 176
Work and the Life Course in Comparative Perspective
for the XVIth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, 9-13 July, 2012
This session is organized by the International Research Centre "Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History" (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) in collaboration with the Department for Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna, Austria.
The purpose of the session will be the analysis of major changes in the relations between work and the life course in the transitions from pre-industrial to industrial and from industrial to post-industrial economies and societies. In history, age has been one of the major factors (usually in combination with class and gender) which determine the position of individuals in the world of work, and which regulate their allocation to and their preferences for various types of work, such as gainful employment, housework and care. In many pre-and early industrial modes of production, particularly in Europe, the main feature of the life course was the transition from dependent work and wage labor at a young age to the position of self-employed or employer at a later age. The spread of industrial capitalism and the trend towards life-long wage labor created new patterns such as the U-shaped work careers of women due to the male-breadwinner/female-housekeeper model from the late 19th to the late 20th century. In advanced capitalism and particularly where it is associated with the welfare state, the so-called “institutionalization of the life course” (education-work-retirement) created and prolonged work-free life cycle stages in youth and old age and an ever stronger concentration of labor force participation in the middle years. Recent discussions in economics and sociology, however, raise the question of “de-institutionalization” of the life course as part of the transition to a post-modern economy.

position associate senoir lecturer in economic history, university of gothenburg, new corrected version

Posted Wed, 2012-01-25 09:02 by Anonymous
Name: 
Birgit Karlsson
Email: 
birgit.karlsson@econhist.gu.se

Associate senior lecturer in Economic History
Ref no: PERM 2011/319 at the department of Economic History

The School of Business, Economics and Law is publishing a position for an associate senior lecturer in economic history, based at the Department of Economic History.

Duties:
This position will involve 50% research and 50% teaching, primarily in economic history. The duties include independently developing research within a field that attaches to the research taking place at the Department (see www.handels-gu.se/econhist/), actively seeking for research grants from external funding agencies, as well as teaching and supervision of students at the basic and advanced levels. The holder of the position must have his/her principal work located in the Department.

Eligibility:
Anyone who has completed a doctorate in economic history or similar may be employed as an associate senior lecturer in economic history. Applicants should have completed their doctorate no more than six years before the end of the application period. Applicants who have completed their doctorate sooner will be considered if there are special reasons for doing so (1.2.1. Appointments procedure at GU E 5 4898/10). The holder of the position must be able to teach in Swedish/Scandinavian as well as in English.

Basis for assessment:
Scientific proficiency will be the most important criterion in assessing the applicant's qualifications. Publication in journals and by publishers with an international peer-review system is highly meriting, and so is experience from international cooperation and participation in research networks.

Pedagogical proficiency will, after scientific proficiency, be regarded as the second most important assessment criterion. When assessing the pedagogical proficiency special weight should be given to the ability to implement, lead and plan education.

Call for papers: Clio sessions at WEAI 2012

Posted Tue, 2012-01-24 15:40 by Anonymous
Name: 
Mike Haupert
Email: 
mhaupert@uwlax.edu

Call for Papers
2012 WEAI Meetings
June 29 – July 3, 2012

The Cliometric Society will sponsor two sessions at the Western Economic Association International annual conference in San Francisco, CA, June 29 – July 3, 2012. The program committee includes Mike Haupert (UW-La Crosse), Andrew Jalil (Reed College), and Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine). Authors interested in presenting a paper should send a one-page proposal including an abstract or description of the paper, and a page including all contact information, to Mike Haupert at haupert.mich@uwlax.edu by February 3, 2012. Please note on the subject line that you are sending a proposal for the WEAI meetings, and include the proposal as an attachment.

Hard copies may be faxed to:

Michael Haupert
WEAI Proposals
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
(608) 785-8549

At least one author must be a member of the Cliometric Society.

