Economic History Society
Annual Conference, Social Studies Building, University of Warwick
3 – 5 April 2009
Conference Papers
Friday 3 April 2009
1400-1530 New Researchers’ Session I (6 parallel sessions)
IA: Eighteenth-Century
Credit, networks and trust in the late-eighteenth century French Atlantic trade
Albane Forestier (
Negotiating work: resistance through absenteeism at Quarry Bank Mill,
Sarah Peers (
The commercialisation of invention and the economy of knowledge: subscription systems and innovation in
Marie Thébaud-Sorger (
IB: The Long Nineteenth Century
(chair: Richard Smith) (SS0.13)
Social statistics and social policy in Hanoverian
Stephen Thompson (
Marital fertility, wealth and inequality in transition era
Neil Cummins (
IC: Poverty 1840-1940
(chair: Bernard Harris) (SS0.18)
Poverty and women’s work in interwar
Jessica Bean (
The relief of the poor in
Christine Seal (
Understanding the role of work in the workhouse: bone-crushing and the negotiation of employment policy in the early years of the New Poor Law
Samantha Shave (
ID: Post-1945 Political Economy
(chair: Jane Humphries) (SS0.19)
‘Someone who instinctively felt and thought as I did:’ the relationship between the Thatcher and Reagan administrations in taxation and monetary policy
James Cooper (
Imperialism in reverse? Fiscal consequences of decolonisation in Kenya and Zambia
Leigh Gardner (
The non-military issues on the
Peter Å vík (
IE: Coal and Railways in the Twentieth Century
(chair: Erik Buyst) (SS0.20)
A geographical explanation of the August 1911 British railway strike
Peter Anderson (
The effect of reparations on the British coal trade
Peter Braddock (
The influence of ‘governmental participation’ on the concentration of coal producing companies in the countries of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), 1952-67
Eline Poelmans (
IF: Financial Centres and Bubbles
(chair: John Turner) (SS0.21)
The railway mania: fundamentals of a bubble
Gareth Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast)
Explaining the City of
Sarah Cochrane (
The evolution of the market microstructure of the world’s first stock exchange: the
Lodewijk Petram (
1600-1730 New Researchers’ Session II (6 parallel sessions)
IIA: Pre-modern
(chair: Knick Harley) (SS0.11)
‘Red herrings and fishy business’: forgery in six medieval English towns
Catherine Casson (
The medieval usury prohibition as a barrier to entry
Mark Koyama (
Apprenticeships in
Susan Walker (
IIB: Commerce and Consumption, 1660-1800
(chair: Adrian Green) (SS0.13)
Commerce, the plant trade and the exchange of botanical knowledge between
Sarah Easterby-Smith (
Provincial selling: retailing and distribution in north-east
Judith Welford (
Consumption and material culture in early modern
Jameson Wooders (
IIC: Growth, agriculture and Trade since 1920
(chair: Paul Brassley) (SS0.18)
Economic growth or stagnation during the interwar period: the performance of British European colonies
Alexander Apostolides (
New thoughts on the failure of the organic food and farming movement in postwar Britain
Erin Gill (
Anglo-Hungarian trade relations and the nationalisation of British interests in Hungary, 1945-56
Gyula Hegedus (
IID: First and Second World Wars
(chair: Peter Howlett) (SS0.19)
The British blockade and the neutral Netherlands, 1914-16
Samuël Kruizinga (
The forgotten front:
Ana Paula Pires (New
Employing the enemy: the contribution of German and Italian POWs to British agriculture during and after the Second World War
Johann Custodis (
IIE: International Business
(chair: Valerio Cerretano) (SS0.20)
Managing technology to achieve industrialisation: the Korean nylon producers in the 1960s-70s
Soojeong Kang (
The Portuguese Marconi Company in the worldwide communications network
Maria Inês Queiroz (New
The Building Society promise: Building Societies and home ownership in England c.1880-1913
Luke Samy (
IIF: Rents, Loans and Cooperatives
(chair: Colin Lewis) (SS0.21)
Office rents in the City of
Steven Devaney (
Killing Raiffeisenism with kindness? Credit cooperatives in
Eóin McLaughlin (NUI, Maynooth)
The Funding Loan: why did the Rothschilds underwrite Brazilian bonds in 1898?
