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Social Science History/Science and Technology Workshop

Winter Quarter 2001-2002

 

DATE

 

SPEAKER

Monday, January 7

 

Patrick O'Brien, London School of Economics.  "Endogenous and Exogenous Technological Progress:  Macro Inventors and Macro Inventions in the English Cotton Textile Industry from John Kay to Edmund Cartwright."

January 8-February 8

NOTE:  No meetings because of Economics Job talks

Monday, February 11

Benjamin Chabot, University of Michigan.  "Keep a Good House? The Cost of Exchange Rate Risk during an American Currency Crisis."

Wednesday, February  20
3:30-5:00PM (Joint with Trade & Development)

Asaf Zussman, Stanford University.  "The Rise of German Protectionism in the 1870s:  A Macro-economic perspective."

Wednesday, February 27

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Hoover Institution. "Why the North should have seceded from the South: An estimate of Slavery's enforcement costs."

Wednesday, March 6

Guillaume Daudin, Stanford University.  "Profits in Intercontinental Trade: The Case of 18th Century France."

Wednesday, March 13

Roy Gardner (Indiana University), R. Mason (Cornell University) and N. Gaston (Bonn).  "Tolling the Rhine: Complementary Monopoly Revisited."

 

Note change in meeting day

Regular Meetings changing to Wednesdays on February 20, 1:15-3:00 p.m., in Room 351 of the Landau Economics Building.  Papers available in advance from Debbie Johnston in Room 260. 

 

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