Proposals due: February 3, 2012
Authors notified of acceptance of paper: February 17, 2012
WEAI Meetings in San Francisco: June 29 - July 3, 2012

Please email any questions to: haupert.mich@uwlax.edu

Michael J. Haupert
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
La Crosse, WI 54601

Phone: (608) 785-6863
Fax: (608) 785-8549

CSFI / City of London Academic Expert Directory

Posted Tue, 2012-01-24 12:02 by Anonymous
Name: 
Justin Brummer
Email: 
justinbrummer@hotmail.com

The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation is a London-based not-for-profit think-tank that looks at threats and opportunities in the financial services sector. It is sometimes described as the City’s think-tank.
Thanks to the generosity of the City of London Corporation, it has just completed an on-line Directory of academic (and other) expertise. The intention is that this will be an easy-to-use data base of what UK academia has to offer to the financial services sector. It is not limited to (say) financial engineers or macroeconomists; the idea is to bring together in one place all the disciplines and expertise that the City (in its many forms – banks, IT providers, professional services firms etc) needs.

The Directory is easy-to-use and completely free – free to those who list their services and
free to those who want to find a particular source of expertise. It was launched at the City Guildhall in early January by Lionel Barber (editor of the FT) and Stuart Fraser (chairman of the City’s policy committee) and it has already generated a great deal of enthusiasm.

Now, we have to get it populated – in particular, with the names/details of UK academics from a range of disciplines (economists, sociologists, finance/business specialists, historians, IR/PoliSci experts etc etc). We are looking for at least a thousand individual entries – which means we need your help, both to put up your own details and to pass the word along to friends and colleagues. I have included a link to a flyer which explains how the site works and what you need to do. It is (I hope) self-explanatory; but, if you have any problems, please let us know – preferably by emailing Lisa Moyle at lisa@csfi.org.uk. Your assistance is much appreciated.
Academic Expert Directory
Many thanks,

Andrew Hilton
Director
CSFI

CFP WEHC Stellenbosch: The Art of Trading Art. Negotiating the Economic Value of European Art in Asia and the Americas (1600-1900)

Posted Tue, 2012-01-24 04:26 by Anonymous
Name: 
Dries Lyna
Email: 
dries.lyna@ua.ac.be

Call For Papers for the WEHC in Stellenbosch, July 9-13, 2012

The Art of Trading Art.
Negotiating the Economic Value of European Art
in Asia and the Americas (1600-1900)

* Session organisers:
Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato (Mejiro University Tokyo, Japan), Hans Van Miegroet (Duke University, USA) and Dries Lyna (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

What is value in the art world, are there any formal criterions and who defines the concept? Questions like these are not only relevant for our contemporary society, as our current perception of value in the arts is the unwitting result of a century-long process of consideration, deliberation and canonization. Research on the European art market of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries is increasingly adopting a distinct postmodern approach to the value of paintings, tapestries and other works of art, as the neoclassical framework that governed earlier literature on price formation in the historical art markets sometimes proved too rigid. More and more economic and art historians are analyzing value within specific historical settings, and increasingly demystify the market value of art as a complex social, cultural and material construction.

Call for papers: Socioeconomic stratification and fertility

Posted Mon, 2012-01-23 04:15 by Anonymous
Name: 
Martin Dribe
Email: 
Martin.Dribe@ekh.lu.se

Call for Papers
International Seminar on Socio-economic Stratification and Fertility before, during and after the Demographic Transition
Alghero (Sardinia), Italy, 27-29 September 2012
Organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel for Historical Demography, in collaboration with University of Sassari.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 March 2012.
The relationship between socio-economic stratification (e.g. social class, education, income) and demographic outcomes has been an important research field in demography for a long time. In contemporary societies the role of education and income in relation to fertility has received great attention. Lack of appropriate data has, however, hampered a rigorous assessment of the impact of socio-economic status on fertility in longer-term perspective. The aim of this seminar is to bring together researchers from various disciplines interested in the relationship and interaction between socio-economic stratification and fertility. More specifically, the objective is to bring forward new empirical evidence on the impact of socio-economic status on various fertility outcomes before, during and after the demographic transition in a range of different countries, and using micro-level data.
A full announcement for this seminar is available at: http://www.iussp.org/Activities/hisdem/call12.php
Submissions
Researchers interested in presenting their work at the seminar are invited to submit a proposal on the IUSSP website by 15 March 2012. Submissions must include a short 200-word abstract and an extended abstract (2 to 4 pages, including tables) or a full paper.
Papers submitted should be unpublished. The Panel plans to publish a set of the papers presented at the seminar as a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal or in an edited volume.

