List members with business / economic history leanings will find the
following of interest.
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Subject: EH.News, Weekly Digest #31
[1] ANNOUNCEMENT: ASSA Sessions of interest to economic historians
[2] ANNOUNCEMENT: Business History Conference Meetings March 5 -7.
[3] ANNOUNCEMENT: R.A. and Post-Doc positions available at University of
Minnesota
[4] ANNOUNCEMENT: American Institute For Economic Research; Visiting
Research Fellows
[5] CFP: Call for Papers: Association of Business Historians, London, Sept
2-3.
[6] ANNOUNCEMENT New journal: Enterprise and Society
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[1] ASSA Sessions of interest to economic historians, January 3 - 5, New
York City.
CLIOMETRIC SOCIETY SESSIONS
Sunday, January 3, 10:15 am Hilton Room 510
"Weird Science"
Chair: Samuel H. Williamson, Miami University
Dora Costa, MIT: Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of
Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950
Hajime Hadeishi, Federal Trade Commission: Infant and Child Mortality
in18th Century France: A Function of Income?
Carol Shiue, University of Texas: Market Arbitrage and Transport Routes:
Evidence from18th Century China
Discussants: Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
John Howard Brown, Georgia Southern University
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Sunday, January 3, 2:30 pm Hilton Room 510
"Urban and Regional Aspects of American Economic Development"
Chair: Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina
Sukkoo Kim, Washington U.: Urban Development in the United States, 1690-1990
Robert Margo, Vanderbilt: Geographic Aspects of Labor Market Integration
Before the Civil War
Rebecca Menes, UCLA: Paving Machines: Politics and the Provision of Public
Infrastructure in American Cities during the Progressive Era, 1900-1910
Discussants: Spencer Glendon, Harvard University
Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University
William Hutchinson, Miami University
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Monday, January 4, 8:30-10:30 pm Vintage, 753 9th Avenue (between 50th and
51st)
CLIOMETRIC SOCIETY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS COCKTAIL PARTY
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Tuesday, January 5, 8:00 am Hilton Nassau Suite B
Joint session with AFA
"Market Integration"
Chair: Richard Sylla, New York University
Ann Carlos, Jonathan Hill, and Nathalie Moyen, University of Colorado at
Boulder: Market Integration During the South Sea Bubble: Evidence from the
Royal African Company
William Collins, Vanderbilt University, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard
University: Capital Goods Prices, Global "Capital Markets" and Growth:
1870-1950
James R. Lothian, Fordham University: Movements in Exchange Rates and
Relative Price Levels in the Netherlands and Britain Over the Past Four
Centuries
Discussants: Larry Neal, University of Illinois
Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University
Alan Taylor, Northwestern University
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Tuesday, January 5, 10:15 am Hilton Room 510
"Height and Health"
Chair: Sumner LaCroix, University of Hawaii
Howard Bodenhorn, Lafayette College: Early Achievement of Modern Growth:
Height and Health of Free Black Children in Antebellum Virginia
Philip Coelho, Ball State University, and Robert McGuire, University of
Akron: Growth Before the Civil War: The Antebellum Puzzle of Increasing
Incomes and Decreasing Heights
Ray Rees, John Komlos, University of Munich, Ulrich Woitek, University of
Glasgow, and N.V. Long, University of Montreal: The Puzzle of Slave Heights
in Antebellum America
Discussants: Anthony Patrick O'Brien, Lehigh University
Robert A. Margo, Vanderbilt University
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OTHER ECONOMIC HISTORY SESSIONS OF INTEREST
(Locations in program)
Sunday, January 3, 8:00 am
The Importance of Historical Events in Determining Monetary Trends
Chair and Discussant: Anna Schwartz, National Bureau of Economic Research
Michelle Fratianni, Indiana University, and Francesco Spinelli, University
of Brescia, Italy, "The Determinants of Money Growth in Italy, 1861---1997"
Maria Minniti and Lidija Polutnik, Babson College, "The Three Days Current
Reform of Slovenia"
George Selgin, University of Georgia, "The Suppression of State Notes Issues"
Sunday, January 3, 1999, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m., Hilton Room 524
International Network on Economic Methodology Roundtable Discussion "Is
There an Economic Theory of Economic History?"
Participating Panelists:
Paul David, Stanford and Oxford University
Leonard Dudley, University of Montreal
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
Ulrich Witt, Max-Planck-Institute Jena
Monday, January 4, 2:30 pm, Hilton
Lessons from the Late 19th Century International Economy
Chair: Brad DeLong, UC-Berkeley
Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College: Did Late 19th Century US Tariffs Promote
Infant Industries?
