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Green Mountain Economic History Workshop Series


Sponsored by the Department of Economics, University of Vermont



Schedule for the Spring 2008 Semester

Date, Time, and Location

Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Thursday, April 24th
3:30-5:00pm
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221
William Summerhill
Department of History
University of California--Los Angeles
THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED




Schedule for the Fall 2007 Semester

Date, Time and Location                          

Speaker and Affiliation                                        
Title of Paper
Tuesday, October 16th
3:30-5:00pm
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221

Aldo Musacchio
Harvard Business School
Harvard University--CANCELLED
THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED
Tuesday, October 30th
3:30-5:00pm
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221

Douglas A. Irwin
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight
Losses from US Tariffs, 1859-1961



Schedule for the Fall 2006 Semester

Date, Time and Location

Speaker and Affiliation                                        
Title of Paper
Friday, October 27th     
4:30-6:00pm
Warner 506
Middlebury College

Gail Triner
Department of History
Rutgers University
State-Owned Enterprise, Industrialization, and Subsoil Property Rights Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s
Wednesday, November 29th                                  
3:30-5:00pm
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221

Richard Sicotte
Department of Economics
University of Vermont
Passenger Shipping Cartels and their Effect on Trans-Atlantic Migration



Schedule for the Spring 2006 Semester


Date, Time, and Location

Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Tuesday, March 28th         
3:30-5:00pm                                  
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221

Jane Knodell
Department of Economics
University of Vermont                          
Private Banking and Economic Growth in the Middle West, 1840-60
Tuesday, April 4th            3:30pm-5:00pm
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221

Catalina Vizcarra
Department of Economics
University of Vermont
Guano, Credible Commitments, and State Finances in Nineteenth Century Peru



Schedule for the Fall 2005 Semester

Date, Time and Location

Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Tuesday, September 20th 3:30-5:00pm                
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221

Marc Law
Department of Economics
University of Vermont
Earmarked: The Political Economy of Agricultural Research Appropriations
(joint with Gary Miller and Joseph Tonon, Washington University, St. Louis)


Thursday, November 10th, 3:30-5:00pm
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221

Noel Johnson
Department of Economics
California State University at Long Beach
Banking on the King: The Evolution of the Royal Revenue Farms in Old Regime France


Schedule for the Spring 2005 Semester

Date, Time, and Location

Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Friday, January 21st, 3:30-5:00pm
Robert A. Jones House
Middlebury College

Isabel Schnabel
Max Planck Institute
and MIT Department of Economics

The German Twin Crisis of 1931
Friday, February 18th, 3:45-5:00pm    
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221

Michael Bordo
Department of Economics
Rutgers University and NBER
Financial Crises, 1880-1913: The Role of Foreign Currency Debt
(joint with Chris Meissner, University of Cambridge and NBER)


Schedule for Fall 2004 semester


Date, Time, and Location

Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Thursday, October 7th,
3:30-5:00pm
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221
Kirsten Wandschneider
Department of Economics
Middlebury College

The Stability of the Inter-War Gold Standard: Did Politics Matter?
Thursday, October 28th, 4:00-6:00pm,
John Dewey Lounge                     
UVM Presidential Lecture
                                   
Joel Mokyr
Department of Economics
Northwestern University

The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth
Tuesday, November 16th, 3:30-5:00pm
UVM Economics Seminar Room
Old Mill 221
Ross Thomson
Department of Economics
University of Vermont

From the Old to the New: The Social Basis of Innovation in the Antebellum U.S.

Workshop Organizing Committee:

Marc Law, Department of Economics, UVM, E-mail: Marc.Law@uvm.edu
Richard Sicotte, Department of Economics, UVM, E-mail: Richard.Sicotte@uvm.edu
Ross Thomson, Department of Economics, UVM, E-mail: Ross.Thomson@uvm.edu
Catalina Vizcarra, Department of Economics, UVM, E-mail: Catalina.Vizcarra@uvm.edu


Last Updated: February 13, 2008