Deadline for Proposals is Jan 27, 2012: Call for Papers: EHA Annual Meeting (September 21-23, 2012, Vancouver, Canada)

Posted Sat, 2012-01-21 20:23 by Anonymous
Name: 
Jari Eloranta
Email: 
elorantaj@appstate.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Revisiting the Transportation Revolution

Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Vancouver, British Columbia
September 21-23, 2012

Generations of economic historians have written extensively about the economic impact of the transportation improvements. Nevertheless, new tools, new data, and new techniques derived from geographic information systems, economic geography, and the like continue to offer better measures of the impact of the improvements in roads, ships, railroads, and planes (and the infrastructure which support them). They also provide new insights into the short and long term effects of these changes and how they have shaped our world by diminishing the importance of space and place. Once upon a time, distance in the form of time and money protected producers and isolated communities and cultures. Improved communications and transportation have eroded these—a process which continues to this day as these technologies evolve.

The Program Committee (Robert Margo, Boston University (Chair); Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University; Leah Boustan, UCLA; and Eugene White, Rutgers University) welcomes submissions on all subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that specifically fit the above theme. All papers should be submitted individually. Authors may suggest that three particular papers would fit well together in a session but such suggestions are in no way binding upon the Committee.

Papers should in all cases be works in progress rather than accepted or published work and authors should let the program committee know, at the time of application, if the paper they are proposing has already been submitted for publication. Individuals who presented or co-authored a paper at the 2011 meeting are generally not eligible for inclusion in the 2012 program.

Final deadline Jan 31, 2012: Call for Papers: Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics

Posted Sat, 2012-01-21 20:19 by Anonymous
Name: 
Jari Eloranta
Email: 
elorantaj@appstate.edu

FINAL DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS JANUARY 31:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Appalachian Spring: Seventh Annual Conference in World History and Economics

This conference is an interdisciplinary meeting aimed at bringing together
scholars from Appalachian State University (Boone, NC) with scholars from
other universities in North Carolina, the surrounding states, and abroad. We
have already hosted six of these meetings in the past, which have been very
successful. Our past keynote speakers have included Kenneth Pomeranz, Jeremy
Black, Peter Lindert, and Price Fishback. This year’s speaker will be Dr.
John Wallis, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland; a
world-renowned scholar of government finance and institutional change. We
will also feature 5-6 panels with scholarly papers, divided among different
topical themes, including an undergraduate and a graduate panel. This year’s
theme will be Violence and Social Orders. The paper or panel proposals do
not have to be directly tied to the conference theme, although papers
fitting with theme will be given special consideration.

The conference will take place on April 14, 2012, on the Appalachian State
University campus (Boone) in the beautiful North Carolina mountains. Those
interested in participating should let the organizers know by January 31,
2012. A one-page abstract describing the scholar’s proposal should be
submitted to the organizers by that date. A full paper will be expected by
the organizers by March 1, 2012. There is only a modest registration fee
(regular: $50; (graduate) students: $20; ASU faculty and students: free).
The organizers cannot provide funding for accommodations or travel expenses.
We offer meals to the participants during the meeting at reduced cost in
addition to the registration fee.

Organizers (contacts for paper proposals and practical matters):
• Jari Eloranta, Associate Professor (Appalachian State University,

Request Participation or Submit Paper to 2012 Cliometrics Conference: Closes 11 pm EST on 19 January 2012

Posted Wed, 2012-01-18 13:06 by Anonymous
Name: 
Sumner La Croix
Email: 
lacroix@hawaii.edu

2012 Annual Cliometrics Conference

The annual Cliometrics Conference in 2012 will be held on the weekend of Friday, May 18 through Sunday, May 20 at Westward Look, Tucson, Arizona and hosted by the University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation.

The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new and innovative research in economic history. Typically, twelve papers are selected for presentation and discussion. These are sent out to all conference participants in advance. Each paper is a single session, in which authors have five minutes to make an opening statement and the rest of the hour session is devoted to discussion among all conference participants. All participants are required to read all papers and to attend the entire conference. At least one author must be a member of the Cliometrics Society. For membership information contact Michael Haupert at haupert.mich@uwlax.edu.

