Ce colloque aura lieu au Royal Holloway College, University of London

Friday 2 April 2004

 

0915-1045                Meeting of Economic History Society Publications Committee

 

1100-1400                      Meeting of Economic History Society Council

 

1200-1800                Registration

 

 

1400-1530                      New Researchers’ Session I (5 parallel sessions)

IA:           Tax, Government Debt, Economic Thought and National Income Accounting

The English origins of American Civil War taxation

Jane Flaherty (Texas A&M University)

Dealing with uncertainty: the management of investment in the early English national debt

Anne Murphy (University of Leicester)

Dugald Stewart, physiocracy and the productivity debate

Matthew Wright (University of Bristol)

The retrospective accounts crusade

Cristel de Rouvray (London School of Economics)

 

IB:           Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Commercialism

Enclosure and agricultural development in Scotland

Catherine Douglas (Nuffield College, Oxford)

The South Sea Company’s slaving activities

Helen Paul (University of St. Andrews)

Law, ‘terror’ and the Frame-Breaking Act

Karly Walters (University of Birmingham)

Evolution of an of early colonial policy towards inland commerce and market in late 18th century Bengal

Ujjaya Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta)

 

IC:           Issues in British Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Social History

The distribution of female Friendly Societies across England, 1793-1875

Nicola Reader (University of Leeds)

The parochial (mis)management of bastardy: Chelmsford, Essex, c.1814-34

Thomas Nutt (University of Cambridge)

The cost of keeping quiet: were patients’ secrets up for auction in the historical medical marketplace?

Angus Ferguson (University of Glasgow)

Lady Astor and ladies of the night: the politics and gender dynamics of the Street Offences Committee, 1928

Stef Slater (Royal Holloway College)

 

ID:          Commerce and Industry Before 1918

The British optical munitions industry before the Great War

Stephen Sambrook (University of Glasgow)

Economic warfare during the Great War: a case study of the Hungarian home front

Moni Riez (University of Calgary)

Disclosure of mergers without regulatory restrictions: comparing insider-trading in the years 1908 and 2000 in Germany

Gerhard Kling (University of Tuebingen)

The business network of John Taylor & Sons, 1884-1910

Simon Mollan (University of Durham)

 

IE:           Social Policy in the Developing World after 1945

Educational disparity in Pakistan, 1947-71

M Niaz Asadullah (St. Antony’s, Oxford)

How effective are religious ideals in serving their economic goals? The case of Zakat (a religious tax) in Pakistan, 1980-95

Arshi Khan (London School of Economics)

Industrial demographics and productivity growth: the case of Indonesian manufacturing, 1975-95

Virginie Vial (London School of Economics)

Policy gaps in developing countries: the case of old age pensions in Argentina, 1970-2000

Camila Arza (London School of Economics)

 

1530-1600                      Tea

 

1600-1730                New Researchers’ Session II (5 parallel sessions)

IIA:        The Medieval World

Changes in the manor court before the Black Death

Erin McGibbon (University of Cambridge)

Stratification and division in the late medieval village community

Jennifer Phillips (University of Cambridge)

The economic decline of Circassian Mamluks in Egypt

Wan Kamal Mujani

 

IIB:        Reality in Retail

Productive shopping: the social discourse around shopping in early modern England , c.1660-1800

Claire Walsh (University of Warwick)

Music and the commodification of sound: advertising acoustics in France, 1800-30

Ingrid Sykes (University of Warwick)

The ‘real’ retailing revolution: the impact of self-service methods on food retailing in postwar Britain

Bridget Williams

Containment via 'edutainment': the British advertising industry’s reaction to the rise of consumer movements in the US and the UK, 1930-60

Stefan Schwarzkopf (Birkbeck College, London)

 

IIC:        Currencies and Investment in Historical Perspective

How to make money during the South Sea bubble of 1720 – and how to lose it. The case of the Republic of Berne

Stefan Altorfer (London School of Economics)

Why do investors still hope? The Soviet repudiation puzzle (1918-19)

Kim Oosterlinck (Free University of Brussels)

The endogeneity of optimum currency area criteria in historical perspective: some lessons for European Monetary Union

François Quirici

Bridging the generational divide: currency crisis in theory and history

Conor Healy & Klaus Veigel (Princeton University)

 

IID:       European Social History

Nineteenth century Greek port towns: history, historiography and comparisons

Sakis Gekas (London School of Economics)

