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Ce colloque aura lieu au Royal Holloway College, University of LondonFriday 2 April 2004 0915-1045                Meeting of Economic History Society Publications Committee 1100-1400                      Meeting of Economic History Society Council 1200-1800                Registration  1400-1530                      New Researchers’ Session I (5 parallel sessions)IA:           Tax, Government Debt, Economic Thought and National Income AccountingThe English origins of American Civil War taxationJane Flaherty (Texas A&#38;M University)Dealing with uncertainty: the management of investment in the early English national debtAnne Murphy (University of Leicester)Dugald Stewart, physiocracy and the productivity debateMatthew Wright (University of Bristol)The retrospective accounts crusadeCristel de Rouvray (London School of Economics) IB:           Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century CommercialismEnclosure and agricultural development in ScotlandCatherine Douglas (Nuffield College, Oxford)The South Sea Company’s slaving activitiesHelen Paul (University of St. Andrews)Law, ‘terror’ and the Frame-Breaking ActKarly Walters (University of Birmingham)Evolution of an of early colonial policy towards inland commerce and market in late 18th century BengalUjjaya Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta) IC:           Issues in British Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Social HistoryThe distribution of female Friendly Societies across England, 1793-1875Nicola Reader (University of Leeds)The parochial (mis)management of bastardy: Chelmsford, Essex, c.1814-34Thomas Nutt (University of Cambridge)The cost of keeping quiet: were patients’ secrets up for auction in the historical medical marketplace?Angus Ferguson (University of Glasgow)Lady Astor and ladies of the night: the politics and gender dynamics of the Street Offences Committee, 1928Stef Slater (Royal Holloway College) ID:          Commerce and Industry Before 1918The British optical munitions industry before the Great WarStephen Sambrook (University of Glasgow)Economic warfare during the Great War: a case study of the Hungarian home frontMoni Riez (University of Calgary)Disclosure of mergers without regulatory restrictions: comparing insider-trading in the years 1908 and 2000 in GermanyGerhard Kling (University of Tuebingen)The business network of John Taylor &#38; Sons, 1884-1910Simon Mollan (University of Durham) IE:           Social Policy in the Developing World after 1945Educational disparity in Pakistan, 1947-71M Niaz Asadullah (St. Antony’s, Oxford)How effective are religious ideals in serving their economic goals? The case of Zakat (a religious tax) in Pakistan, 1980-95Arshi Khan (London School of Economics)Industrial demographics and productivity growth: the case of Indonesian manufacturing, 1975-95Virginie Vial (London School of Economics)Policy gaps in developing countries: the case of old age pensions in Argentina, 1970-2000Camila Arza (London School of Economics) 1530-1600                      Tea 1600-1730                New Researchers’ Session II (5 parallel sessions)IIA:        The Medieval WorldChanges in the manor court before the Black DeathErin McGibbon (University of Cambridge)Stratification and division in the late medieval village communityJennifer Phillips (University of Cambridge)The economic decline of Circassian Mamluks in EgyptWan Kamal Mujani IIB:        Reality in RetailProductive shopping: the social discourse around shopping in early modern England , c.1660-1800Claire Walsh (University of Warwick)Music and the commodification of sound: advertising acoustics in France, 1800-30Ingrid Sykes (University of Warwick)The ‘real’ retailing revolution: the impact of self-service methods on food retailing in postwar BritainBridget WilliamsContainment via 'edutainment': the British advertising industry’s reaction to the rise of consumer movements in the US and the UK, 1930-60Stefan Schwarzkopf (Birkbeck College, London) IIC:        Currencies and Investment in Historical PerspectiveHow to make money during the South Sea bubble of 1720 – and how to lose it. The case of the Republic of BerneStefan Altorfer (London School of Economics)Why do investors still hope? The Soviet repudiation puzzle (1918-19)Kim Oosterlinck (Free University of Brussels)The endogeneity of optimum currency area criteria in historical perspective: some lessons for European Monetary UnionFrançois QuiriciBridging the generational divide: currency crisis in theory and historyConor Healy &#38; Klaus Veigel (Princeton University) IID:       European Social HistoryNineteenth century Greek port towns: history, historiography and comparisonsSakis Gekas (London School of Economics)Histories, stories and memories: narrating Polish pasts in BritainKathy Burrell (De Montfort University)The relationship between the Labour Party and the City, 1971-2001Kerry McCarthy (Goldsmiths' College, London) IIE:       British Business and Industry after 1945Evaluating ‘new trade protectionism’ in the UK car marketJames Walker (London