The deadline to submit a paper proposal or a request to attend the conference is Wednesday, 18 January 2012. Proposals and requests to attend the conference will be accepted beginning Friday, 18 November 2011. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary proposals and participants. Those wishing to present a paper should provide an abstract and a 3-5 page summary of the proposed paper. In choosing papers and participants, the host committee will assign priority to those who have not attended recently or who have never attended. Graduate students wishing to attend or submit a paper proposal should also obtain a letter of recommendation from their dissertation advisor. Those wishing to present papers or JUST TO ATTEND the conference should provide their addresses, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. Those whose papers are selected for presentation will be notified by 14 February 2012 and are expected to provide a completed draft of the paper in the proper format for the conference volume no later than 13 March 2012.

CFP: British Academy of Management Conference 2012, Management and Business History Track

Posted Wed, 2012-01-18 11:27 by Anonymous
Name: 
Kevin D. Tennent
Email: 
kevin.tennent@york.ac.uk

Call for papers

British Academy of Management Conference
Theme: 'Management Research Revisited: Prospects for Theory and Practice'
Cardiff University 2012
Management and Business History Track

In 2012 our track aims to build on the successful experience of BAM 2011. In 2012 the conference theme gives us as historians an excellent opportunity to emphasise the benefits of longitudinal work to management scholars more generally. The theorists of the past were bounded by the historical context of the period that they found themselves in, and we must understand that context in order to be able to make comparisons with the present in terms of applicability. As historians we are in an excellent position to demonstrate the usefulness of knowledge of that context. History also provides some opportunity for reflective practice: approaches and strategies which appeared to work during the crises of the 1930s or 1970s may not work today and vice versa. As a track we can make an important contribution to the discussion as a whole at BAM 2012, while further encouraging historians to think more clearly about how theory underpins their work and how it can potentially inform practice.

Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism after 1950

Posted Tue, 2012-01-17 09:46 by whaples
Author: 
Fioretos, Orfeo
Reviewer: 
Coates, David

Published by EH.Net (January 2012)

Orfeo Fioretos, Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism after 1950. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. xix + 245 pp. $50 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-8014-4969-7.

Reviewed for EH.Net by David Coates, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University.

There is now a long established interest in the character and economic fortunes of different models of capitalism. Important debates continue about their internal dynamics of change. Do modern economies flourish to the degree to which we find “institutional complementaries” within them, as in the original “varieties of capitalism” (VOC) formulation by Hall and Soskice; or do we need to bring something “back in” to supplement or replace the incipient “institutional determinism” of that approach? Do we need to make the “constructivist” turn favored by Vivien Schmidt and others, or do we need to make the “class” turn favored by analysts influenced by an on-going stream of Marxist scholarship? If the argument of this impressively researched and coherently argued work by Orfeo Fioretos holds, the intellectual turn we need to take is towards behavioral economics and the concerns of international political economy, by recognizing the role multilateral strategies play (and have played in the immediate past) in shaping the trajectory of particular European capitalisms and the incentive structures operating on their key firms. We need to bring “the state” back in to our analyses, but to do so in a new and important way.

Geographic Area: 
Europe
Subject: 
Economic Planning and Policy
Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Markets and Institutions
Time period: 
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Final three days to apply for 2012 Cliometrics Conference!!

Posted Mon, 2012-01-16 19:01 by Anonymous
Name: 
Sumner La Croix
Email: 
lacroix@hawaii.edu

2012 Annual Cliometrics Conference

The annual Cliometrics Conference in 2012 will be held on the weekend of Friday, May 18 through Sunday, May 20 at Westward Look, Tucson, Arizona and hosted by the University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation.

The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new and innovative research in economic history. Typically, twelve papers are selected for presentation and discussion. These are sent out to all conference participants in advance. Each paper is a single session, in which authors have five minutes to make an opening statement and the rest of the hour session is devoted to discussion among all conference participants. All participants are required to read all papers and to attend the entire conference. At least one author must be a member of the Cliometrics Society. For membership information contact Michael Haupert at haupert.mich@uwlax.edu.

The deadline to submit a paper proposal or a request to attend the conference is Wednesday, 18 January 2012. Proposals and requests to attend the conference will be accepted beginning Friday, 18 November 2011. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary proposals and participants. Those wishing to present a paper should provide an abstract and a 3-5 page summary of the proposed paper. In choosing papers and participants, the host committee will assign priority to those who have not attended recently or who have never attended. Graduate students wishing to attend or submit a paper proposal should also obtain a letter of recommendation from their dissertation advisor. Those wishing to present papers or JUST TO ATTEND the conference should provide their addresses, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. Those whose papers are selected for presentation will be notified by 14 February 2012 and are expected to provide a completed draft of the paper in the proper format for the conference volume no later than 13 March 2012.

