EH.N: CfP: WEHC Session on Monetary Problems and Monetary Policies: The World Economy Before 1800

[munro5 at chass.utoronto.ca]

Call for Papers:

Monetary Problems and Monetary Policies: The World Economy Before 1800

Accepted session for the XVth World Economic History Congress: to be 
held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, 3-7 August 2009


This session seeks to provide a broad survey of world monetary history: 
one that covers  East Asia, India, the Muslim world, Africa, and Latin 
America, as well as the traditional "West."  We request contributions 
for the monetary history of the whole pre-modern period;  that is, from 
the emergence of coinage in antiquity up to the development of modern 
monetary systems, including experiments with fiat moneys, at the very 
end of the early modern age (i.e. up to 1800). The focus is explicitly 
on money and coinage (but not on numismatics), and not on finance and 
fiscal issues or policies; and this focus is to be seen in its relevant 
economic context, and not examined in isolation.

Papers should thus be directed to the analysis of three core areas of 
interest to economists:

(1) the role of money in a micro-economic perspective; that is, its use 
by individual and corporate actors,
(2 ) the importance of coinage and other forms of money in the 
macro-economy, i.e.  their influence on regional or national economic 
performance and on aggregate values such as price levels, etc., and
(3) monetary policies: those of princes (secular and ecclesiastical), 
towns, regional or ‘provincial’ governments, and national states.

Contributions that examine interlinkages between these fields of inquiry 
and that are based on a comparative approach are particularly welcome.

To be considered for the session, paper titles and outlines must be 
received by the organizers no later than 14 February  2009.  Proposals 
may be sent either to Munro or Volckart, at the email addresses below. 
We should note, however, that we have already accepted 20 participants.

John H. Munro
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA M5S 3G7

+1 – 416 – 978-4552 (telephone)
+1 – 416 -  978 – 6713 (fax)

e-mail:  john.munro at utoronto.ca
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/

Oliver Volckart
Economic History Department
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London,  WE2A 2AE
UNITED KINGDOM

+44 - (0)20 - 7955.7861
Email:  o.j.volckart at lse.ac.uk