EH.N: ANN: Paris Summer school, deadline approaching

[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 207183 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.