2008-2009
All sessions of the Penn Economic History Forum, unless otherwise noted, will be held from 2-4PM in the Lea Library on the 6th Floor of the Van Pelt Library.
Co-Conveners:
Walter Licht (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
October 3, 2008
Richard White, Margaret Bryne Professor of American History, Stanford University
“Kilkenny Cats: Transcontinental railroads, destructive competition, and the odd road to North American modernity”
November 7, 2008
Francesca Carnevali, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Birmingham
“Communities of Interest. Social capital and trade associations in England and America in the late 19 th century”
December 5, 2008
Gavin Wright, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Stanford University
"Economics and the Civil Rights Revolution"
Download Wright, 'Southern Business and Public Accommodations: An Economic-Historical Paradox' (PDF)
January 23, 2009
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University
“Movements and markets in the first millennium: information, containers and shipwrecks”
February 13, 2009
Yanni Kotsonis, Associate Professor of Russian and European History, New York University
"The Old Regime and Economic Liberalism: Tax Reform and the Emergence of the Idea of an Economy in Nineteenth Century”
March 6, 2009
Andrew Godley, Professor of Management, University of Reading
'The Chicken, the Factory Farm, and the Supermarket: Technological Innovation and Vertical Restraints in Poultry Farming in Britain, Australia and the United States, 1950-1980”
This event has been CANCELLED.
April 3, 2009
Howell Harris, Professor of History, Durham University
“What Price Competition? Cooperative Associationalism in the US Stove Industry, c. 1870-1925”
2007-2008
All sessions of the Penn Economic History Forum, unless otherwise noted, will be held from 2-4PM in the Lea Library on the 6th Floor of the Van Pelt Library.
Co-Conveners:
Walter Licht (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
October 5, 2007
Bill Summerhill, Department of History, University of California-Los Angeles
"The Origins of Economic Backwardness in Nineteenth-Century Brazil"
November 9, 2007
Alan Olmstead, Department of Economics, University of California-Davis
"Wait a Cotton-Pickin' Minute! A New View of Slave Productivity"
December 7, 2007
Jessica Goldberg, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
"Principals and Agents? Re-Thinking Relations between Merchants from the Cairo Geniza"
January 18, 2008
Leon Fink, Department of History, University of Illinois-Chicago
"Liberty before the Mast: The Nineteenth Century Sailor and the Political Narrative of Freedom"
February 15, 2008
Meir Kohn, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College
"The Expansion of Trade and the Development of European Industry to 1600"
March 7, 2008
John K. Brown, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia
"A Front Man for a Speculative Age: The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Rise of Andy Carnegie, 1864 - 1874"
April 4, 2008
Ghislaine Lydon, Department of History, University of California - Los Angeles
"A 'Paper Economy of Faith' without Faith in Paper: A Contribution to Understanding Islamic Institutional Constraints"
2006-2007
All sessions of the Penn Economic History Forum, unless otherwise noted, will be held from 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. in the Lea Library on the 6th Floor of the Van Pelt Library. Papers will be available by calling the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania at (215) 898-8452 or on this site.
Co-Conveners:
Walter Licht (History Department, University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
October 6, 2006
Lawrence Mitchell, School of Law, George Washington University
"The Rise of American Corporate Capitalism"
November 10, 2006
Molly Greene, Department of History, Princeton University
"Networks of Protection in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
December 1, 2006
Patrick O'Brien, Economic History Department, London School of Economics
"The Formation of a Mercantilist State and the Economic Growth of the United Kingdom, 1453-1815"
January 19, 2007
Timothy Leunig, Economic History Department, London School of Economics
"Transport improvements, agglomeration economies and city productivity: at what point did motorised transport raise British wages?"
February 9, 2007
Prasannan Parthasarathi, Department of History, Boston College
"Trade and industry in the Indian Subcontinent, 1750-1913"
March 2, 2007
Bruce Carruthers, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
"The Mechanization of Trust: Credit Rating in 19th-c. America"
April 6, 2007
William St. Clair, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
"The Political Economy of Reading"
2005-2006
All sessions of the Penn Economic History Forum, unless otherwise noted, will be held from 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. in the Lea Library on the 6th Floor of the Van Pelt Library. Papers will be available by calling the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania at (215) 898-8452 or on this site.
Co-Conveners:
Walter Licht (History Department, University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
October 7, 2005
William Collins, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University
"The Economic Aftermath of the 1960's Riots: Evidence from Property Values"
November 11, 2005
Paul Duguid, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California-Berkeley
"Brands in Chains: The History of Trademarks and the Management of Supply Chains in Nineteenth Century Britain and Twentieth Century Silicon Valley"
December 9, 2005
Nathan Ensmenger, Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
"The Computer Boys Take Over: The Organizational Politics of Technological Expertise, 1952-1968"
January 20, 2006
Philip Scranton, Rutgers University, Department of History and Hagley Museum and Library
"Technology-Led Innovation: Jet Engines, Cold War Contracting, and the Dilemmas of Science"
February 17, 2006
Regina Blaszczyk, Hagley Museum and Library
"The Color Revolution: Innovations in 20th Century Fashion and Marketing"
February 20, 2006
Richard von Glahn, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
"Foreign Silver Coins and Market Culture in 19th-Century China"
Hosted by the Department of History, The Center for East Asian Studies and the Penn Economic History Forum
March 24, 2006
Steven Topik, Department of History, University of California-Irvine
"Historicizing Commodity Chains. Thinking About Things, Structures, Systems and Especially Coffee"
April 14, 2006
David Washbrook, St. Anthony's College, Oxford
"Colonialism and Capitalism in South Asia"
2004-2005
All sessions of the Penn Economic History Forum, unless otherwise noted, will be held from 2:00 - 4:00 P.M. in the Lea Library on the 6th Floor of the Van Pelt Library. Papers will be available by calling the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania at (215) 898-8452 or on this site.
Co-Conveners:
Walter Licht (History Department, University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
October 1, 2004
Peter Lindert, Department of Economics, UC-Davis
"Preliminary Global Price Comparisons, 1500-1870"
November 12, 2004
Mary O'Sullivan, INSEAD Strategy
"Living with the U.S. Financial System: The Experiences of General Electric and Westinghouse in the Last Century"
December 20, 2004
Michael Gilsenan, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
"A Trust in the Family: Arab Kinship, English Law, and the Transmission of Property in Colonial Singapore"
January 21, 2005
Margaret Levenstein, Office of Survey Research, University of Michigan
"Financing Invention during the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920"
February 18, 2005
Walter Licht, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
"Facing Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century -- The Responses and Roles of Organized Capital and Labor"
March 18, 2005
Carol Heim, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Border Wars: Tax Revenues, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix"
April 15, 2005
Lynn Lees, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
"Constructing Colonial Spaces in British Malaya: Alternative Worlds of Town and Plantation"
2003-2004
October 3, 2003
Katherine van Wezel Stone, Law School and Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University
"Widgets to Digits and the Legal Regulation of the Workplace in its Historical Context"
November 7, 2003
Frederick M. Scherer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"Intellectual Property in Music Composition, 1750-1900"
December 12, 2003
Robert Vitalis, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
January 30, 2004
Eric Orts, Department of Legal Studies, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Historical Perspectives on a Social Theory of the Business Enterprise"
February 13, 2004
Harold James, Department of History, Princeton University
"Family Capitalism and Steel in a Comparative Perspective: Italy, France and Germany"
March 5, 2004
Daniel Raff, Department of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
April 9, 2004
Ron Harris, School of Law, Tel Aviv University
"Institutional Innovation and Theories of the Firm: The Formation of the East India Company"
