Max Weber fellows lecture series
Date: Monday 8 March 2010
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Room 2.06, New Academic Building
Speaker: Gergely Baics
Cities, beyond a certain scale, cannot feed themselves. My lecture will outline New York City’s transition from a tightly regulated public market system to a free-market system of food provisioning in the second quarter of the 19th century. In particular, I will address the social consequences of deregulation in the context of rapid urban growth. How did free-market reforms affect the spatial relations of household provisioning, the standard of living of residents, and the underlying structures of social inequality?
Gergely Baics is Max Weber Fellow in History and Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), Florence. Seven Max Weber Fellows from the EUI will visit LSE March 8th - 11th to give a series of talks as part of a joint initiative by APD, Academic and Professional Development division.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information contact Nick Byrne, n.byrne@lse.ac.uk|.
This lecture will be followed by Economic geography and spatial income inequality| at 7pm.
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