Editors' Notes

2004 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

The editors and the Association wish to thank all those who were program committee members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, and local arrangement committee members at the 2004 Economic History Association Meetings.

• Lee Alston, University of Colorado and NBER
• Ashish Arora, Carnegie Mellon University
• Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
• Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University and NBER
• George Bittlingmayer, University of Kansas
• Michael Bordo, Rutgers and NBER
• Maristella Botticini, Boston University
• Stephen Broadberry, University of Warwick
• Joyce Burnette, Wabash College
• Ann Carlos, University of Colorado
• Greg Clark, University of California, Davis
• Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University
• Linda Cohen, University of California, Irvine
• Andrew Coleman, University of Michigan
• Lee Craig, North Carolina State and NBER
• Bradford DeLong, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
• Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley
• Michael Edelstein, Queens College, CUNY
• Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
• Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester and NBER
• Maryann Feldman, University of Toronto
• Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER
• Alex Field, Santa Clara University
• Price Fishback, University of Arizona
• Jeffery Furman, Boston University
• Richard Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley
• Shane Greenstein, Northwestern University and NBER
• Avner Greif, Stanford University
• Farley Grubb, University of Delaware
• Bronwyn Hall, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
• Michael Hanemann, University of California, Berkeley
• Elizabeth Hoffman, University of Colorado
• Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology
• Paul Hohenberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College
• Timothy Leunig, London School of Economics
• Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis and NBER
• Deidre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Jacob Metzer, Hebrew University
• Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
• J. Peter Murmann, Northwestern University
• Larry Neal, University of Illinois and NBER
• Douglass C. North, Washington University at St. Louis
• John Nye, Washington University at St. Louis
• Kelly Odell, Scripps College
• Cormac O'Grada, University College Dublin
• Joseph Reid Jr., George Mason University
• Joshua Rosenbloom, University of Kansas and NBER
• Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, University of California, Los Angeles
• Richard Steckel, Ohio State University and NBER
• James Stewart, Reed College
• Richard Sutch, University of California, Riverside and NBER
• Richard Sylla, New York University and NBER
• Ross Thomson, University of Vermont
• Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
• Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Susan Wolcott, State University of New York, Binghampton
• Bin Wong, University of California, Irvine
• Brian Wright, University of California, Berkeley
• Gavin Wright, Stanford University

2005 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 16–18 SEPTEMBER 2005

The sixty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Canada, 16–18 September 2005. The preliminary program follows.

Friday Afternoon 1:30–3:15

SESSION 1A: WHAT MAKES THEM PAY?

Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, Chris Meissner, Cambridge University, and Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College, “Original Sin, Good Housekeeping and Empire: The Relation between Currency Risk and Default Risk, 1870–1913”

Marc Flandreau, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and Clemens Jobst, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, “Clio and the Economics of International Currencies, 1890–1910”

Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College, and Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University, “Supersanctions and Debt Repayment”

SESSION 1B: LEVIATHAN IN DEBT

Farley Grubb, University of Delaware, “The Net Asset Position of the U.S. Federal Government, 1784–1802: Hamilton's Blessing or the Spoils of War?”

Chris Rohlfs, University of Chicago, “How Much Did the U.S. Government Value its Troops' Lives in World War II?: Evidence From Dollar-Fatality Tradeoffs in Land Battles”

Graham Brownlow, Auckland University of Technology, “Democratic Deficits and Fiscal Subventions: Economic Policy and Institutional Responses to Terrorism in Northern Ireland, 1969–1990”

Friday Afternoon 3:30–4:40

SESSION 2A: WAR WILL GET YOU THERE

Thomas Weiss, University of Kansas, “War and Tourism”

Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis, and Reuven Glick, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, “Collateral Damage: The Economic Impact of War, 1870–2000”

SESSION 2B: CREDIT AND WEALTH UNTERDENLINDEN

Timothy Guinnane, Yale University, “Regional Banks for Micro-credit Institutions: ‘Centrals' in the German Cooperative System before the First World War”

Fabien Dell, DIW, Berlin, and Paris-Jourdan, “Top Incomes in Germany over the Twentieth Century”

Saturday Morning 8:30–10:15

SESSION 3 A: FIGHT NOW PAY LATER, EUROPEAN FINANCE AND WAR

Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology, “Why is that Europeans Ended Up Conquering the Rest of the Globe? Prices, the Military Revolution, and Western Europe's Comparative Advantage in Violence”

Larry Neal, University of Illinois, Ann Carlos, University of Colorado, and Kirsten Wandschneider, Middlebury College, “The Origins of National Debt: The Financing and Re-financing of the War of the Spanish Succession”

Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and New York University, “Credit Rationing And Crowding Out During The Industrial Revolution: Evidence From Hoare's Bank, 1702–1862”

SESSION 3 B: CIVIL ACTIONS

Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College, “Creative Destruction: Technological Change and Resource Reallocation during the American Civil War”

John James, University of Virginia, and David Weiman, Barnard College, Columbia University, “Towards a More Perfect Monetary Payments Union”

Chulhee Lee, Seoul National University, “Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1880”

Saturday Morning 10:30–12:15

SESSION 4A: BOMBS, GERMS, AND INVADERS

Edward Miguel and Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley, “The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam”

Maristella Botticini, Boston University, “The Black Death of 1348 and Wealth Distribution and Accumulation in Florence, 1250–1450”

Hein A. Klemann, Erasmus University Rotterdam, “Did the German Occupation (1940–1945) Ruin Dutch Industry?”

