Social Science History/Science and Technology Workshop
Winter Quarter 2001-2002
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
| Monday, January 7
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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 |
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.