Leonardo Weller (
2030-2130 Plenary Lecture
Nicholas FR Crafts (University of Warwick)
British Relative Economic Decline Revisited
Saturday 4 April 2009
0900-1045 Academic Session I (6 parallel sessions)
IA: Historical Roots of Poverty
(chair: Sue Bowden) (SS0.21)
Politics, public expenditure and the evolution of poverty in Africa, 1920-2007
Sue Bowden (University of York) & Paul Mosley (
Chasing germs in
Alvaro Pereira (
Mineral resource abundance and regional economic growth in
Jordi Domenech (
IB: Long Run Economic Change in
Two hundred years of economic growth in
Daan Marks & Jan Luiten van Zanden (
Railroads and the Raj: the economic impact of transportation infrastructure
David Donaldson (
Evolution of living standards and human capital in
Jörg Baten (
IC: Second Serfdom: Macro Perspectives
(chair: Rick Trainor) (SS0.13)
European yeomanries: a non-immiseration model of agrarian social history 1350-1800
William W Hagen (University of California, Davis)
Russian serfdom in a global history perspective
Alessandro Stanziani (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Inputs and outputs to primary education in Tsarist Russia
Steven Nafziger (Williams College)
ID: Finance
(chair: Paolo di Martino) (SS0.18)
‘Between a rock and a hard place’: British banks and working class customers, 1945-70
Alan Booth (
Spreading the net: distance, shareholding and the geography of risk in
David Green (King’s College London) & Janette Rutterford (Open University)
Stefan O Houpt & Stefano Battilossi (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
IE: International Trade
(chair: Matthias Morys) (SS0.19)
The art of simulation; or, did the
Jean-Pierre Dormois (
Jari Eloranta (Appalachian State University) & Cristina Moreira (Universidade do
Trade booms, trade busts, and trade costs
Christopher Meissner (
IF: Health
(chair: Barry Doyle) (SS0.20)
Analysing long-term trends in sickness and health: further evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society
Martin Gorsky (
Milk, meat, men, women and modernity
Beatrice Moring (
Reassessing the decline of smallpox in later Georgian
Leonard Schwarz (
1115-1300 Academic Session II (6 parallel sessions)
IIA: Women and Academic Careers
(chair: Francesca Carnevali) (SS0.21)
Women and economic history research in
Helen Julia Paul (
The gender pay gap in academia
James Walker, Marina Della Giusta (
Economic history careers and LSE
Janet Hunter (
Jane Humphries (
IIB: Social Networks
(chair: Anne Murphy) (SS0.11)
The role of social networks in the bankruptcies of early modern merchant-financiers
Thomas Max Safley (
The failure of the protectorate excise farms: social network theory and the management of counter-party risk
D’Maris D Coffman (
Financial crises and bankruptcy in early eighteenth-century
Ann M Carlos (
IIC: Second Serfdom: Micro Perspectives
(chair: Steven Nafziger) (SS0.13)
Markus Cerman (
Contract enforcement in Russian serf society
Tracy Dennison (California Institute of Technology)
The effects of manorial institutions on peasant household patterns in late eighteenth-century
Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute)
IID: Macroeconomic History
(chair: Stephen Broadberry) (SS0.18)
Gold, money and prices during the Napoleonic Wars: was Ricardo right?
George Chouliarakis & Paolo Di Martino (
The dynamics of consumption and investment in the late Victorian economy
Nicholas Dimsdale (
Business cycles in
Matthias Morys (
IIE: Labour
(chair: Roman Studer) (SS0.19)
Referral and job performance: evidence from the Ghana Colonial Army
Marcel Fafchamps (
‘The lowest edge of the black-coated class’: the family expenditures of Edwardian railway clerks
Peter Scott & James Walker (
IIF: Empire
(chair: James Foreman-Peck) (SS0.20)
Imperialism reconsidered: using the economic theory of institutions to explain imperial history
Mark Casson, Ken Dark (
Regional economies in the Roman Empire: a case study in the upper Valle
Eric C de Sena (
Europe meets
Judith Spicksley (
1415-1600 Academic Session III (6 parallel sessions)
IIIA: Learning by Doing in the First Financial Crisis
(chair: Ann M Carlos) (SS0.11)
Learning to speculate: the deals of Lord Londonderry, 1717-27
Larry Neal (
Learning to invest: the financial choices of Charles Blunt, 1692-1720
Anne Murphy (
Arbitrage and simple financial market efficiency during the South Sea Bubble: a comparative study of the Royal African and South Sea Companies’ subscription share issues
Gary Shea (
IIIB: Business Networks
(chair: Tim Leunig) (SS0.13)
Inheritance strategies amongst small business families in Liverpool and
Hannah Barker & Mina Ishizu (
The strength and persistence of entrepreneurial cultures in the twentieth century
James Foreman-Peck (
Visual analytics and eighteenth-century business networks: pretty useful?
