Seminars on Modern and Comparative Economic History 2009-10

All seminars, unless otherwise stated, are held in H102 (Connaught House), and commence at 5pm

Michaelmas Term 2009

15 October

  • William Clarence Smith (SOAS)
  • The 'Battle for Rubber' and the Second World War: The Impact of a Global Conflict on a Commodity Chain, 1931-1945

22 October

  • Price Fishback & Valentina Kachanovskaya (Arizona)
  • In Search of the Fiscal Multiplier for Net Federal Spending in the States during the New Deal: A Preliminary Report

29 October

  • Tim Wright (Sheffield)
  • China and the 1930s Great Depression

5 November

  • Alberto Rinaldi (Modena)
  • The Rise of a District Lead Firm: The Case of Wam (1968-2007)

12 November

  • Osamu Saito (Cambridge and Hitotsubashi)
  • Unveiling Historical Occupational Structures and its Implications for Sectoral Labour Productivity Analysis in Japan's Modern Economic Growth

19 November

  • Kim Oosterlinck (Libe de Bruxelles)
  • The Price of Degenerate Art: A Quantitative Analysis of the Art Market in Occupied France

26 November

  • Sushil Chaudhury (Calcutta (Retd.))
  • Indian Ocean Trade, c.16th-18th Century

3 December

  • Herve Joly (Lyon/CNRS)
  • The Recruitment of French Economic Elites in Historical Perspective

10 December

  • Timo Myllyntaus (Turku)
  • The Last Major Peacetime Famines in Western Europe: 19th Century Ireland and Finland in Comparison 
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