Kevin O'Rourke, University College Dublin: Did Tariffs Augment or Suppress
Growth Before 1914?
Alan Taylor, Northwestern University: International Capital Mobility? Then
and Now
Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard University: Globalization Backlash and Its
Impact on the European Core Before 1929
Discussants: Brad DeLong
Ronald Findlay, Columbia University
Michael Edelstein, Queens College CUNY
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[2] Business History Conference Meetings
The 45th annual meeting of the Business History Conference will be held at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Carolina Inn on
March 5-7, 1999 (Friday morning-Sunday early afternoon). The preliminary
program will follow in a separate message. Registration information and the
preliminary program also can be found on our web site
(http://www.eh.net/bhc/Conference/prog99a.html).
The pre-registration fee is $45. The on-site registration fee will be $55.
The conference banquet Saturday evening is priced separately at $25. As in
the recent past, the registration fee (but not the banquet fee) will be
waived for full-time graduate students who attend the conference and become
members of the Business History Conference (student dues are $7.50 per
year). In order to qualify for the waiver, please return the registration
form (to be found on the web site) with a note attached indicating where
you are a full-time graduate student.
The conference hotel is the Carolina Inn, 211 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill,
NC 27516 (adjacent to the campus). Room rates are $119 for one or two
people (one queen-size bed), or $129 for one or two people (two queen-size
beds) + 6% sales tax per night, plus parking. Reservations should be made
directly with the hotel no later than Feb. 12, 1999. Reservations may be
made by phone (800-962-8519). You must mention the Business History
Conference when making your reservations, which need to be guaranteed with
a credit card number. The hotel's web page will also be linked from the BHC
web page, so you might want to check it out. Several less expensive hotels
are in the area (not walking distance) including: Red Roof Inn, Chapel Hill
(919-489-9421), Holiday Inn, Chapel Hill (919-929-2171), Best Western
University Inn, Chapel Hill (919-932-3000), and Comfort Inn, Durham
(919-933-9522).
Chapel Hill is served by the Raleigh/Durham International Airport. There is
shuttle service for roughly $17 each way. Taxi service (from $22-$28 each
way) is also available.
The Business History Conference is pleased to announce that the Newcomen
Society of the United States has agreed to support graduate student travel
to the conference. This year support will be provided to eligible graduate
students who will be presenting papers. Details will be provided shortly
but students and their advisors should keep this in mind for future
conferences.
Will Hausman
Economics Dept., P.O. Box 8795
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
(757) 221-2381 FAX: (757) 221-2390
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[3] RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS AND POST-DOC POSITIONS AVAILABLE
The Historical Census Projects of the University of Minnesota have several
openings for graduate research assistants and post-doctoral research
associates. We are creating a large database drawn from the U.S. federal
censuses of the period 1850-1990 for the study of long-term social and
economic change. For more information on our database, see
http://www.ipums.umn.edu.
Graduate research Assistants
We are especially interested in recruiting people who want to pursue
graduate studies in history or a related discipline at the University of
Minnesota, and who are interested in using the data in their own research.
We will also consider highly qualified post-doctoral or undergraduate
students. Quantitative and computer skills are a plus. We would appreciate
it if faculty who have qualified undergraduates or MA students would inform
them of these opportunities.
Our positions are ordinarily for twelve months, and are indefinitely
renewable subject to the availability of funds. The stipend for beginning
graduate students is approximately $14,000 per year plus tuition and health
benefits.
Interested prospective students should apply directly to the University of
Minnesota History Department, and should ALSO e-mail Steven Ruggles
<[log in to unmask]>, director of the Historical Census Projects. History
Department application materials are available at
http://www.hist.umn.edu/gradintro.html. Applications are due January 1, but
late applications may be accepted in exceptional circumstances. Students
who want to study in a different department (e.g. sociology or geography)
should contact Ruggles first.