Histories, stories and memories: narrating Polish pasts in Britain

Kathy Burrell (De Montfort University)

The relationship between the Labour Party and the City, 1971-2001

Kerry McCarthy (Goldsmiths' College, London)

 

IIE:       British Business and Industry after 1945

Evaluating ‘new trade protectionism’ in the UK car market

James Walker (London School of Economics)

Decartelisation and deconcentration policy: the postwar threat to Unilever’s multinational interests, 1945-50

Ben Wubs (Erasmus University)

‘Visible’ and ‘invisible’ hands: governing the industrial fire service in Britain, 1950-75

Shane Ewen (University of Leicester)

The renaissance of corporate paternalism: the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation in the Gold Coast, 1945-46

Stephanie Decker (University of Liverpool)

 

1730-1830                      Open meeting for women in economic history

1815-1900                      Council reception for new researchers and first-time delegates

1830-1900                      Meeting of delegates from ‘new’ universities

1830-1900                Meeting of Conference Committee

 

1900-2015                      Dinner

 

2030-2130                      Plenary Lecture: Professor Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway College)

Ages and Stages in History

 

Late bar available

 

Saturday 3 April 2004

 

0800-0900                Breakfast (provided in halls of residence)

 

0900-1045                Academic Session I (6 parallel sessions)

IA:     The Bank of England before 1914 (chair: Larry Neal)

Did the Bank of England increase the cost of a British Government default in the 18th century?

Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University)

How English banks learned prudence, 1820-80

Forrest Capie (City University Business School)

How Bagehot’s Rule evolved in the Bank of England from 1834-1914

Larry Neal (University of Illinois) & Marc Weidenmier (Claremont-McKenna College)

 

IB:     Family Relations (chair: Pat Hudson)

Usury legislation, inheritance and credit in late Tudor and Stuart Lincolnshire

Judith Spicksley (University of Hull)

 

Amanda Capern (University of Hull)

Economic transactions and family relations: an English case study c.1680-1750

Pam Sharpe (University of Western Australia)

‘That nasty South Sea affair’: the Hastings sisters, Mrs Bonnell and the rage to speculate

Anne Laurence (The Open University)

 

IC:     Agriculture and Labour (chair: Rick Trainor)

The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: a biological analysis

Robert C Allen (Nuffield College, Oxford)

Hester Temple and ‘the transactional family’

Jason Long (Colby College, Maine)

Far from extinct: farm service and the agricultural labour force in England and Wales, c.1800-1945

Alun Howkins (University of Sussex) & Nicola Verdon (University of Reading)

 

ID:     Health and Growth (chair: Richard Smith)

Health and wealth accumulation of Union Army veterans, 1860-70

Chulhee Lee (Seoul National University)

Mexican fertility transition in the American mirror

Susan Carter & Richard Sutch (University of California, Riverside)

Improvements in the standard of living through cycles of political violence: Colombia, 1910-84

Adolfo Meisel & Margarita Vega (Central Bank of Colombia)

Health and sickness in the late 19th and 20th centuries: a local study

Bernard Harris (University of Southampton) & Martin Gorsky (School of Hygiene & Trop. Med.)

 

IE:    Imperfect Competition (chair: Catherine Schenk)

A corner solution: commodity futures, default fines and unintended consequences [19th century]

Wojtek Sikorzewski (University of Caen)

Passenger shipping cartels and their effect on trans-Atlantic migration in the early 20th century

Richard Sicotte (University of Vermont) George Deltas (University of Illinois) & Peter Tomczak (University of Michigan)

Rent seeking and collusion in the military allocation decisions of Finland, Sweden and the UK, 1920-38

Jari Eloranta (University of Warwick)

 

IF:        Art and Commerce (chair: TBA)

Finance through art [17th-20th centuries]

Raphael Markellos & Vanya Kitsopoulou (Athens University of Economics & Business)

Patents into copyrights: cartels and collusion in the early film industry, 1890-1949

Gerben Bakker (University of Essex)

 

1045-1115                      Coffee

 

1115-1300                Academic Session II (6 parallel sessions)

IIA:     Monetary Issues (chair: Francesca Carnevali)

Exchange rate behaviour and exchange rate puzzles; why the 18th century might help

Rafael Torres, JG Biscarri & F Pérez de Gracia (University of Navarra)

