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Penn Economic History Forum

2011-2012

All sessions of the Penn Economic History Forum, unless otherwise noted, will be held from 2-4PM in the College Hall 209.

Co-Conveners:
Walter Licht (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

November 4, 2011

Steven Nafziger, Department of Economics, Williams College

"Serfdom, Emancipation, and Off-Farm Labor Mobility in Tsarist Russia" 

December 2, 2011

Michael Zakim, Department of History, Tel Aviv University

“Producing Capitalism: The Clerk at Work"

January 27, 2012

Thomas Max Safley, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

“Social Networks and South German Capital:  Reflections on a Current Fashion”

February 3, 2012

Gary Gerstle, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

“Public Power, Private Power, and the Construction of the American State”

Hard copies of the paper are available in the History Department Office (College Hall 208)..

February 24, 2012

Daniel Raff, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

“The Oxford University Press from the 1890s through 2004: An Anti-Whig Evolutionary Economic History”

Note: This talk will be held in College Hall 205.

March 16, 2012

Joshua Getzler, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford and University of Pennsylvania Law School

“Charity and Welfare in the Long 18th Century: Church, Courts, and Parliament in Contest”

April 20, 2012

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Department of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

“Inherited- versus Self-Made Wealth in Paris 1872-1937”