CAGE, EHES & IAS Summer School 2017 Geography, Institutions and Economic Growth in History University of Warwick, 11 th to 15 th July 2017 Scarman Conference Centre Organisers: Stephen Broadberry and Alexander Klein Tuesday 11 th July (Day 1) 12:00 Registration 12:30 Lunch 13:45 Introduction and Welcome 14:00 Keynote Lecture: Nicholas Crafts (Warwick) Globalization and Divergence: Geography Matters 16: 00 Lecture: Kerstin Enflo (Lund University) Can Kings Create Towns that Thrive? The long-run consequences of Swedish town plantations on urbanization and agricultural surplus. 17:00 Student Presentations and Feedback Thilo Huning: How Britain Unified Germany: Endogenous Trade Costs and the Formation of a Customs Union Ivan Luzardo: Labour frictions in the turbulent twenties in Britain; A story of industrial reshuffling and regional divergence Julius Probst: Agglomeration forces in Sweden: A study of Swedish cities and municipalities since 1800 18:30 Day 1 ends
Wednesday 12 th July (Day 2) 09:30 Lecture: Joan Rosés (LSE) Housing and Economic Development: New Evidence from Historical Economic Geography 11:00 Lecture : Alex Klein (University of Kent) Economic Geography in Historical Perspective: Some Methodological Notes 12:00 Lunch 14:00 Student Presentations and Feedback Alexandra Lopez Cermeno: A Dynamic Von Thünen model: agricultural specialization Andrea Ramazzotti: Transport, Travel Time and the Location of Industrial Activities in Italy, 1921-1971 Alexander Reinold: Market access and agricultural productivity across the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of the 19th century Eric Melander: Creating Us and Them : Racial Propaganda, Insularity and Right-Wing Ideology Ariane Salem: Pauperization and Inequalities in the rural economy in Morocco during the Protectorate (1917-1956) Meng Wu: Traditions and innovations: An exploration of the management structure of the Chinese Shanxi piaohao (banks), 1820s to 1930s Andreas Ferrara: Economic and Social Integration of Minorities: The Effect of WWII on Racial Segregation 18:00 Day 2 ends 18:30 BBQ Scarman Terrace
Thursday 13 th July (Day 3) 09:30 Lecture: Dan Bogart (UC Irvine) Transport improvements, market access, and economic growth during the industrial revolution 11:00 Lecture: Walker Hanlon (UCLA) "Dynamic Comparative Advantage in International Shipbuilding and the Transition from Wood to Steel" 12:00 Lunch 14:00 Student Presentations and Feedback Heyu Xiong: U.S. railroads and gauge standardization Harm Zwarts: The nineteenth-century origins of agricultural innovation in the Netherlands in a European perspective Thor Berger: Ingenuity, Innovation, and Infrastructure Kostadis Papaioannou: Rainfall Patterns & Human Settlement in Tropical Africa & Asia Compared: Did African Farmers Face Greater Insecurity? Matthew Curtis: Long-run intergenerational mobility in Quebec Nayeli Salgado: Highways, population density and industrialization in Mexico 17:30 Day 3 ends
Friday 14 th July (Day 4) 09:30 Lecture: James Foreman-Peck (Cardiff) Late Marriage as a Contributor to the Industrial Revolution in England 11:00 Keynote Lecture: Sheilagh Ogilvie (Cambridge) "The Second Serfdom in Early Modern Central Europe" 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Student Presentations and Feedback Felix Kersting: Weber's Call: Nationalism and Migration in Prussia, 1895-1913 Calumet Links: Manifest destiny: Did the advancement of the Cape colonial frontier stunt long term economic growth? Christian Ochsner: Dismantled once, diverged forever? A quasi-natural experiment of Red Army disassemblies in post-wwii Europe Maria Hidvégi: Institutional constraints on knowledge management: energy efficiency and mobility in Hungary, 1968-1989 Kara Dimitruk: English Parliament and the Effects of the Glorious Revolution: New Evidence from Parliament's Legislative Activity Thomas Keywood: Determinants of Violence in Eastern Europe from the 5th Century Jakob Schneebacher: Governance in Heterogeneous Societies: Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Switzerland Stefan Nikolic: Income Inequality in Eastern Europe, 1900 1950 18:00 Day 4 ends
Saturday 15 th July (Day 5) 09:30 Lecture: Stephen Broadberry (Oxford) "Growing, Shrinking and Long Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development" 11:00 Student Presentations and Feedback Blessy Abraham: Examination of the role of the Indian Tariff Board in shaping Questions of Fiscal Autonomy in India during the Interwar Period (1921 1937) Yasin Arslantas: Power is tempting but bounded: A Quantitative Analysis of Ottoman Practice of Confiscation, 1750-1839 Cristina Victoria Radu: The effect of maize on economic development. Evidence from Romania 12:30 Concluding remarks 12:45 Lunch End of Summer School