Econ 325: Social Science History


Winter 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 Elias Papioannou, Dartmouth College Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Download PapioannouE12_1.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Christian Dippel, UCLA Franchise Extension and Elite Persistence: The Post-Slavery Caribbean Plantation Complex
Download Dippel10_26.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Saumitra Jha, Stanford University GSB Trade Shocks, Mass Mobilization, and Decolonization: Evidence from India's Independence Struggle
Download Jha12_7.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence For the Mid-Century GI Bills
Download Fetter11_2.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Michael Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER Why didn't Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, 94 1907, or...)?
Download Bordo10_12.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Martha Bailey, University of Michigan The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception Women's Labor Supply and the Gender Gap in Wages
Download Bailey10_6.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jason Long, Colby College Social Mobility Within and Across Generations in Britain Since 1851
Download Long11_17.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Oliver Falck, University of Munich Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
Download Falck11_3.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar (Thanksgiving Week) 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 218
January 1 Peter Zeitz, Stanford University Trade in Equipment and Technological Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Split
Download Zeitz10_27.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 William Darity Jr., Duke University and CASBS From the Dissertation to Capitalism and Slavery: Did Williams' Abolition Thesis Undergo Mutation?
Download Darity11_16.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians
Download Doran10_19.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar-Thanksgiving Week 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine Parliament, Adaptable Property Rights, and London's Expansion: 1600-1830
Download Richardson10_13.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Josiah Ober, Stanford University Wealthy Hellas
Download Ober11_9.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Ann Carlos, University of Colorado Risk Management in the Early Years of Financial Capitalism
Download Carlos10_5.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College Did France Cause the Great Depression? (Joint seminar with International Trade Workshop)
Download Irwin11_10b.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 JOINT with Applied Microeconomics and Econometrics 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 12:00 am

Spring 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 Steve Nafziger, Williams College How Did Ivan's Vote Matter? The Political Economy of Local Democracy in Tsarist Russia
Download SNafziger3_10.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jeff Miner, Stanford University Profit and the Patrimony: Private Debt and Public Wealth in Fourteenth Century Genoa
Download Miner2_15.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Peter Temin, MIT Price Behavior in the Roman Empire
Download Temin3_21.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Lee Alston, University of Colorado at Boulder Family Matters: The Agricultural Ladder, Inheritance, and Rural-to-Urban Capital Mobility
Download Alston2_29.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 John V.C. Nye, George Mason University Does Fortune Favor Dragons?
Download Nye3_2.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Ross Thomson, University of Vermont The Continuity of Wartime Innovation: The Civil War Experience
Download ThomsonContinuityInnovStanford0209.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Steve Usselman, Georgia Tech Learning At and From IBM: Innovation Policy across the American Century (Joint seminar with Science and Technology)
Download Usselman2_23.pdf
Download Usselman2_23_2nd.pdf
12:00 am
Gunn/SIEPR Bldg Room 320
January 1 Ludger Woessman, University of Munich The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Values and Human Interactions Ninety Years after the Fall of the Habsburg Empire 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Seema Jayachandran, Stanford University Modern Medicine and the 20th Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs
Download Jayachandran2_10.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 NO SEMINAR (SPRING BREAK) 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Dave Donaldson, MIT Railroads and American Economic Growth: New Data and Theory 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University When the Levee Breaks: Labor Moility and Economic Transition in the American South
Download Hornbeck2_8.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Fabian Waldinger, University of Warwick Peer Effects in Science (Joint meeting with Social Science and Technology Seminar)
Download Waldinger3_3.pdf
12:00 am
*Note Special Time and Location* SIEPR B*
January 1 William Summerhill, UCLA Sovereign Borrowing in Imperial Brazil
Download Summerhill_Stanford_Sovereign_Debt.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Petra Moser, Stanford University Do (Unregulated) Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from U.S. Industries Under the New Deal
Download Moser2_22_12.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Luz Marina Arias, UCSD Indigenous Origins of Colonial Institutions
Download Arias3_9.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Alex Whalley, UC Merced
Shawn Kantor, UC Merced
Separating the Roles of Church and State in the Ascendancy of American Higher Education, 1900-1914
Download Kantor Whalley 10 12 09.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Philip Thai, Stanford University Smuggling, State-Building, and Political Economy in Coastal China, 1927-1937 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 12:00 am

Summer 2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
January 1 Jared Rubin, CSU Fullerton Printing and Protestants: Reforming the Economics of the Reformation
Download Rubin5_25.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Priya Satia, Stanford History Department The British State and the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from a Quaker Gun-Maker 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Michael Bordo, Rutgers
Chris Meissner, UC Davis
Financial Globalization, Financial Crises and Economic Growth in the Golden Age, 1870-1914 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Roy Mill, Stanford University Disentangling skin-color discrimination from family background differences: evidence from African-Americans in the early twentieth century 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Albrecht Ritschl, LSE and CEPR Depression Econometrics: A FAVAR Model of Monetary Policy During the Great Depression
Download Ritschl3_30.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 No Seminar 12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Price Fishback, University of Arizona The New Deal and the Diffusion of Tractors in the 1930s
Download Fishback5_11.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Carola Frydman, MIT Predators or Watchdogs? Bankers on Corporate Boards in the Age of Finance Capitalism
Download Frydman4_27.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Daniel Strum TBA 12:00 am
Bubble Room (225)
January 1 Mark Harrison, University of Warwick Secrecy and Transaction Costs: The Business of Soviet Forced Labour in the Early Cold War
Download Harrison4_20.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Cal Tech The democratization of longevity: How the poor became old in Paris, 1870-1940
Download Rosenthal_May.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Dan Bogart, UC Irvine A Small Price to Pay: Regulation and Rates of Return in Britain's Infrastructure Sector during Industrialization
Download Bogart5_2.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Cal Tec Inherited vs Self-Made Wealth: Theory & Evidence from a Rentier Society
Download Rosenthal5_18.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Steve Haber, Stanford University Rainfall, Human Capital, and Democracy
Download Haber4_6.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Noel Maurer, Harvard Business School The Empire Trap: The Market Reaction to American Overseas Intervention, 1904-29
Download Maurer5_16.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Noam Yuchtman, UC Berkeley Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
Download Yuchtman4_18.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Joachim Voth, ICREA/UPF and CREi Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
Download Voth5_4.pdf
12:00 am
Econ Bldg 351
January 1 Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Financial Crisis on Innovation: The Case of Cleveland, Ohio, 1920-40 (Joint with SIEPR Social Science and Technology Workshop)
Download Lamoreaux5_4.pdf
12:00 am
Gunn/SIEPR Bldg Room 320
January 1 12:00 am

2008 - 2009

Date Speaker Title Time/Place