DATE

SPEAKER

Wednesday, September 30

Organizational meeting

Wednesday, October 7

Paul David, All Souls College, Oxford University, and Stanford University. A Tale of Two Traverses: Continuity and Changes in U.S. Macroeconomic History, 1880-1990.

Wednesday, October 14

Martha Olney, UC Berkeley. Consumerism: An Economist's Perspective.

Wednesday, October 21

Richard Sutch and Susan Carter, UC Riverside, TBA.

Wednesday, October 28

(Meeting on Friday)

Friday, November 6

Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University. Why Was There More Work for Mother? Knowledge and Household Behavior, 1870-1945.

Wednesday, November 11

Sheila Johansson, Cambridge University. Morality Transition or Transitions? Implications for Knowledge.

Wednesday, November 18

Jan de Vries, UC Berkeley. The Price of Bread and the Standard of Living in Early Modern Europe, With Special Reference to the Netherlands.

Friday, November 20

Roberto Cortes Conde, Harvard University.  The Political Economy of Nation-Formation: Fiscal Crisis and Inflation in XIX Century Argentina.

Wednesday, November 25

Thanksgiving break

Wednesday, December 2

Nathan Sussman, The Hebrew University. Institutions and Country Risk: Evidence from Japanese Government Debt in the Meiji Period.

Wednesday, December 9

Dead week