29 March 2011
Economic History Society Annual Conference 2011
PRESS BRIEFINGS
For information on other research presented at the annual conference, please contact Romesh Vaitilingam
ECONOMIC GROWTH BOOSTED WHEN IMMIGRATION LEADS TO CULTURAL DIVERSITY:
Evidence from the age of mass migration
‘Cultural Diversity and Economic Growth: Evidence from the US during the Age of Mass Migration’ by Philipp Ager, Universitat Pomepu Fabra and Markus Bruckner, Adelaide University.
POLICY RESPONSES TO THE GLOBAL CRISIS:
Lessons from the 1907 and 1930s crises – and the new challanges
‘Major crises: historical comparisons to the Great Depression and the classical Gold Standard’, by Ronald Albers and Lars Jonung
TECHNOLOGY DRIVES THE ‘GREAT DIVERGENCE’ BETWEEN RICH AND POOR COUNTRIES
‘Technology and the Great Divergence’, by Professor Robert C. Allen, Nuffield College, Oxford.
Website: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/General/Members/allen.aspx
NO COMPOSER IS AN ISLAND:
Big productivity benefits from classical musicians being located close together
'Geographic clustering and productivity: an instrumental variable approach for classical composers’, by Karol Jan Borowiecki, Trinity College Dublin.
Web: http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/borowiek/
‘BIG SOCIETY’ VOLUNTEERING:
Nothing new in government programme for young people
‘The "big society" and the National Citizen Service: young people volunteering and engagement with charities in the 20th century’,
by Dr Kate Bradley, University of Kent.
THE ROAD TO ECONOMIC CRISIS:
History shows the dangers of unanimity of opinion
‘Entrepreneurial failure and economic crisis: an historical perspective’, by Professor Mark Casson, University of Reading.
ENGLAND’S MASS ENTHUSIASM FOR GARDENING DATES BACK TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
'The urban back garden in England in the long nineteenth century', by Zoë Crisp, University of Cambridge.
RAILWAY STATIONS AND THE GROWTH OF ENGLISH TOWNS
‘A GIS analysis of the evolution of the railway network and population densities in England and Wales (1851-2000)’, by Dr Marta Felis-Rota, Universidad Autonomia Madrid.
HOW BALL BEARINGS COULD HAVE CHANGED THE COURSE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
'Did Swedish ball bearings keep the Second World War going? Re-evaluating neutral Sweden’s role', by Eric B. Golson, London School of Economics.
DIFFERENT DEATH RATES OF MEN AND WOMEN IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
‘Sex differentials in mortality in nineteenth-century England and Wales’, by Dr Andrew Hinde, University of Southampton.
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION:
Lessons for today from the pre-1914 mass migration to the United States
‘Economic Recessions, Travel Costs and the Business of Migration Across the North Atlantic, 1870-1914’, by Drew Keeling, University of Zurich.
CHARITIES ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE STATE:
Evidence from the United States on the limits of voluntarism
Charities No Substitute for the State: Nonprofits and the Politics of Contracting in the US, 1965-1975’, by Andrew Morris, Union College.
The study draws on the recent book, The Limits of Voluntarism: Charity and Welfare from the New Deal Through the Great Society by Andrew Morris (Cambridge, 2009)
WORK/LIFE BALANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CITY OF LONDON:
When the clock started to dominate the working day
‘Time and work at the Bank of England, by Dr Anne L. Murphy, University of Hertfordshire.
THE CHAMPAGNE FAIRS OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE:
Lessons for development in today’s poor economies
‘What Lessons for Economic Development Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?’ by Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie, University of Cambridge
THE ROLE OF BIG BUSINESS IN THE RISE OF THATCHERISM
‘Business and the rise of neoliberalism in post-war Britain’, by Professor Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow.
SEEING THE ECONOMY AS THE POLITICIANS TELL US WE SHOULD:
How the current economic debate echoes Britain’s experiences in the 1970s
‘Popular understanding of the economy: British government and inflation in the 1970s’, by Jim Tomlinson, Bonar Professor of Modern History, University of Dundee.
POST-PFIZER PROSPECTS FOR UK PHARMACEUTICALS: lessons from Japan’s underperformance
‘Re-examining Japan’s underperformance in pharmaceuticals, 1945-2005’, by Maki Umemura, Cardiff University.
Web: www.makiumemura.com
AN EFFICIENT TAX SYSTEM LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
'Debt, default and empire: state capacity and economic development in England and Spain in the early modern period', by Professor Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
‘FROM STATE POWER TO PEOPLE POWER’:
Evidence of systemic failure the last time the government promoted the ‘Big Society’
‘Mutual aid and the state’, by Dr Daniel Weinbren, The Open University.