Sheryllynne Haggerty (
IIIC: Medieval
(chair: Margaret Yates) (SS0.18)
Credit finance in the Middle Ages
Tony K Moore (
Lars Boerner (European University Institute) & Oliver Volckart (
The working year of English day labourers, c. 1300-1830
Jacob L Weisdorf (
IIID: Economic Growth
(chair: Nicholas Dimsdale) (SS0.19)
Gianfranco Di Vaio (
William Pettigrew (
Mr Woodcroft and the value of English patents of invention, 1617-1852
Alessandro Nuvolari (St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa) & Valentina Tartari (
IIIE: Early Modern
(chair: Nigel Goose) (SS0.20)
Women’s transmission of landed property in early-modern
Amanda Capern (
Public economy and private interests: commercial navigation in sixteenth-century
Claire Judde de Larivière (
Karin Dannehl & Nancy Cox (
IIIF: Industry
(chair: Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez) (SS0.21)
The making of the pharmaceutical industry: sunk costs, market size and market structure, 1800-2000
Gerben Bakker (
The English cotton spinning industry, 1770–1840, as revealed in the columns of the
Peter M Solar (Free University
Sunday 5 April 2009
0915-1015 Academic Session IV (5 parallel sessions)
IVA: Government and Markets
(chair: Roger Middleton) (SS0.21)
The market and the lighthouse: public goods in historical perspective
Erik Lindberg (
The economy of obligation: contract ambiguity and the welfare state
Avner Offer (
IVB: Children
(chair: Nigel Goose) (SS0.11)
The quantity and quality of children before the demographic transition: evidence from
Francesco Cinnirella (Ifo Institute for Economic Research), Sascha O Becker (Stirling) & Ludger Woessmann (
'Family strategy' and the changing uses of child labour in
Gloria L Main (
IVC: Agricultural Trade
(chair: Peter Solar) (SS0.18)
Karl Gunnar Persson & Paul Sharp (
Response to technological change: the international wine industry, 1850-1914
James Simpson (Universidad Carlos III,
IVD: Institutions
(chair: Tommy Murphy) (SS0.19)
The political economy of fiscal prudence in historical perspective
Mark Dincecco (IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies)
Land transmission among tenants on noble land – the case of southern Sweden, 1766-1895
Martin Dribe, Mats Olsson & Patrick Svensson (
IVE: Twentieth-Century
European multinationals and European cartels: insights from the rayon industry, 1920-40
Valerio Cerretano (
The Marshall Plan and the European automobile industry, 1945-52
Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez (GERPISA, Université d’Evry-Val d’Essonne)
1045-1145 Academic Session V (6 parallel sessions)
VA: Inequality
(chair: John S Lyons) (SS0.11)
A tale of two cities: gender and health inequality in
David Meredith & Deborah Oxley (
Inter-regional and intra-regional inequality in nineteenth-century
Michael Pammer (
VB: Poverty and Affluence
(chair: Nicola Verdon) (SS0.13)
The end of destitution: poverty among working households in Britain, 1904-38
Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell (
Affluence in the making: the household budget enquiry of 1953-4
Shinobu Majima (
VC: The Ties that Bind
(chair: Karin Dannehl) (SS0.21)
The impact of Common Law developments on the development of the tied-house system: 1890-1915
Mark Wilson (
Why did apprentices quit in early modern
Tim Leunig, Chris Minns & Patrick Wallis (
VD: Postwar
Understanding the ordinary housewife: advertising and consumer research in
Sean Nixon (
The cross-class alliance against earnings-related pensions in
Hugh Pemberton (
VE:Human Capital, Institutions and Growth
(chair: Aashish Velkar) (SS0.19)
From sail to steam and beyond – the skill bias of technological change in the
Darrell Glaser & Ahmed Rahman (
VF: Economics of Investment
(chair: Gary Shea) (SS0.20)
The changing role of dividend policies: an empirical analysis for the
Abe de Jong & Henry van Beusichem (
Brooks A Kaiser (
1145-1300 Tawney Lecture (
Robert C Allen (
Why was the Industrial Revolution British?