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Social Science History/Science and Technology Workshop

Spring Quarter 1999-2000

 

DATE

 

SPEAKER

Wednesday, April 7

 

Larry Lau, Stanford University, joint with Y. Godo, Meiji Gakuin University, and Y. Hayami, Aoyama Gakuin University.  Human Capital Accumulation in Modern Economic Growth: A Comparison of Japan and the US
(cancelled)

Wednesday, April 14

Ken Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine.  East Asia, Europe, and the Industrial Revolution.

Wednesday, April 21

Herb Klein, Columbia University and Stanford University. Poor Whites and Free Colored in the Brazilian Slave Economy - The Case of Sao Paulo in the 19th century.

Wednesday, April 28

No seminar.

 

Friday, May 7

SSHW Conference on Institutions and Economic History.

Wednesday, May 12

Ken Sokoloff, UCLA.  The Market in Patented Technologies and Patterns of Inventive Activity in the United States 1840-1920.

Friday, May 21

Steve Quinn, Texas Christian University. Do Constitutions matter in Economic Development? The Glorious Revolution as a Test Case.

Wednesday, May 26

Ramon Myers, Hoover Institution. Economic Developments:  China, 1644-1800.

Wednesday, June 2

J.L. Rosenthal, UCLA.  No Exit: Bankruptcies and the Evolution of Financial Intermediation in Paris, 1740-1850.

 

Regular Meetings: Wednesdays, 1:15-3:00 p.m., in Room 218 of the Landau Economics Building.  Papers available in advance from Debbie Johnston in Room 260. Friday meetings at same time and place.

 

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