Post-Doctoral Positions
We are also interested in recruiting recent Ph.D.s who are interested in
working on the IPUMS projects. The stipend is $23,100 for a 12 month
appointment. Interested candidates should e-mail Steven Ruggles
<[log in to unmask]>, the director of the Historical Census Projects, and
mail a c.v. and three letters of recommendation to Steven Ruggles,
Department of History, University of Minnesota, 614 Social Sciences
Building, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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[4] AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Visiting Research Fellows
Applications are invited for visiting research fellows to spend the summer
of 1999 at the Institute pursuing their chosen course of research. The
field of research for visiting fellows is open, but we especially welcome
applicants who are interested in money, banking, and credit; public and
personal finance; economic and monetary history; the history of economic
thought; the role of government in society; the methodology of economics;
and the role of individual freedom, private property, and free enterprise
in economic progress. Candidates must have strong writing skills, and the
ideal candidate will be able to communicate research findings to a general
readership. Applicants who have a Ph.D. or have completed all but their
dissertations are preferred, but others with demonstrably strong writing
skills will be considered. Visiting fellows will be housed on the
Institute's campus and receive a cash stipend. Applicants should send cover
letter, a 500-word outline of their proposed course of research, resume,
and a copy of a recent publication or unpublished manuscript. Candidates
must also arrange to have two confidential letters of reference sent
directly to AIER by the referees. Deadline for applications is March 31,
1999 . Representatives will attend the ASSA meeting in New York.
CONTACT: Ms. Susan Gillette, Assistant to the President, American
Institute for Economic Research, P.O. Box 1000, Great Barrington, MA 01230
(Fax 413-528-0103).
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[5] Call for Papers: Association of Business Historians Conference at South
Bank University, London
"Turning Points in Business History"
September 2 - 3, 1999
The bi-annual conference of the Association of Business Historians will be
hosted by the Centre of International Business Studies (CIBS) at South Bank
University, London, on the 2nd and 3rd of September, 1999.
Submissions on any issue of business history will be welcome; however, with
the impending arrival of the next millennium the organisers would be
particularly interested with papers that deal with:
- Business in the twentieth century
- Turning points in business history
The latter theme may be considered as a general point of departure for the
conference as a whole, and speakers on any topic will be invited to relate
the discussion of their paper to this question.
Conference sessions of 90 minutes will feature no more than three papers
each, and ideas for sessions as well as submissions of individual papers
will be welcome.
Proposals should include a brief CV of the authors and must be submitted as
a one-page summary (in hard copy only) by the 30th of January, 1999, to:
Dr. Howard Cox
Centre of International Business Studies
The Business School
South Bank University
103 Borough Road
London
SE1 OAA
UK
tel: + 44 (0) 171 815 7712
Please contact the organisers for any additional information.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Conference site: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~cibs/ass~brit~hist/abh98.html
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[6] New journal: Enterprise and Society
The Business History Conference and Oxford University Press are pleased to
announce a new journal, Enterprise and Society: The International Journal
of Business History, which will present its inaugural issue in Spring 2000.
Enterprise and Society will appear quarterly. Three issues will be fully
refereed, and the fourth will contain proceedings of the annual meeting of
the Business History Conference. The new journal succeeds the BHC's
well-known Business and Economic History.
Enterprise and Society will offer a forum for research on the historical
relations between businesses and their larger political, cultural,
institutional, social, and economic contexts. The journal aims to be truly
international in scope. Studies focused on individual firms and industries
and grounded in a broad historical framework will be welcome, as will
innovative applications of economic or management theories to business and
its context. Quantitative work couched in terms accessible to
non-cliometricians also will be welcome. Enterprise and Society will
actively encourage submission of studies of business that arise from
collateral social scientific and humanities disciplines (for example,
historical sociology, anthropology, political economy, geography, and
theories of economy and societies). In addition to the editor, the journal
will engage Associate Editors for the Americas, Europe, and Asia and
Africa, with a view toward attracting fresh, interesting, and rigorous
research from a variety of national and comparative perspectives.
The editor of Enterprise and Society will be William J. Hausman, Department
of Economics, College of William and Mary, and for the last twelve years
editor of Business and Economic History. There will be four area associate
editors and a review editor. The Associate Editor for Europe is Steven
Tolliday, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Leeds;
the Associate Editor for Asia is Takashi Hikino, Graduate Faculty of
Eocnomics, Kyoto University; the Associate Editors for the Americas are
Sally Clarke, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin, and David
Sicilia, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park.
Enterprise and Society also will publish reviews of books and other media;
Associate Editor for Reviews is Philip Scranton, School of History,
Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, and director of
the Hagley Museum and Library's Center for the History of Business,
Technology, and Society.
BHC members will receive a subscription to Enterprise and Society as part
of their membership privileges upon payment of dues. Non-BHC members and
institutions in the Americas wishing to subscribe should contact: Journals
Marketing, Oxford University Press, 2001 Evans Rd., Cary, NC 27513, USA;
(800-852-7323 or 919-677-0977); FAX: 919-677-1714; Email:
[log in to unmask] Those elsewhere should write to: Journals Marketing,
Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK (44
[0]1865 267907); FAX: 44 (0)1865 267485; Email: [log in to unmask]
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