Economic History Society Annual Conference
Gilbert Murray Conference Centre, Oadby Halls
University of Leicester
8-10 April 2005
Conference Abstracts and Papers
Friday 8 April 2005
New Researchers’ Session I (4 parallel sessions)
IA: Trade: Theory and Practice
The free-trade paradox of mercantilism
Elsa Pouget-Pomar (University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail)
The role of Spanish and foreign merchants in the colonial trade with Peru, 1740-83
Xabier Lamikiz (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Endogenising technological innovation: transatlantic trade and the generation and diffusion of textile technology in 18th century Lancashire and Yorkshire
Peter Maw (University of Manchester)
Formal contracts and the art of negotiation in 18th century maritime West Asia
Gagan Sood (Yale University)
IB: Health and Income
The impact of improved health upon standards of living in 20th century England
Kerry-Jane Hickson (London School of Economics)
All in the family: A dynasty approach to household migration: evidence from the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire
Alexander Klein (Cerge-EI, Prague)
Women’s wages and earnings inequality during industrialisation
Natalia Mora-Sitjà (Nuffield College, Oxford)
The myth of a more humane French path of industrialisation: measuring the biological standard of living in Mulhouse and the Alsatian countryside, 1780-1920
Laurent Heyberger (University of Belfort-Montbeliard)
IC: Political and Consumer Pressures in Modern Britain
Winning the local vote: the changing geographies of constituency campaigning in late 19th century British General Elections
Matthew Badcock (University of Central England)
The British Co-operative Movement as a consumer pressure group, 1914-45
Nicole Robertson (University of Nottingham)
Where backbenchers play: Parliamentary Oversight of the Supply Committee during the first Labour government, 1924
Raymond Westphal (University of Oslo)
ID: Music and Economics
American Popular music and its influence on Britain during the inter-war years: the intermingling of class, economy and jazz
Johannah Duffy (University College, Dublin)
State formation and composition rates
Siobhan McAndrew (Nuffield College, Oxford)
New Researchers’ Session II (4 parallel sessions)
IIA: Measuring Change
Understanding the human capital of North India for the 19th and 20th centuries using the ‘Age Heaping’ measure
Aravinda Guntupalli (University of Tuebingen)
Peasants and settlers in Africa: structural and institutional change in Ghana and Zimbabwe from c.1890 to c.2000
Dede Amanor-Wilks (London School of Economics) Paper
Historical GDP estimates of Singapore, 1900-39 and 1950-60: progress and perspectives
Ichiro Sugimoto (University of Malaya)
Comparative measurement of social capital in the 19th and 20th centuries
Marta Felis-Rota (London School of Economics)
IIB: Money and Markets
How well did the Stock Market treat industry? Evidence from initial public offerings on the London Stock Exchange over the 20th century
David Chambers (London School of Economics)
How did Austria-Hungary conduct monetary policy?
Matthias Morys (London School of Economics)
Enemies, competitors and allies: the economic relationship between Amsterdam and Lisbon, 1640-1705
Catia Antunes (University of Leiden)
IIC: Landholding and Property Rights: the significance of local studies
Stability and equality in the peasant society of a southeast Midlands manor, 1279-1610
Matt Tompkins (University of Leicester)
Coercion power, property rights and capital: construction of watermills in Ponthieu, France during the 11th-12th centuries
Karine Gabay (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Functions and fortunes: the importance of county towns in the East Midlands, 1700-1830
Claire Townsend (University of Leicester)
IID: Analysis of Decision Making
Trading options before Black-Scholes: a study of the market in late 17th century London
Anne Murphy (University of Leicester)
Improving credibility by delegating judicial competence: the case of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Michael Ebeling (University of Kassel)
Saturday 9 April 2005
Academic Session I (6 parallel sessions)
IA: Money and Banking
The ‘Farrer-Wright’ group and the genesis of London-based imperial banking, 1824-65
Philip L Cottrell (University of Leicester) Abstract Paper
New estimates of Australasian Public Debt issued in London, 1855-1914
Bernard Attard (University of Leicester) Abstract Paper
Trade and Empire (1870-1914)
Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University) & Marc Weidenmier (Claremont-McKenna College) Abstract Paper
The high cost of debt: very-high-denomination Treasury Notes and US Treasury Debt Management, 1955-69
Franklin Noll (Consultant to the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing) Abstract Paper
New evidence on short time working in Britain, c.1926-38
Christopher Price (University of York) Abstract Paper
Did industry fail the City? Debt, company finance, and financial institutions: a case study of the engineering/vehicle industries
Huw Dixon & Steve Toms (University of York) Abstract Paper
Continuity and change? The operation of capital and labour markets: a comparison of the late 19th century and the interwar years
Sue Bowden & Dave Higgins (University of York) Abstract Paper
IC: Making Economic Policy
Economic policy and crisis in Brazil: the second Vargas Administration (1951-54) and the Goulart Administration (1961-64)
Pedro Fonseca & Sérgio Monteiro (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Abstract Paper
Tale of a death exaggerated: how Keynesian policies survived the 1970s
Jim Tomlinson (University of Dundee) Abstract Paper
Surviving under the shelter of government subsidies or ‘avoiding disaster’? New evidence from Italian Industrial Districts, 1971-91
Anna Spadavecchia (University of Reading) Abstract Paper
The winning hare? Structural change and productivity performance in Ireland and Portugal, 1979-2003
Pedro Lains (University of Lisbon) Abstract Paper
ID: Economic Geography: Routes, Regions, and Boundaries
Do frontiers give or do frontiers take? The case of intercontinental trade in France at the end of the Ancien Régime
Guillaume Daudin (OFCE) Abstract Paper
Farewell to the peasant republic: industrialisation and the economic transformation of mountain regions in Western Europe, 1815-1930
Fernando Collantes (University of Zaragoza) Abstract Paper
The evolution of the British railway network, 1825-1914: the effects of inter-company rivalry on the geography of the network
Mark Casson (University of Reading) Abstract Paper
IE: Under Tyranny
Inequality within a minority: Jewish wealth in Vienna, 1938
Michael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University) Abstract Paper
Market microstructure and Nazi influence on the Paris stock exchange during World War II
Kim Oosterlinck (Free University of Brussels) Abstract Paper
The importance of private economic activities during late Stalinism
Olaf Mertelsmann (University of Tartu, Estonia) Abstract Paper
IF: Relational Business
Financial knowledge and the emergence of a private clientele for banks: Hoare’s Bank and some early women customers
Anne Laurence (Open University) Abstract Paper
Social ordering or social interaction in early modern England?