Call for papers - final reminder

Posted Mon, 2012-01-16 14:02 by Anonymous
Name: 
Pierre Siklos
Email: 
psiklos@wlu.ca

WORKSHOP -FINANCIAL MARKETS AND FINANCIAL REGULATION: SOURCES OF INSTABILITY OR GROWTH?
INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
Organized by
Martin T. Bohl, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany
Pierre L. Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University
and Viessmann European Research Centre, Waterloo, Canada
12 April 2012
Even before the financial crisis of 2007-2009 research into the causes and consequences of financial crises was a popular field. Nevertheless, there has been far less effort devoted to exploring the connection, from an historical perspective, between financial systems and their influence on economic development and growth, and financial as well as macroeconomic stability. For the purposes of this workshop we are only interested in analyses that deal with the period before Word War II. The workshop is intended as a pre-conference meeting ahead of the 9-13 July 2012 Conference of the International
Economic History Association (http://www.wehc2012.org/). Topics to be considered for the workshop include but are not limited to:
 the transmission of macroeconomic and financial shocks across countries or regions;
 the state of cooperation in financial and banking markets and the responses and
actions of policy makers;
 asset price behavior before, during, and following financial crises;
 the political economy of finance and banking in centuries past: case studies and
analyses;
LOCATION: Munster Germany and Stellenbosch, South Africa
EXPENSES: Expenses for travel (economy class round-trip) and accommodation will be
partially covered for speakers.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Only complete research papers or extended abstracts
(PDF versions only) should be sent by 31 January 2012 to: Martin T. Bohl, Email:
martin.bohl@wiwi.uni-muenster.de.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2012.
Authors should confirm their participation by 1 March 2012.

CFP: WEHC 2012 Session 228: Gender and the Labor Market

Posted Mon, 2012-01-16 10:28 by Anonymous
Name: 
Jessica Bean
Email: 
beanj@denison.edu

Call for Papers: Session 228 of the XVIth World Economic History Congress,Stellenbosch, 9-13 July, 2012:

Gender and the labor market: women’s work and household strategies in Europe and elsewhere, 1870-1930

Session organizers: Jessica Bean (Denison, OH, USA) and Maria Stanfors (Lund, Sweden)

In this session we invite economic and social historians to contribute to our understanding of gender and labor market participation and outcomes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and elsewhere.

A 2010 workshop held in Hackeberga, Sweden, entitled “New Perspectives on Work and Wages,” brought together economic historians from all over the world to discuss new and innovative research on historical labor markets. One strong theme that emerged focused more specifically on gender and the role of women in the household economy and in the development of industrial labor markets at the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth. This session will reunite some of the original presenters and allow them to present updated research, but also aim to incorporate new presenters and papers on related topics. Participants in this session should present papers that relate to the development of women’s labor supply and work experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in various national contexts.

Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time

Posted Mon, 2012-01-16 10:22 by whaples
Author: 
Rhode, Paul W.
Rosenbloom, Joshua L.
Weiman, David F.
Reviewer: 
Moehling, Carolyn M.

Published by EH.Net (January 2012)

Paul W. Rhode, Joshua L. Rosenbloom, and David F. Weiman, editors, Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xx + 461 pp. $60 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-8047-7185-6.

Carolyn M. Moehling, Department of Economics, Rutgers University.

Geographic Area: 
Africa
Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands
North America
Subject: 
Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Education and Human Resource Development
Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Servitude and Slavery
Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Labor and Employment History
Markets and Institutions
Time period: 
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century: Pre WWII
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

REMINDER: CFP: INEQUALITY, HOUSEHOLD RISK MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Session 177, WEHC, Stellenbosch, 9-13 July 2012. DL Jan 31st.