Macroeconomic aspects of independence in Spanish America: the effects of fiscal and monetary fragmentation, 1800s-1860s

Maria Alejandra Irigoin (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)

How much does Original Sin matter? Currency movements and borrowing costs, 1870-1913

Chris Meissner (University of Cambridge), Michael Bordo (Rutgers) & Marc Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna)

 

IIB:     Modern Consumption (convenor: Laura Ugolini) (chair: Frank Trentmann)

'Something for nothing': chewing gum, war and mass consumption [20th century]

Michael Redclift (King’s College London)

Civvies: civilian men and consumption in Britain, 1914-18

Laura Ugolini (University of Wolverhampton)

Selling suburbia to the working-classes in 1930s Britain

Peter Scott (University of Reading)

 

IIC:     Technological Choice (chair: Nick Crafts)

The diffusion of the steam engine in 18th century Britain

Alessandro Nuvolari, Bart Verspagen (Eindhoven University of Technology) & Nick von Tunzelmann (University of Sussex)

Clusters, externalities and innovation: new evidence from German firms, 1878-1913

Anna Spadavecchia (University of Reading) & Joerg Baten (University of Tuebingen and CESifo)

Sherman versus Cromwell: supplying the British army’s tanks for the invasion of Europe 1944

John Buckley (University of Wolverhampton)

 

IID:     Bastardy (chair: Thomas Nutt)

The childwyte fine in rural East Anglia c.1260-1348: index of servility or poverty

Richard Smith (University of Cambridge)

The mortality penalty of illegitimate children: foundlings and poor children in 18th century England

Alysa Levene (University of Bath)

Famine, illegitimacy and the workhouse in the west of Ireland: Kilrush, Co. Clare 1830-80

Liam Kennedy & Paul Gray (Queen’s University Belfast)

 

IIE:     Social Dilemmas (chair: Avner Offer)

The Median Voter Theorem in ancient Athens

Eugene Kontorovich (George Mason University)

Morality and exchange in the Athenian Democracy

Gabriel Herman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

The economics of feuding in late Medieval Germany

Oliver Volckart (London School of Economics)

 

IIF:     Policy and Statistics (chair: Roger Middleton)

Western governments, the Marshall Plan and the adoption of national income statistics after World War II

Till Geiger (University of Manchester)

Managing the economy, managing the people: the statistical aspect [20th century]

Jim Tomlinson (Brunel University)

Learning and change in 20th century British economic policy

Hugh Pemberton (LSE) & Michael Oliver (Bates College, Maine)

 

1300-1400                      Lunch

 

Field trips (optional)

1: 1330-1730                Guided Walking Tour of Windsor and Eton*

2. 1415-1530                Guided Tour of Founder’s Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway College

3. 1600-1715                Guided Tour of Founder’s Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway College

*(Lunch should be taken in the dining room at 1300 prior to departure on the Guided Walking Tour of Windsor and Eton.)

 

1415-1545                      Meeting of Schools and Colleges Committee

 

1415-1600                Academic Session III (6 parallel sessions)

IIIA:    Technology and Growth (chair: Stephen Broadberry)

How and when did Germany catch up to Great Britain and the US? Results from a revised estimate, 1870-1960

Albrecht Ritschl (Humboldt University of Berlin)

Electrifying and digitalising the Finnish manufacturing industry: historical notes on diffusion and productivity [20th century]

Jukka Jalava (Helsinki School of Economics)

Endowments, market potential and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland, 1918-39

Nikolaus Wolf (London School of Economics)

Comparing electricity and ICT: not so enlightening?

Ronald Albers (European Commission)

 

IIIB:     Production and Consumption in the Industrial Revolution (chair: TBA)

The production and consumption of iron in early modern England, 1530-1790

Peter King (University of Wolverhampton)

Patterns of textile consumption in pre-industrial Spain: Castile, 1750-1850

Fernando Ramos (Harvard University)

Productivity and household economy in a Tyneside mining community, 1770-1850

Peter Kirby (Manchester)

 

IIIC:     Banks Through the Ages (chair: Larry Neal)

Florentine bankers and Papal finances in the first half of the 16th century

Francesco Guidi Bruscoli (Queen Mary, University of London)

Limited liability, ownership and control: Irish banking before World War I

John Turner & Graeme Acheson (Queen’s University Belfast)

