DATE

SPEAKER

Wednesday, October 1

Peter Lindert, UC Davis. "Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch."

Wednesday, October 8

Gavin Wright, Stanford. "Slavery and American Agricultural History.

Wednesday, October 15

Marc Flandreau, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. "The Making of Global Finance: Souvereign Risk and International Financial Integration."

Wednesday, October 22

Caroline Fohlin, Johns Hopkins University. "Financing and Governing German Industry: Institutional Change over the Twentieth Century."

Wednesday, October 29

Carol Shiue, University of Texas. "Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution."

Wednesday, November 5

Bishnupriya Gupta, University of Warwick. "The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800."

Monday, November 12

David Jacks, UC Davis. "What Drove 19th Century Market Integration?" 

Wednesday, November 19

Alan Taylor, UC Davis. "Indian Land, State Revenue: The Oneida Country and the State of New York, 1783-1810."

Wednesday, November 26

Thanksgiving.

Wednesday, December 3

Mark Kanazawa, Carleton College. "Nothing is Certain but Debt and Taxes: The Political Economy of Taxation during the California Gold Rush."