EH.N: Call for Applications: Third Joint Summer School of the GLOBALEURONET

[Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur]

Third Joint Summer School of the GLOBALEURONET 
Research Networking Programme and the Marie Curie 
Research Training Network
"Unifying the European Experience"

Economic and Social Inequalities In Historical Perspective
Supported by the European Historical Economics Society

Hosted by the Paris School of Economics
Monday 7 July to Friday 11 July 2008

Academic Organizers:
Stefano Battilossi (University Carlos III and GLOBALEURONET)
Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick and CEPR)
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (Paris School of Economics and EHESS)
Kevin O'Rourke (Trinity College Dublin, CEPR and GLOBALEURONET)

Local organizer:
Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (Paris School of Economics and EHESS)

Lecturers:
Robert Allen (University of Oxford)
Gilles Postel-Vinay (EHESS and PSE)
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology)
Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
Daniel Waldenstrom (Research institute of industrial economics)
Jeffrey Williamson (Harvard University)

Programme
The Summer School has a duration of 5 days. Each 
day there will be two main lectures by invited 
speakers in the morning. In the afternoon 
simultaneous Student Sessions will take place, in 
which Ph.D. and Post-doc students will present 
and discuss their research papers with senior 
scholars.

The lead speaker for this Summer School, Robert 
Allen, is one of the most influential economic 
historians today, the author of path-breaking 
monographs, articles and contributions in books 
on British agriculture, the soviet industrial 
revolution and many other topics. He has recently 
researched extensively the global history of 
wages, prices and living standards. All other 
lecturers have been actively engaged in the 
measure and understanding of inequalities at 
various geographical levels and historical 
periods. This summer school will introduce 
students to the current research frontier in this 
area.


General Description
This summer school aims at revisiting the 
measurement, origins, and consequences of 
economic and social inequalities in a historical 
framework. The questions will be pursued over a 
broad time span from the neolithic revolution to 
the twenty-first century and across the globe. 
The roles of markets, property relations, 
informal institutions, and state activities will 
be addressed. Policies to deal with inequalities 
will also be dealt with. How have changes in 
property rights and in the intended and 
unintended actions of governments affected 
inequality?

Bob Allen will define the themes in a broad way 
in five lectures on the grand transitions of 
world history: the shift from foraging to 
agriculture, the transition from ancient slavery 
to medieval serfdom, the great divergence in 
world incomes since 1492, the industrial 
revolution, and the unsuccessful attempt to 
replace capitalism with communism in the Soviet 
Union.


The Organizers
The school is jointly organized by the Research 
Training Network 'Unifying the European 
Experience: Historical Lessons of Pan-European 
Development' (based at CEPR and funded under the 
EU Sixth Framework Programme) and the ESF 
Research Networking Programme GLOBALEURONET. Both 
networks aim to contribute to the development of 
a truly European economic history profession by 
analyzing the economic development of Europe as a 
whole. The CEPR-based Research Training Network 
collects pan-European data and stimulates the use 
of up-to-date economic and historical techniques 
to provide accounts of European growth, economic 
integration, economic and social policies, and 
the changing nature of Europe's economic 
relationships with the rest of the world. The ESF 
Programme GLOBALEURONET organizes networking 
research activities and data collection at 
European level in areas such as welfare 
indicators, historical economic geography, 
business cycles, technological change, human 
capital and the diffusion of knowledge. The 
Atelier Simiand at the Paris School of Economics 
groups a number of historians and economists 
aiming at developing innovative research programs 
in economic history. Their research focuses in 
particular on financial, labour and inequalities’ 
history.


Participants
The school is targeted to doctorate and 
post-doctorate students in economics, economic 
history and related disciplines.

Applications and deadlines
The participants will be selected on the basis of 
the information included in the application form 
(a word version can be downloaded at: 
http://www.paris-jourdan.ens.fr/reche/simiand/simconfe_eng.php). 


Applicants are requested to fill in the form and 
return it electronically, together with a short 
CV, to Ms. Sapna Patel, CEPR Meetings Assistant 
at: spatel at cepr.org (tel. +44 20 7183 8813) by 
May 1st 2008. Accepted candidates will be 
notified by the end of May, 2008.

Fees and Scholarships
Participants will be charged EUR 1,000 covering 
registration, meals, boarding and background 
material. However, a number of grants covering 
travel expenses and fee waivers will be 
available, and we strongly encourage all those 
interested in participating to apply.