Posted Mon, 2012-01-16 03:57 by Anonymous
Name: 
Sakari Saaritsa
Email: 
sakari.saaritsa@helsinki.fi

Call for Papers: Session 177 of the XVIth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, 9-13 July, 2012: INEQUALITY, HOUSEHOLD RISK MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

The relationships between inequality, household risk management and economic development form an emerging topic in economic history and development economics. Over the recent decade, empirical analysis has highlighted the harmful effect of vulnerability caused by inequality, poverty and inadequate risk management on human capital formation and long-run development. While research on historical micro data from currently rich countries has gradually deconstructed the “necessary evil” of the Kutznets curve (E.g., Piketty, Postel-Vinay et al. 2006), cross-country analysis has associated higher inequality with lower growth in currently developing economies (E.g., Shorrocks & van der Hoeven (Ed.) 2004). Household survival strategies that involve sacrifice of future human capital for current needs, such as child labour or intrahousehold gender discrimination, have been posited as a source of intergenerational poverty traps and bad equilibria hurting economic development (E.g., Humphries 2010; Humphries, Horrell & Voth 2001; Basu & Van 1998). Cumulative findings based on longitudinal micro data suggest even short-term early-life stress can have significant negative effects on later life health, socioeconomic and demographic outcomes. Such outcomes, then again, carry major implications for labour supply and growth.

Fred Bateman Obituary

Posted Sat, 2012-01-14 13:18 by Anonymous
Name: 
Mike Haupert
Email: 
mhaupert@uwlax.edu

Professor J. Fred Bateman, 74, passed away on Monday, January 10, 2012 at his home in Athens, GA. He was born in Bogalusa, LA. Bateman was the Nicholas A. Beadles Professor in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He moved to Georgia to become department head in 1991 after a long and productive career at Indiana University that began in 1964.

Bateman received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Tulane University, and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina. He spent two years as a research associate at Harvard University before taking his first academic position in the School of Business at Indiana University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1969, Professor in 1975, and added the position of Adjunct Professor of History in 1989. While at Indiana, he served as chairman of the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy from 1970-72 and 1980-88, and of the Graduate School of Business Doctoral Program from 1977-80. He also held visiting positions at the London School of Economics, Purdue University, the University of Lujubjana in Yugoslavia, and De Pauw University. He was the Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of the South in 1980.

Bateman was the author of two books and more than 50 scholarly articles. He edited two other volumes. He was an expert in agricultural history and manufacturing in 19th century America, and a valued co-author. His most frequent collaborators were Jeremy Atack, with whom he authored more than two dozen articles, and Tom Weiss. He also published works on such diverse topics as the economic impact studies of the Pan American Games and Indianapolis conventions.

Call for Papers: Clio sessions at WEAI meetings 2012

Posted Fri, 2012-01-13 22:35 by Anonymous
Name: 
Mike Haupert
Email: 
mhaupert@uwlax.edu

Call for Papers
2011 WEAI Meetings
June 29 – July 3, 2012

The Cliometric Society will sponsor two sessions at the Western Economic Association International annual conference in San Francisco, CA, June 29 – July 3, 2012. The program committee includes Mike Haupert (UW-La Crosse), Andrew Jalil (Reed College), and Dan Bogart (UC-Irvine). Authors interested in presenting a paper should send a one-page proposal including an abstract or description of the paper, and a page including all contact information, to Mike Haupert at haupert.mich@uwlax.edu by February 3, 2012. Please note on the subject line that you are sending a proposal for the WEAI meetings, and include the proposal as an attachment.

Hard copies may be faxed to:

Michael Haupert
WEAI Proposals
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
(608) 785-8549

At least one author must be a member of the Cliometric Society.

Proposals due: February 3, 2012
Authors notified of acceptance of paper: February 17, 2012
WEAI Meetings in San Francisco: June 29 - July 3, 2012

Please email any questions to: haupert.mich@uwlax.edu

At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in Turbulent Times

Posted Fri, 2012-01-13 13:18 by whaples
Author: 
Katzner, Donald W.
Reviewer: 
Ruccio, David F.

Published by EH.Net (January 2012)

Donald W. Katzner, At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in Turbulent Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiv + 199 pp. $50 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-19-976535-5.

Reviewed by David F. Ruccio, Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame

Donald W. Katzner, in invoking the Arthurian legend, may have run the risk of overselling the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. However, both the department he and his colleagues built and his book documenting the history of that department are, in fact, quite honorable.*

The department was remarkable because, with very few exceptions (then or now) among the 125 or so Ph.D.-granting economics programs in the United States, it challenged the prevailing orthodoxy by hiring a significant number of “radical” economists and by training a much larger number of graduate students. It literally defined and then extended the frontiers of radical political economy. And it did so with a neoclassical economist (Katzner himself) as the chair during its early, formative years.

