DATE

SPEAKER

Wednesday, April 2

Aldo Musacchio, Stanford.  "Building Credible Commitments: Bankruptcy Law and the Transition to a Republican Government in Brazil, 1880-1930."

Wednesday, April 9

Timur Kuran, USC.  "The Economic Ascent of the Middle East's Religious Minorities:  The Role of Islamic Legal Pluralism."

Wednesday, April 16

Dan Klein and John Majewski, Santa Clara University.  "America's Toll Roads Heritage: The Achievements of Private Initiative in the 19th Century."

Wednesday, April 23

Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University.  "Why Doesn't the U.S. Have a European Style Welfare State."

Wednesday, April 30
NOTE:  This session meets jointly with the International Trade and Development Seminar at 3:30 p.m.

Alan Taylor, UC Davis.  "The Rise and Fall of World Trade, 1870-1939." Joint with A. Estevadeordal and B. Frantz.

Wednesday, May 7

Chiaki Moriguchi, Northwestern University.  "Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach their Implicit Contracts? Preliminary Findings from Company-level Data, 1920-1940."

Wednesday, May 14

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, UCLA and INRA-LEA Paris.  "Organizational Choice and Economic Development: A Comparison of France and the United States During the Mid-Nineteenth Century."

Wednesday, May 21

Peter Gourevitch, UCSD.  "The Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation."

Wednesday, May 28

Carmit Segal and Azeem Mahmud Shaikh, Stanford University.  "The Early Development of the European Legal System."