SESSION 4B: MANAGING POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY

Aurora Gómez Galvarriato, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, and Aldo Musacchio, Harvard University, “Stock Prices, the Stock Market, and the Costs of the Mexican Revolution”

Eugene White, Rutgers University, and Kim Oosterlinck, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, “The Nazi Squeeze on the Capital Markets in Occupied France”

Gabriela Recio, University of California, San Diego, “Revolution, Lawyers and Firms: The Brewer Business Community in Mexico, 1920–1940”

Saturday Afternoon: 1–2

Business meeting

Saturday Afternoon: 2–4

Dissertation session

Saturday Afternoon: 4:30–6:00

PLENARY SESSION

Robert H. Bates, Harvard University, “Contemporary State Failure In Historical Perspective”

Niall Ferguson, Harvard University and University of Oxford, “The Economics of ‘Destructivity': Reassessing Military Performance in the World Wars”

Sunday Morning 8:30–10:15

SESSION 5A: INSTITUTIONS OF UNEQUAL PAY

William A. Sundstrom, Santa Clara University, “Unequal Opportunities: Segregation, Monopsony, and Racial Wage Discrimination in the Twentieth Century”

Thomas Geraghty, University of North Carolina, and Thomas Wiseman, University of Texas Austin, “Wage Strikes in 1880s America: A Test of the War of Attrition Model”

Lee Alston, University of Colorado, Jeffery A. Jenkins, Northwestern University, and Tomas Nonnenmacher, Allegheny College, “Who Should Govern Congress? The Salary Grab of 1873 and the Coalition of Reform”

SESSION 5B: GROWTH AND CONFLICT

Marjolein 'tHart, University of Amsterdam, “War and an Economic Miracle: The Dutch Republic in Comparative European Perspective, c. 1570–1700”

Duol Kim, University of California, Davis, and Ki-Joo Park, Naksungdae Institute of Economic Research, “Colonialism, Warfare, and Industrialization: Manufacturing Productivity of Colonial Korea, 1913–1945”

Mary MacKinnon, McGill University, and Chris Minns, Trinity College, Dublin, “The First World War and the Emergence of National Markets in Canada”

Sunday Morning 10:30–12:15

SESSION 6A: AMERICA AT WORK

Marina Adshade, Dalhousie University, and Ian Keay, Queen's University, “Enabling the Visible Hand: Female Labor Force Participation and Industrial Concentration in the Early Twentieth Century”

Martha J. Bailey, Vanderbilt University, and William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University, “The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s”

Price Fishback, University of Arizona, Shawn Kantor, University of California, Merced, and Todd Sorensen, University of Arizona, “The Impact of the New Deal on the Diffusion of Tractors in the 1930s”

SESSION 6B: ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT?

Stephen Broadberry, University of Warwick, and Mark Harrison, University of Warwick, “The Economics of World War I: A Comparative Quantitative Analysis”

Albrecht Ritschl, Humboldt University of Berlin, “The Pity of Peace: The German Economy at War, 1914–1918 and Beyond”

Byron Lew, Trent University, and Marvin McInnis, Queen's University, “Guns and Butter: World War I and the Canadian Economy”

ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS

The 2006 annual conference of the Economic History Society will be hosted by the University of Reading from 31 March to 2 April.

The conference programme committee welcomes proposals in all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries, and particularly welcomes papers of an interdisciplinary nature.

The committee invites proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions (3–4 speakers, 1.5 hours duration). The latter should include proposals and synopses for each paper in the session, although the committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be presented in the session if it is accepted. If a session is not accepted, the committee may incorporate one or more of the proposed papers into other panels.

For each proposed paper, please send (preferably by e-mail) a brief c.v. and a short abstract (including name, postal and e-mail addresses) of 400–500 words to: Maureen Galbraith, Economic History Society, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, 4 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK. E-mail: [email protected].

For full consideration, proposals must be received by 19 September 2005. Notices of acceptance will be sent to individual paper givers by 18 November 2005.

It is expected that prospective speakers will obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist overseas speakers who are unable to obtain funding from another source. For details and an application form contact Maureen Galbraith ([email protected]). A completed application form must be included by the September deadline with the paper proposal and c.v. Only in exceptional circumstances will later applications for support be considered.