EH.N: Call for Proposals: 2008 SSHA Conference

[Anne McCants]

Call for Proposals for Economics Network 2008 SSHA Conference October 
23-26, 2008 Miami, FL

Panels for the 2008 SSHA meetings in Miami, Florida (October 23-26, 
2008) must be complete and submitted by the Network for consideration 
by the Program Committee by February 1, 2008. Individual submissions 
should arrive to the Economics network co-chairs in advance of that 
date if at all possible.

Tim Leuning - T.Leunig at lse.ac.uk
Anne McCants - amccants at mit.edu
Santhi Hejeebu -- SHejeebu at cornellcollege.edu

The economics network meeting at the November 2007 meetings generated 
numerous ideas for panel sessions that might address the 2008 
conference theme [It's About Time: Temporality and Interdisciplinary 
Research], have a regional topic, or build on local arrangement 
committee expertise, which we list below. However, individual paper 
submissions on any topic are welcome, as are full panel proposals not 
listed below.

1)  Memorial Panel - Jerry Feldman
Problems in the Political Economy of Germany and Austria in the 20th century

2)  Caribbean Slavery or Slave Trading
1807/08 trade embargo effects?

3)  Business History - western limited liability, joint-stock forms

4)  Business History - non western forms
Chaebol, zaibatsu, commercial trading networks

5)  Business History - comparative corporate governance

6)  History of Technology

7)  LSE Group - How do facts travel?
See their web site for more information about this project 
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/Research/facts/

8)  Book Panels?

a) Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode: Biological Innovation and American 
Agricultural Development or Human and Animal Health and the Origins 
of American Economic Regulation
b) Price Fishback, ed: Government and the American Economy: A New 
History (or another book?)
c) Thomas McCraw: Prophet of Innovation - Schumpeter biography
d) Findlay and O'Rourke: Power and Plenty - Trade, War and World 
Economy in the Second Millennium

9)  Comparative Empires

10)  Caribbean Economic History

11)  Drug Trade - welfare effects

12)  Latin American Economic Development

13)  The Ancient Economy: new methods and themes

14)  Civil law and common law

15)  Reconciling time series and cross sectional data. (Possible 
Presidential theme panel?)