EH.N: CFP - European Social Science History Conference

[Alexander Field]

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Call for papers - 8th ESSHC April 2010
 
The Economics Network of the European Social Science History Conference invites session and paper proposals for the Eighth European Social Science History conference, which will be held at the Bijloke Site in Ghent, Belgium, 13 - 16 April 2010.
 
More information on the conference can be found at _http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/economics2010.php_
 
Deadline for paper and session proposals is 1 May 2009.
 
The Economics Network anticipates sponsoring 10 sessions of four papers each at these meetings, given the limitations imposed by the size of the overall conference. Please note that the network chairs are especially eager to see complete session proposals, as we find that this is conducive to intellectual coherence in sessions. However, promising single paper submissions will be given every consideration, and we will try to find them compatible sessions for inclusion. Please register on time!
 
Pre-registration
All conference participants are required to register. You can do so on the conference website _http://www2.iisg.nl/esshc/register.asp_
 
Make sure you fill in the pre-registration form, including a 100-500 word abstract of your proposed paper before 1 May 2009 at the ESSHC-site.
 
When you have pre-registered we will send you information on the final registration, payment, and accomodation in the fall of 2009. Below, you will find information on how to register a paper proposal, a session proposal, as chair or discussant or as spectator and on the new features on this website: The chair and discussant pool and the personal page.
 
 At our Network meeting in Lisbon in February of 2008 we generated a list of topics of interest to the members present:
* Inequality and human capital acquisition
* Sources of innovation in the economy -- perhaps joint with the technology network
* Height/mortality and human welfare
* Insights from the Early Modern period which critique the neo-classical paradigm
* Networks of trust -- how they form, how they function
* Critiques of the 'new' institutional economics
* Pre-modern capital markets
* Industriousness and economic growth
* Institutions as engine of economic growth or precursor to stagnation
* Internationalization and national identity of 20th c. private enterprise
* --- and perhaps now of timely interest, historical insights into financial crises.
 
This list is not exhaustive, but meant only to stimulate ideas. We look forward to hearing from you all and seeing you in Ghent in the 
spring of 2010.
 
Network chairs:
 
Anne McCants    MIT, History                                    amccants at mit.edu 
Jochen Streb    University of Hohenheim, Economics      j-streb at uni-hohenheim.de 
Jeroen Touwen   Leiden University, History                      l.j.touwen at hum.leidenuniv.nl 
 Conference website - Additional information regarding the conference can be found at:
_http://www.iisg.nl/esshc_