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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