White-collar labour markets, 1890-1914: evidence from the banking industry

Andrew Seltzer (Royal Holloway College)

 

IIID:     Risk management (chair: TBA)

Managing portfolio risk pre-World War I

Janette Rutterford (The Open University)

Can raw material supply risks determine technological choices? Evidence from the British cotton spinning industry, c.1900

Tim Leunig (London School of Economics)

 

IIIE:     Institutional Choice (chair TBA)

Path dependence in institutions: the English Poor Laws, 1550-1850

Douglas Puffert (University of Warwick)

Institutional innovation and infrastructure investment: an evaluation of the turnpike system in 18th century England

Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine)

Costs and efficiency in the nationalised British Gas industry, 1950-65

Andrew Jenkins (Institute of Education, University of London)

 

IIIF:     Sterling Under Stress (convenor: Michael Oliver) (chair: Ranald Michie)

Sterling and the exchange rate policies in the 1950s

Peter Burnham (University of Warwick)

The Empire Strikes Back: the Sterling Area and the decline of Sterling, 1965-73

Catherine Schenk (University of Glasgow)

Downhill from devaluation: the battle for Sterling, 1967-72

Arran Hamilton (University of Warwick) & Michael Oliver (Bates College, Maine)

 

1600-1630                Tea

 

1730-1830                      Annual General Meeting of the Economic History Society

 

1930-2000                      Conference Reception

 

2000                        Conference Dinner

 

Late bar available

 

Sunday 4 April 2004

 

0800-0900                Breakfast (provided in halls of residence)

 

0915-1115                 Academic Session IV (6 parallel sessions)

IVA     Banking and Growth (chair: Duncan Ross)

Did banks cause the German industrialisation?

Carsten Burhop (University of Münster)

Did governance fail interwar universal banking?: Lessons from moral hazard and conflicts of interest in Italy, 1914-33

Stefano Battilossi (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)

An alternative rationale for the introduction of bank-centred economic systems in Germany and Japan and a re-evaluation of their efficacy

Richard Werner (Sophia University, Tokyo)

 

IVB:    Ancient World (chair: Margaret Yates)

Population and economy in Roman Italy; some theoretical perspectives

Neville Morley (University of Bristol)

The demography of Roman Egypt: mission impossible?

Dominic Rathbone (King’s College London)

Land as currency in Anglo-Saxon England

Jennifer Brown (Wright State University)

 

IVC:     Asian Growth (chair: TBA)

A model of immigration to Southeast Asia, 1880-1939

Gregg Huff (University of Glasgow) & Ulrich Woitek (University of Munich)

Paths of growth: economic growth in East Asia and peripheral Europe, 1960-2000

Luciano Amaral (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Were all colonial states predatory? Some evidence from Southeast Asia

Anne Booth (SOAS)

 

IVD:   Occupational Change during the Industrial Revolution

                (convenors: Leigh Shaw-Taylor & Tony Wrigley; chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor)

What do occupational descriptors really tell us? Evidence from 18th century Northamptonshire

Leigh Shaw-Taylor (University of Cambridge)

Male occupational change in Hertfordshire, 1759-1851: an example of relative occupational stability

Viktoria Masten (University of Cambridge)

Male occupational structure in Northamptonshire, 1762-1851: a case of partial de-industrialisation

Amanda Jones (University of Cambridge)

Occupational change in the early 19th century

Tony Wrigley (University of Cambridge)

 

                                IVE:   Political Risk (chair: TBA)

British business, the third Reich and the assessment of ‘political risk’

Neil Forbes (Coventry University)

Transition from market to command economy in one year: the case of Estonia, 1940-41

Olaf Mertelsmann (University of Tartu)

Expropriation and restitution: dealing with the Nazi heritage in post-World War II Austria

Michael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University)

 

                                IVF:     Gender Identity (convenor/chair: Nicola Verdon)

In search of the ‘wild’ outdoors: northern moorlands and manly identity, 1880s-1920s

Melanie Tebbutt (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Women domestic and farm workers in Munster, 1936-60: insights from personal testimonies

Máire Leane & Liz Kiely (University College Cork)

 

1115-1145                      Coffee

 

1145-1300                      Tawney Lecture

Professor Riitta Hjerppe (University of Helsinki)

Paper title: TBA

 

1300-1400                      Lunch

 

Rural-urban migration and socio-economic mobility in Victorian Britain