Summer Term Seminars

Economic History Seminars

The following are public seminars organised by members of the Department of Economic History, held in the Summer Term 2008:

EH510 - Seminar on Modern Economic History

Fortnightly seminars held on Thursdays at the LSE, St Philips Building in Room Z329, starting at 5pm.

Date	Presenter	Paper Title
8 May	Lars Boerner (EUI)	Medieval Matching Markets
22 May	Michael Huberman (Montreal)	Trade and Labour Standards in the Golden Age of Globalization
5 June	David Chambers (Oxford)	Keynes the Investor
19 June	There will not be a seminar this week due to the Epstein Memorial Conference
3 July

EH518 - Seminar on Comparative Economic History

These seminars are held on alternate Thursdays, unless otherwise stated, and will take place from 5 - 6:45pm in Room Z329, St Philips Building, LSE.

Date	Presenter	Paper Title
1 May
15 May	Erik Green (Stockholm)	Colonial Intervention, Chiefs and Agrarian Change: Indirect Rule and Agricultural Extension Services in Nyasaland, c.1933 to early 1950s
29 May	Roza I.M. El-Eini	Irrigable Settlement: The Battle to Control Water Resources in British Ruled Palestine, 1917-1948
12 June	Angus Maddison	Shares of the Rich and the Rest in the World Economy: Income Divergence between Nations, 1820-2030
	*Please note, Angus Maddison's presentation will take place in G1, 20 Kingsway*
26 June

African Economic History Workshop

This workshop will take place on Wednesday 30th April, 2-7pm, in Room D703. All are welcome to participate. If you would like to attend, please inform Gareth Austin (if you have not already done so), so that the papers can be sent to you in advance.

SESSION 1: 2-3.40pm - Pre-Colonial and Colonization
Jelmer Vos [Centro de História de Além-Mar, Lisbon]	Dutch Slave Trading on the Windward Coast, 1740-1805
Gareth Austin [LSE]	Commodity Currencies and the Growth of Markets: Reflections on Precolonial West Africa, c.1450-1890
Marisa Candotti [Italy]	The Societá Africana d'Italia (African Society of Italy, 1880-1940) and West Africa: Projects and Tales Related to Colonization from Southern Italian Businessmen

SESSION 2: 4-5.40pm - Colonial and the Colonial Legacy
Xerxes Malki [Oxford]	Harnessing the Middleman: Economic Policy and the Lebanese in Ghana, c.1930-1972
Alexander Moradi [Oxford]	Colonial Legacy or Colonial Development? Anthropometric Evidence and Implications for Past and Present Africa
Ayowa Afrifa-Taylor [LSE]	The Advantages of Ill-Defined Property Rights: An Examination of the Ashanti Goldfield Corporation's Concession Agreement, 1897-1969

SESSION 3: 6-7pm - Post-Colonial
Erik Green [Stockhom]	State-led Agricultural Intensification and Decline of Capitalist Relations of Labour: The Case of Lilongwe Land Development Programme in Malawi, 1968-1981
Morten Jerven [LSE]	Accounting for an African Growth Success: The Official Evidence, Botswana 1965-1995

EH590 - Thesis Workshop in Economic History

All sessions are on Wednesdays, and begin at 12noon sharp in Room Z329

All PhD students must attend the workshop. If for any reason you cannot make a session, please email Tirthankar Roy at t.roy@lse.ac.uk

30 April
Presenter	Max Schulze
Title	Nationality Conflict, Border Effects and Asymmetric Integration: Evidence from the Habsburg Customs Union (co-authored with Nikolaus Wolf, Warwick and CEPR)
Discussant	Morten Jerven	Chair	t.b.c

7 May
Presenter	Nicolas Grinberg
Title	An Estimation of the Magnitude of Land Rent in Brazil: 1955-2005
Discussant	Marina Martin	Chair	Ting Ting Chang

14 May
Presenter	Martin Uebele
Title	World and National Wheat Market Integration in the 19th Century: A Co-movement Analysis
Discussant	t.b.c	Chair	t.b.c

21 May
Presenter	Aashish Velkar
Title	Market Institutions and Reliable Measurements: Lessons from 19th Century Britain
Discussant	t.b.c	Chair	Xavier Duran

28 May
Presenter	Julia Mensink
*Title*	The Extent and Effectiveness of the Globalization of the HDI
Discussant	Johann Custodis	Chair	Tatiana Gonzalez

4 June
Presenter	Marta Felis-Rota
Title	Economic Geography and International Inequality: The Role of Institutions
Discussant	Kevin Tennent	Chair	Aashish Velkar

11 June
Presenter	Leonardo Weller
Title	The Funding Loan: Why did Rothschild subscribe Brazilian Sovereign Bonds in 1898?
Discussant	Carlos Santiago-Caballero	Chair	t.b.c

18 June
Presenter	Eric Golson
Title	Spanish Civilian Labour in Second World War Germany
Discussant	Julia Mensink	Chair	t.b.c

25 June
Presenter	Peter Cirenza
Title	Melting Pot or Salad Bowl? Assessing Irish Immigrant Assimilation into American Society in the Late Nineteenth-Century
Discussant	Neil Cummins	Chair	Chris Colvin

2 July
Presenter	Albane Forestier
Title	Risk, Kinship and Personal Relationships in the late 18th-Century West Indian Trade: The commercial Network of Tobin and Pinney
Discussant	Leonardo Weller	Chair	Alex Apostolides

Economic History Seminars

EH510 - Seminar on Modern Economic History

EH518 - Seminar on Comparative Economic History

African Economic History Workshop

EH590 - Thesis Workshop in Economic History

Michaelmas Term Seminars

Lent Term Seminars

Business History Unit Seminars

The Nature of Evidence: How Well Do "Facts" Travel? Seminars

Department of Economics Seminars