School of Economics)Decartelisation and deconcentration policy: the postwar threat to Unilever’s multinational interests, 1945-50Ben Wubs (Erasmus University)‘Visible’ and ‘invisible’ hands: governing the industrial fire service in Britain, 1950-75Shane Ewen (University of Leicester)The renaissance of corporate paternalism: the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation in the Gold Coast, 1945-46Stephanie Decker (University of Liverpool) 1730-1830                      Open meeting for women in economic history1815-1900                      Council reception for new researchers and first-time delegates1830-1900                      Meeting of delegates from ‘new’ universities1830-1900                Meeting of Conference Committee 1900-2015                      Dinner 2030-2130                      Plenary Lecture: Professor Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway College)Ages and Stages in History Late bar available Saturday 3 April 2004 0800-0900                Breakfast (provided in halls of residence) 0900-1045                Academic Session I (6 parallel sessions)IA:     The Bank of England before 1914 (chair: Larry Neal)Did the Bank of England increase the cost of a British Government default in the 18th century?Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University)How English banks learned prudence, 1820-80Forrest Capie (City University Business School)How Bagehot’s Rule evolved in the Bank of England from 1834-1914Larry Neal (University of Illinois) &#38; Marc Weidenmier (Claremont-McKenna College) IB:     Family Relations (chair: Pat Hudson)Usury legislation, inheritance and credit in late Tudor and Stuart LincolnshireJudith Spicksley (University of Hull) Amanda Capern (University of Hull)Economic transactions and family relations: an English case study c.1680-1750Pam Sharpe (University of Western Australia)‘That nasty South Sea affair’: the Hastings sisters, Mrs Bonnell and the rage to speculateAnne Laurence (The Open University) IC:     Agriculture and Labour (chair: Rick Trainor)The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: a biological analysisRobert C Allen (Nuffield College, Oxford)Hester Temple and ‘the transactional family’Jason Long (Colby College, Maine)Far from extinct: farm service and the agricultural labour force in England and Wales, c.1800-1945Alun Howkins (University of Sussex) &#38; Nicola Verdon (University of Reading) ID:     Health and Growth (chair: Richard Smith)Health and wealth accumulation of Union Army veterans, 1860-70Chulhee Lee (Seoul National University)Mexican fertility transition in the American mirrorSusan Carter &#38; Richard Sutch (University of California, Riverside)Improvements in the standard of living through cycles of political violence: Colombia, 1910-84Adolfo Meisel &#38; Margarita Vega (Central Bank of Colombia)Health and sickness in the late 19th and 20th centuries: a local studyBernard Harris (University of Southampton) &#38; Martin Gorsky (School of Hygiene &#38; Trop. Med.) IE:    Imperfect Competition (chair: Catherine Schenk)A corner solution: commodity futures, default fines and unintended consequences [19th century]Wojtek Sikorzewski (University of Caen)Passenger shipping cartels and their effect on trans-Atlantic migration in the early 20th centuryRichard Sicotte (University of Vermont) George Deltas (University of Illinois) &#38; Peter Tomczak (University of Michigan)Rent seeking and collusion in the military allocation decisions of Finland, Sweden and the UK, 1920-38Jari Eloranta (University of Warwick) IF:        Art and Commerce (chair: TBA)Finance through art [17th-20th centuries]Raphael Markellos &#38; Vanya Kitsopoulou (Athens University of Economics &#38; Business)Patents into copyrights: cartels and collusion in the early film industry, 1890-1949Gerben Bakker (University of Essex) 1045-1115                      Coffee 1115-1300                Academic Session II (6 parallel sessions)IIA:     Monetary Issues (chair: Francesca Carnevali)Exchange rate behaviour and exchange rate puzzles; why the 18th century might helpRafael Torres, JG Biscarri &#38; F Pérez de Gracia (University of Navarra)Macroeconomic aspects of independence in Spanish America: the effects of fiscal and monetary fragmentation, 1800s-1860sMaria Alejandra Irigoin (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)How much does Original Sin matter? Currency movements and borrowing costs, 1870-1913Chris Meissner (University of Cambridge), Michael Bordo (Rutgers) &#38; Marc Weidenmier (Claremont McKenna) IIB:     Modern Consumption (convenor: Laura Ugolini) (chair: Frank Trentmann)'Something for nothing': chewing gum, war and mass consumption [20th century]Michael Redclift (King’s College London)Civvies: civilian men and consumption in Britain, 1914-18Laura Ugolini (University of Wolverhampton)Selling suburbia to the working-classes in 1930s BritainPeter Scott (University of Reading) IIC:     Technological Choice (chair: Nick Crafts)The diffusion of the steam engine in 18th century BritainAlessandro Nuvolari, Bart Verspagen (Eindhoven University of Technology) &#38; Nick