Dave Postles (University of Leicester) Abstract Paper
Academic Session II (6 parallel sessions)
IIA: Productivity and Growth
South Sea Company subscription shares and warrant values in 1720
Gary S Shea (University of St Andrews) Abstract Paper
Industrial production and industrial productivity in the German Empire
Carsten Burhop (University of Münster) Abstract Paper
Predictability of future economic growth and the credibility of different monetary regimes in Germany, 1870-2003
Markus Baltzer (University of Tuebingen) & Gerhard Kling (Utrecht School of Economics) Abstract Paper
Technological breakthroughs and productivity growth
Harald Edquist & Magnus Henrekson (Stockholm School of Economics) Abstract Paper
IIB: Business Governance
Marine insurance in Britain and America, 1720-1824
Christopher Kingston (Amherst College) Abstract Paper
Transparency and accountability in the governance of British stock companies, 1740-1845
Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson & James Taylor (University of Hull) Abstract Paper
Debt discharge and entrepreneurship in England, c.1880-1939
Paolo di Martino (University of Manchester) & R Gomez (London School of Economics) Abstract Paper
Corporate governance and personal capitalism: case studies in British manufacturing in the first half of the 20th century
Roger Lloyd-Jones et al (Sheffield Hallam University) & Josephine Maltby (University of Sheffield) Abstract Paper
IIC: Early Modern Cotton (convenor & chair: Patrick O’Brien)
Ottoman textiles: a success story that did not end so well
Suraiya Faroqhi (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich) Abstract Paper
Cotton textile exports from the Indian subcontinent, 1680-1780
Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College) Abstract Paper
Empire, ecology and economy: cotton in 18th century Europe
Giorgio Riello (London School of Economics) Abstract Paper
IID: Occupational Change (convenors: Leigh Shaw-Taylor & Tony Wrigley)
English county populations in the later 18th century
Tony Wrigley (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
An industrialising region: the West Riding of Yorkshire, c.1740-1891
Amanda Jones (University of York) Abstract Paper
The occupational structure of Northumberland, 1762-1891
Peter Kitson (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
The occupational structure of London c.1670-1891
Leigh Shaw-Taylor (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
IIE: Health and Welfare
Poverty, poor relief and philanthropy in early modern Colchester: the unacceptable face of mercantilism?
