SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY WORKSHOP

Spring Quarter 2007

Wed Apr 4 Guy Michaels. LSE. “The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization.”

Wed Apr 11 Leah Platt Boustan. UCLA . "Flight from the City: The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods"

Wed Apr 18 Jared Rubin. Stanford. “The Persistence and Divergence of Economically Suboptimal Religious Norms: Interest Bans in Islam and Christianity.”

Wed Apr 25 Eugenia Belova. Hoover. “ Secret Public Finance: Revenues and Expenditures of the Soviet Communist Party, 1938-1965."

Wed May 2 Scott Taylor. University of Calgary. "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison.”

Wed May 9 Steve Haber. Stanford. "Is there really such a thing as a 'rentier state'"?

Wed May 16 George Grantham. McGill University. “In Search of an Agricultural Revolution.”

Wed May 23 Kris Mitchener. Santa Clara. “Are Hard Pegs Credible in Emerging Markets? Lessons from the Classical Gold Standard."

Wed May 30 Aldo Musacchio. HBS. “Stock Market Development, Ownership Concentration, and Investor Protections in Brazil Since 1890.”

Wed Jun 6 Diego Sasson. Stanford. “Risk Sharing and the Industrial Revolution: An Endogenous Macro Explanation.”

End quarter period June 1-7

End quarter exams June 8-13

Regular Meetings, Wednesdays, 1:30-3:00 in Room 351, Landau Economics Building. Papers available in advance from Debbie Johnston in Room 260. Electronic copies available on the web at:

http://www-econ.stanford.edu/events/seminars.html