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Green Mountain Economic History Workshop Series


Sponsored by the Department of Economics, University of Vermont




Schedule for the spring 2012 semester

Date. Time, and Location
Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Thursday, February 9th
4:00-5:30pm
Old Mill 221
UVM

Larry Neal, University of Illinois
I am not Master of Events:  The Speculations of John Law
and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
Thursday, March 22nd
4:00-5:30pm
Lafayette L307
UVM

Jac Heckleman, Wake Forest University
A Spatial Analysis of Delegate Voting at the Constitutional Convention



Schedule for the fall 2010 semester

Date. Time, and Location
Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Thursday, October 28th
4:00-5:30pm
Old Mill 221
UVM

Price Fishback
Department of Economics
University of Arizona
and NBER
In Search of the Multiplier for Federal Spending in
the States during the New Deal

Thursday, November 11th
4:00-5:30pm
Old Mill 221
UVM

Richard Vanden Bergh
School of Business
University of Vermont
Do Administrative Procedures Matter? The Effect
of State Administrative Procedure Acts on State
Government Expenditures



Schedule for the fall 2009 semester

Date, Time, and Location

Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Monday, September 28th
4:30-6:00pm
Warner Hemicycle Room
Middlebury College

Jeffrey Williamson
Department of Economics
Harvard University

Trade and Poverty Over Two Centuries

Thursday, October 1st
4:00-5:30pm
Old Mill 221
UVM

Stephen Meardon
Department of Economics
Bowdoin College
Reciprocity and Henry C. Carey's traverses
on "the road to perfect freedom of trade"

Friday, October 16th
4:00-5:30pm
Old Mill 221
UVM

Werner Troesken
Department of Economics
University of Pittsburgh
Quackery

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Thursday, November 12th
4:00-5:30pm
Old Mill 221
UVM

Ian Keay
Department of Economics
Queen's University
Industrial Development Despite Parochial
Technology



Schedule for the fall 2008 semester

Date, Time, and Location

Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Wednesday, October 1st
3:30-5:00pm
Old Mill 221
UVM

Ross Thomson
Department of Economics
University of Vermont
"The Continuity of Wartime Innovation:
The Civil War Experience"
POSTPONED
New date to be announced.


Warren Whatley
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
"Guns for Slaves: The 18th Century British
Slave Trade in Africa"
Thursday, October 23rd
3:30-5:00pm
Old Mill 221
UVM
Andres Gallo
Department of Economics
University of North Florida
"The Political Economy of Property Rights:
Rural Rents Legislation in Argentina,
1940-1960."



Schedule for the spring 2008 semester


Date, Time, and Location

Speaker and Affiliation
Title of Paper
Thursday, April 24th
3:30-5:00pm
Old Mill 221
UVM
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
Old Mill 221
UVM

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

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, Nov 29th
3:30-5:00pm 
Old Mill 221
UVM
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
Old Mill 221
UVM

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
Old Mill 221
UVM

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
Old Mill 221
UVM

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
Old Mill 221
UVM

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
Old Mill 221
UVM

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
Old Mill 221
UVM

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
UVM Presidential Lecture
John Dewey Lounge
                                   
Joel Mokyr
Department of Economics
Northwestern University

The Intellectual Origins of
Modern Economic Growth

Tuesday, November 16th
3:30-5:00pm
Old Mill 221
UVM
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 dot Law at uvm dot edu

Richard Sicotte, Department of Economics, UVM, E-mail: Richard dot Sicotte at uvm dot edu

Ross Thomson, Department of Economics, UVM, E-mail: Ross dot Thomson at uvm dot edu

Catalina Vizcarra, Department of Economics, UVM, E-mail: Catalina dot Vizcarra at uvm dot edu


Last updated: March 20, 2012