The book itself is noteworthy because it is the only history of an economics department of which I am aware (Frederic Lee’s [2011] effort, which can be usefully read as a companion volume, is a much wider history of heterodox economics in the twentieth century), and it was written by a key participant. The most valuable sections of the book consist of Katzner’s recollections from the 1976-1981 period when he served as chair (with the appropriate caveats about fallible memory), supplemented by interviews he conducted with other participants (both faculty and graduate students) and documents he collected (from before and during his time as chair).

Geographic Area: 
North America
Subject: 
History of Economic Thought; Methodology
Time period: 
20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

January 18 Deadline for May 2012 Cliometrics Conference

Posted Fri, 2012-01-13 12:03 by Anonymous
Name: 
Sumner La Croix
Email: 
lacroix@hawaii.edu

2012 Annual Cliometrics Conference

The annual Cliometrics Conference in 2012 will be held on the weekend of Friday, May 18 through Sunday, May 20 at Westward Look, Tucson, Arizona and hosted by the University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation.

The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new and innovative research in economic history. Typically, twelve papers are selected for presentation and discussion. These are sent out to all conference participants in advance. Each paper is a single session, in which authors have five minutes to make an opening statement and the rest of the hour session is devoted to discussion among all conference participants. All participants are required to read all papers and to attend the entire conference. At least one author must be a member of the Cliometrics Society. For membership information contact Michael Haupert at haupert.mich@uwlax.edu.

Post Doc in Economic History

Posted Fri, 2012-01-13 06:33 by Anonymous
Name: 
Anders Nilsson
Email: 
anders.nilsson@ekh.lu.se

In line with Lund University’s internationalisation strategy, Lund University School of Economics and Management announces one or more positions as post doc in Economic History. The appointment/s is for two years, starting 1 September 2012. The holder will conduct independent research in Economic History. She/he must be willing to interact with the students and to participate actively in the common activities of the Department of Economic History. The position involves a limited amount of teaching and/or supervision of Bachelor and Master's Theses.
To be qualified for employment as post doc, an individual must hold a PhD in Economic History or related discipline (Economics or History), preferably awarded at a non-Swedish university no more than three years ago (unless the applicant has been on parental leave of leave due to illness). Applications are accepted also from persons, who have not yet completed their PhD by 15 February, 2012.
For appointment, the candidate must have demonstrated a high degree of research expertise as manifested in the quality of the PhD dissertation and other publications. The application must include a research plan where the applicant presents his/her own ideas for research to be conducted.
Applications should be written in English. Please use Lund University job application portal when applying: http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=24914&Dnr=439451&Type=E
Applications must be received by February 15, 2012.
For further information, please contact Professor Anders Nilsson, Head of the Department of Economic History: Anders.Nilsson@ekh.lu.se

Banque de France-BETA International Conference

Posted Fri, 2012-01-13 02:55 by Anonymous
Name: 
DIEBOLT Claude
Email: 
cdiebolt@unistra.fr

Banque de France-BETA International Conference
Strasbourg, 13-14 September 2012.

The Banque de France and the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) will jointly organize an international conference on "Macroeconomic and Financial Vulnerability Indicators in Advanced Economies".

The conference will be held in Strasbourg on 13 and 14 September 2012.

The conference aims at bringing together contributions from the academic world, experts from central banks, ministries and economic institutions, rating agencies as well as international organizations.

The selection committee welcomes all contributions regarding vulnerability indicators and their implications, also in the long run of history, for economic and financial stability.

Draft contributions or an extended abstract (3/5 pages) should be addressed before 30 March 2012 in electronic form to the following e-mail address: 1371-fipubeta-ut@banque-france.fr

Authors will be notified about acceptance for presentation during the last fortnight of May.

Please do not hesitate to circulate this call for papers as widely as possible.

Organization Committee:

Banque de France: Carine Bouthevillain, Vladimir Borgy and Gilles Dufrénot.

BETA: Claude Diebolt.

Social Science History conference 2012: Economics network Call for Papers

Posted Thu, 2012-01-12 20:56 by Anonymous
Name: 
Evan Roberts
Email: 
eroberts@umn.edu

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.

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