Nigel Goose (University of Hertfordshire) Abstract Paper
Life-cycle vulnerability: pauper life histories in 18th and 19th century Westminster
Leonard Schwarz (University of Birmingham) & Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle) Abstract Paper
From Friendly Society to Compulsory Medical Aid Association: the history of medical aid provision in South Africa in the public sector, 1905-70
Grietjie Verhoef (Rand Afrikaans University) Abstract Paper
IIF: Crises in the Countryside
Comparing tithe and manorial demesne grain output before and after the Black Death in southern England
Neil Rushton (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
The Black Death in perspective: grain production in the Northeast, 1250-1348
Ben Dodds (University of Durham) Abstract Paper
Famine as agricultural catastrophe: the crisis of 1622-3 on the Walmsley estates in Lancashire
Richard Hoyle (University of Reading) Abstract Paper
Academic Session III (5 parallel sessions)
IIIA: Trade
‘You sacrificed me’: an inter-disciplinary approach to Liverpool’s business culture in the 18th century Atlantic
Sheryllynne Haggerty (University of Liverpool) Abstract Paper
British business networks and colonial economic policy in India, 1830-48
Anthony Webster (Edge Hill College) Abstract Paper
Geographical effects on the accuracy of textile trade data: an international approach for 1913
Anna Carreras Marín (University Pompeu Fabra) Abstract Paper
IIIB: Retailing Revolutions
Retail change and the urban renaissance: recasting the shopping hierarchy
Andrew Hann (University of Leicester) Abstract Paper
The spread of department stores in provincial England, c.1872-1932
Jon Stobart (Coventry University) Abstract Paper
Knowledge and the transfer of the supermarket from North America to Britain, 1950-70
Andrew Alexander (University of Surrey) & Gareth Shaw (University of Exeter) Abstract Paper
British multiple retailing during the Golden Age, 1976-94: a quantitative approach
Carlo Morelli (University of Dundee) Abstract Paper
IIIC: Immigration
Why so few migrants from so many places and so many from only a few places? Cornish migration flows to the Americas in the 19th century
Bernard Deacon & Sharron P Schwartz (University of Exeter, Cornwall) Abstract Paper
Self-selection, location and entrepreneurship: British self-employment in North America in the early 20th century
Chris Minns & Marian Rizov (Trinity College Dublin) Abstract Paper
Italian migrant lives in the Western Australian goldfields before World War II
Patrick Bertola, Criena Fitzgerald and Pamela Sharpe (Curtin University & University of Western Australia) Abstract Paper
IIID: Early Modern Consumption
City and Court: patterns of consumption in 16th century London
Ian Archer (University of Oxford) Abstract Paper
The diet of the labouring poor in England, 1550-1750
Craig Muldrew (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
The politics of tobacco consumption in 17th century England
Philip Withington (University of Aberdeen) Abstract Paper
IIIE: Latin American Development
The construction of railroads in Argentina in the late 19th century: the major role of the English companies
Maria Heloisa Lenz (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) Abstract Paper
Capital goods imports and investment in Latin America, 1913 and 1925
Xavier Tafunell & Albert Carreras (University Pompeu Fabra) Abstract Paper
The apparent consumption of fossil energy as an indicator of modernisation in Latin America by 1925: a proposal using foreign trade statistics
Mar Rubio (University Pompeu Fabra) & Mauricio Folchi (University of Chile) Abstract Paper
Sunday 10 April 2005
Academic Session IV (6 parallel sessions)
IVA: Technology and Growth
‘The ingenious crowd': a critical prosopography of British Inventors, 1650-1850
Christine MacLeod (University of Bristol) & Alessandro Nuvolari (Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies) Abstract Paper
International cartels and technology transfer, 1890-1948
Valerio Cerretano (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
Cartel stability in the electric industry: the case of electricity distribution in Madrid in the interwar period
Anna M Aubanell-Jubany (University Pompeu Fabra) Abstract Paper
IVB: Rural Poor Relief
Sources of welfare support in early modern Württemberg, c.1500-1700
Paul Warde (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
The agrarian origins of early modern poor relief: English-French comparisons
Richard Smith (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
Poor relief in rural Russia: evidence from Yaroslavl Province, 1750-1860
Tracy Dennison (University of Cambridge) Abstract Paper
IVC: Employment and Labour
Apprenticeship, training and guilds in pre-industrial Europe
Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics) Abstract Paper
Income risk and the English farm labourer, c.1750-1850
David R Stead (University of York) Abstract Paper
Adjusting to economic downturns in the Catalan textile sector, 1880-1913
Jordi Domenech (London School of Economics) Abstract Paper
Real wages and unemployment in Weimar Germany
Nicholas Dimsdale (University of Oxford), Nicholas Horsewood (University of Birmingham) & Arthur Van Riel (Utrecht University) Abstract Paper
IVD: Modern Consumption
The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940
Gerben Bakker (University of Essex) Abstract Paper
The creation of the British Council of Industrial Design: re-investing design with hope
Lesley Whitworth (University of Brighton) Abstract Paper
Israeli housewives in the 1950s and the Austerity policy
Orit Rozin (University of Tel-Aviv) Abstract Paper
‘Like rabbits in the headlights’: Britain’s mail order retailers and the home shopping revolution
Richard Coopey (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) & Dil Porter (De Montfort University) Abstract Paper
IVE: Women and Family Economics (chair: )
Women, accounts and numeracy in 17th century England
Judith Spicksley (University of Hull) Abstract Paper
The management of household and estate: the accounts of Alice le Strange, 1610-1654
Elizabeth Griffiths & Jane Whittle (University of Exeter) Abstract Paper
Women and the business of farming: the role of farmers’ widows in England, 1750-1850
Nicola Verdon (University of Reading) Abstract Paper
Sons and mothers: family relations and sources of family income in early industrial Britain
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford) Abstract Paper
IVF: The Great Divergence
Cotton textiles and the great divergence: Lancashire, India and shifting comparative advantage, 1600-1850
Stephen Broadberry & Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick) Abstract Paper
Triple engines of growth: why Europe and not Asia?
Alvaro S Pereira (University of York) Abstract Paper
Industrial revolutions and consumption: a common model to the various periods of industrialisation
David Flacher (Paris XIII University) Abstract Paper
Tawney Lecture
Professor Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley)
Sterling's Past, Dollar's Future? Historical Perspectives on the Dollar's International Currency Role
