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Wednesday 27 February 2008
8.30
J-3
ECO01
Women and Investment: England, Wales and Canada in the late 19th century
Room 3.1
David Green, Alastair Owens : Lives in the balance? Women’s financial assets and debts in late nineteenth-century England and Wales Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford : Consols, Home Rails and Foreign Things: women and investment in England and Wales in the early twentieth century
Wednesday 27 February 2008
10.45
J-4
ECO02
The Material Well-Being of Women: Studies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 3.1
Kris Inwood : The Changing Physical Standard of Living for British and Canadian Women, 1850-1950. Stephan Klasen, Parvati Truebswetter : Emigration and Gender Bias in Mortality in Ireland, 1850-1930.
Wednesday 27 February 2008
14.15
M-5
ECO03
Inequality and Human Capital Acquisition in the 17th - 19th centuries I
Room 5.2
Jord Hanus, Wouter Ryckbosch : L'histoire immobile? Or how to measure social structures and mobilities in pre-industrial urban societies Kerstin Manzel, Jörg Baten : Gender Inequality in Numeracy: The case of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1870-1940 Leandro Prados De La Escosura : International Inequality and Polarization in Living Standards, 1870-2000: Evidence from the Western World Jaime Reis : Is Education a Good Proxy for Human Capital? Measurement and Distributional Issues in Portugal during the 19th Century Tim Wegenast : Educational distribution within countries: the legacy of landlords
Wednesday 27 February 2008
16.30
A-6
ECO04
Gateways, Hinterlands and Urban Networks: Transportation, Trade and Distribution from European Gateway Cities, 1650-1900
Cave A
Marion Huibrechts : The importance of Liège arms trade in the American Revolutionary era Pourchasse Pierrick : The linseed trade from Northern Europe to Brittany Jeroen Salman : The role of the itinerant bookseller in the Dutch distribution network (1700-1850) Michael-W. Serruys : Urban networks on the move. The Austrian Netherlands' transit policy and the influence on the commercial flows between the Southern Netherlands and the Dutch Republic (1713-1789) Miki Sugiura : Dutch inland distribution system. Goods-specialized merchants in gateway cities and hinterlands 1600-1750.
Thursday 28 February 2008
8.30
K-7
ECO05
The Theory of Economic History and Representatives of Time and Temporality
Room 4
Andreas Langenohl : Welfare Fictions and Financial Imaginaries: The Link between Orders of Justification and Financial Temporality Kerstin Schmidt-Beck : Remembering Global Financial Crises? "Doing and Un-doing History" in Narrative and Discourse. Paul Sharp, Karl Gunnar Persson : Why were American farmers angry during the grain invasion era, 1870-1900?
Thursday 28 February 2008
10.45
K-8
ECO06
Determinants of success and failure in firms in the 19th and 20th centuries I
Room 4
Roger Lloyd-Jones, M J Lewis : 'Meeting the Needs of the Customer: Marketing, Product Development, and Factoring in the British Machine Tool Industry, Alfred Herbert Ltd, 1887-1970 Anna Spadavecchia, Peter Scott : The 1919 reduction of working hours and labour productivity: the British case
Thursday 28 February 2008
14.15
I-9
ECO07
Determinants of success and failure in firms in the 19th and 20th centuries II
Room 2.1
Robert Möllenberg : Market power and price discrimination: The economic activities of the two independent network operators WLAG and WÜSAG in the electricity industry of Wurttemberg 1924-1933 Jochen Streb, Jonas Scherner : Learning, Outsourcing, and Investment: Explaining Growth of Output and Labor Productivity in the German Armament Industry during World War II N-9 TEC04 Engineering, applied science, and industrial innovation Room 6.1
David Mitch : The Rise of the Engineering Profession and Industrial Innovation in 20th Century Britain Alessandro Nuvolari, Christine Macleod : "Glorious Times": The Emergence of Mechanical Engineering in Early Industrial Britain, C 1700-1850
Thursday 28 February 2008
16.30
E-10
NMECO
Network meeting: Economics
Cave E
Friday 29 February 2008
8.30
O-11
ECO08
Origins of Economic Growth in the 19th and 20th centuries
Room 7.1
Christopher Ebert : European competition and cooperation in the first stage of trans-oceanic globalization: Portuguese Africa, 1500-1600. Ewout Frankema : Wage Inequality in Twentieth Century Latin America: A Comparative Perspective Milja van Tielhof, Jan Luiten Van Zanden : Productivity changes in shipping in the Dutch Republic: the evidence from freight rates 1550-1800 Jacob Weisdorf, Holger Strulik : The Simplest Unified Growth Theory
Friday 29 February 2008
10.45
C-12
ECO09
The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy I: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Central Europe
Cave C
Mark Häberlein : Merchants’ bankruptcies, economic development, and social relations in German towns during the ‘long’ sixteenth century Erich Landsteiner : The Eagle and the Stag. Habsburg state finance and the bankruptcy of Jobst Croy (1591) Dana Stefanova : Viennese Charted Bank and Bankrupcy, 1787-1830 Andre Wakefield : Public Money and Private Ruin: Johann von Justi's Prussian Misadventure M-12 ELI12 Economic elites Room 5.2
Matthieu Leimgruber : Bringing Private Insurance Back In. The “Geneva Association” and the Rise of Elite Business Policy Groups in the post-Keynesian Decades (1970-2000) Yovanna Pineda : Identifying the Relationship of Elite Entrepreneurial Networks through Marriage, Social Clubs, and Litigation: Argentina’s Elite Business Networks, 1890-1940 Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen : Social mobility in Finnish Who’s Who data during 1909-2005
Friday 29 February 2008
14.15
C-13
ECO10
The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy II: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Western Europe
Cave C
Amalia Kessler : Bankruptcy and the Reconceptualization of Merchant-Court Jurisdiction in Eighteenth-Century France Klas Nyberg : Networks, Migration and the Transformation of the Merchant Elite in 18th Century Stockholm Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl : The Napoleonic Wars and the risk of Failure: German merchant houses in Britain (1793-1815) N-13 ELI13 Economic, political and cultural capital in 20th century Scandinavia Room 6.1
Pål Brunnström : Class identity and class politics among Swedish industrialists 1918 to 1939 Kari-Matti Piilahti : Power and Networks of Finnish Business Elite 1850-1940 Niklas Stenlås : A Swedish Model of Management? How Sweden's Business Elite adapted to Social Democratic Power
Friday 29 February 2008
16.30
C-14
ECO11
The Economic, Legal and Social History of Bankruptcy III: Bankruptcy in Early Modern Mediterranean
Cave C
Mauro Carboni : Learning from others’ failures: the rise of the Monte di pietà in early modern Bologna Gerald Grommes : Bankruptcies in Early Modern Castile from a Social Network Perspective: The Example of Medina del Campo Banks, 1550-1600 Leonard Rosenband : Producers and Failure during the Age of Revolutions: The Case of Papermaking in France and England
Saturday 1 March 2008
10.45
O-16
ECO12
Cooperation between employers and labour
Room 7.1
Dennie Oude Nijhuis : The importance of worker solidarity: Employers, unions, and the development of old age pensions, 1946-1975. Hugh Pemberton : Forces of reaction? The trade unions and earnings-related pensions in Britain in the 1950s Jeroen Touwen : Policy Learning and Labour Relations in the Netherlands, Sweden and New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s |
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