EH.N: FW: help with clio sessions

[Joseph R. Mason]

There are so many people who are not attending the ASSA meetings this year
that gathering discussants and chairs has been very difficult. Hence, the
Cliometric Society is soliciting participants who are willing to discuss the
following papers. Please reply to Joe Mason at joseph.r.mason at gmail.com to
express you willingness to help. Your help is appreciated in making this
year's meeting a success!

 

 

ASSA/Clio Session II Summary (Abstracts of papers below)

Jan. 4, 12:30 pm, Hilton Atlanta, Room 208

 

SESSION TITLE: Trade

 

 

PAPER: Trading Inequality?  Comparing the Two Globalization Waves in Latin
America. A. Leticia Arroyo Abad Department of Economics University of
California, Davis and Amelia Santos-Paulino WIDER United Nations University

 

DISCUSSANT: ___________________________________

 

PAPER: Did the Industrial Revolution Make a Difference? Identifying the
sources of the comparative advantage gains from trade in the case of Japan
ca. 1860, Daniel M. Bernhofen University of Nottingham and GEP and John C.
Brown Clark University and GEP 

 

DISCUSSANT: ___________________________________

 

 

 

ASSA/Clio Session III Summary (Abstracts of papers below)

Jan. 3, 10:15 am, Hilton Atlanta, Room 209

 

SESSION TITLE: Productivity

 

 

PAPER: Making Sense of the Manufacturing Belt: Determinants of U.S.
Industrial Location, 1880-1920  Alexander Klein  and Nicholas Crafts
Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United
Kingdom

 

DISCUSSANT: ___________________________________

 

PAPER: Ideas, Technology, and Economic Change: The Impact of the Printing
Press 

Jeremiah Dittmar - UC Berkeley  

 

DISCUSSANT: ___________________________________

 

PAPER: Intercontinental Trade, Industrious Revolution and Growth Before the
Industrial Revolution, Guillaume Daudin, OFCE & Jacob Weisdorf, University
of Copenhagen

 

DISCUSSANT: ___________________________________