DATE

SPEAKER

Wednesday, April 3

No meeting.

Wednesday, April 10

Stephen Haber, Armando Razo, and Noel Maurer. "When Institutions Don't Matter: The Mining Economy of Revolutionary Mexico, 1876-1929."

Wednesday, April 17

Joel Mokyr, Northwestern and CASBS. "Technology and the Factory System."

Wednesday, April 24

Tetsuji Okazaki, University of Tokyo.

Wednesday, May 1

Ryo Kamabayshi, Tokyo Metropolitan University. "The Registration System and the Grade Wage System: The Emergence of Labor Markets in the Japanese Silk Reeling Industry."

Wednesday, May 8

Eona Karakacili, University of Toronto and UC-Davis.  "Rethinking Development in Pre-Industrial England?  Agrarian Labor Productivity Rates Before the Black Death."

Monday, May 13

Bruce Campbell, Queens-Belfast.  "Rethinking the medieval feudal English Economy."

Wednesday, May 15

Ross Thomson, University of Vermont.

Wednesday, May 22

John Wallis, University of Maryland.  "Constitutions, Corporations, and Internal Improvements:  American States in the 1840s."

Wednesday, May 29

Carlos Alvarez Nogal.  "Sovereign Debt and Economic Institutions:  The Borrowing Game of the Spanish Monarchy in Castile during the Hapsburg Dynasty (1516-1665)."

Wednesday, June 5

Gary Richardson, UC-Irvine.  "The Complexity of Craft Guilds in Late-Medieval England:  A Pious and Profitable Mystery."