Seminars on Modern and Comparative Economic History 2010-11

All seminars are in KSW G1 (20 Kingsway) this term, and commence at 5pm.

13 January

• Launch party for the publication of "How Well do 'Facts' Travel?", the book arising from the Leverhulme Trust-funded grant led by Mary Morgan. It will be held in a different room, so if you would like an invitation and more details, please contact Tracy Keefe (t.j.keefe@lse.ac.uk)

20 January

• Liam Brunt (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
• Title:How broad was the Industrial Revolution? Evidence from a synthetic occupational census of 1801 

27 January

• Katalin Ferber
• Flying Geese In A Cage:  Japanese financial activity in Hungary 1979-1993

3 February 

• Steve Broadberry
• British Economic Growth, 1270-1870

 

10 February

• Leigh Gardner
• Title: 'Who Pays and Who Gains? Building a Tax Base in British Colonial Africa'. 

17 February

• Branko Milanovic (World Bank)
• Title: Pre-Industrial Inequality

24 February

• Dr Asuka Imaizumi, University of Tokyo
• Title:Historical research on industrial distribution in late Meiji Japan
• Chair: Janet Hunter

03 March

• Jacob Weisdorf (Copenhagen)
• The Child Quantity-Quality TradeOff: Evidence from England during the Industrial Revolution
• Chair: tbc

10 March

• Clive Dewey
• Title: The random sample revolution in crop surveys in India 1926-1952: PC Mahalanobis, PV Sukhatme and the first large-scale random sample surveys in the world

17 March

• No seminar