von Tunzelmann (University of Sussex)Clusters, externalities and innovation: new evidence from German firms, 1878-1913Anna Spadavecchia (University of Reading) &#38; Joerg Baten (University of Tuebingen and CESifo)Sherman versus Cromwell: supplying the British army’s tanks for the invasion of Europe 1944John Buckley (University of Wolverhampton) IID:     Bastardy (chair: Thomas Nutt)The childwyte fine in rural East Anglia c.1260-1348: index of servility or povertyRichard Smith (University of Cambridge)The mortality penalty of illegitimate children: foundlings and poor children in 18th century EnglandAlysa Levene (University of Bath)Famine, illegitimacy and the workhouse in the west of Ireland: Kilrush, Co. Clare 1830-80Liam Kennedy &#38; Paul Gray (Queen’s University Belfast) IIE:     Social Dilemmas (chair: Avner Offer)The Median Voter Theorem in ancient AthensEugene Kontorovich (George Mason University)Morality and exchange in the Athenian DemocracyGabriel Herman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)The economics of feuding in late Medieval GermanyOliver Volckart (London School of Economics) IIF:     Policy and Statistics (chair: Roger Middleton)Western governments, the Marshall Plan and the adoption of national income statistics after World War IITill Geiger (University of Manchester)Managing the economy, managing the people: the statistical aspect [20th century]Jim Tomlinson (Brunel University)Learning and change in 20th century British economic policyHugh Pemberton (LSE) &#38; Michael Oliver (Bates College, Maine) 1300-1400                      Lunch Field trips (optional)1: 1330-1730                Guided Walking Tour of Windsor and Eton*2. 1415-1530                Guided Tour of Founder’s Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway College3. 1600-1715                Guided Tour of Founder’s Picture Gallery, Royal Holloway College*(Lunch should be taken in the dining room at 1300 prior to departure on the Guided Walking Tour of Windsor and Eton.) 1415-1545                      Meeting of Schools and Colleges Committee 1415-1600                Academic Session III (6 parallel sessions)IIIA:    Technology and Growth (chair: Stephen Broadberry)How and when did Germany catch up to Great Britain and the US? Results from a revised estimate, 1870-1960Albrecht Ritschl (Humboldt University of Berlin)Electrifying and digitalising the Finnish manufacturing industry: historical notes on diffusion and productivity [20th century]Jukka Jalava (Helsinki School of Economics)Endowments, market potential and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland, 1918-39Nikolaus Wolf (London School of Economics)Comparing electricity and ICT: not so enlightening?Ronald Albers (European Commission) IIIB:     Production and Consumption in the Industrial Revolution (chair: TBA)The production and consumption of iron in early modern England, 1530-1790Peter King (University of Wolverhampton)Patterns of textile consumption in pre-industrial Spain: Castile, 1750-1850Fernando Ramos (Harvard University)Productivity and household economy in a Tyneside mining community, 1770-1850Peter Kirby (Manchester) IIIC:     Banks Through the Ages (chair: Larry Neal)Florentine bankers and Papal finances in the first half of the 16th centuryFrancesco Guidi Bruscoli (Queen Mary, University of London)Limited liability, ownership and control: Irish banking before World War IJohn Turner &#38; Graeme Acheson (Queen’s University Belfast)White-collar labour markets, 1890-1914: evidence from the banking industryAndrew Seltzer (Royal Holloway College)  IIID:     Risk management (chair: TBA)Managing portfolio risk pre-World War IJanette Rutterford (The Open University)Can raw material supply risks determine technological choices? Evidence from the British cotton spinning industry, c.1900Tim Leunig (London School of Economics) IIIE:     Institutional Choice (chair TBA)Path dependence in institutions: the English Poor Laws, 1550-1850Douglas Puffert (University of Warwick)Institutional innovation and infrastructure investment: an evaluation of the turnpike system in 18th century EnglandDan Bogart (University of California, Irvine)Costs and efficiency in the nationalised British Gas industry, 1950-65Andrew Jenkins (Institute of Education, University of London) IIIF:     Sterling Under Stress (convenor: Michael Oliver) (chair: Ranald Michie)Sterling and the exchange rate policies in the 1950sPeter Burnham (University of Warwick)The Empire Strikes Back: the Sterling Area and the decline of Sterling, 1965-73Catherine Schenk (University of Glasgow)Downhill from devaluation: the battle for Sterling, 1967-72Arran Hamilton (University of Warwick) &#38; Michael Oliver (Bates College, Maine) 1600-1630                Tea 1730-1830                      Annual General Meeting of the Economic History Society 1930-2000                      Conference Reception 2000                        Conference Dinner Late bar available Sunday 4 April 2004 0800-0900                Breakfast (provided in halls of residence) 0915-1115                 Academic Session IV (6 parallel sessions)IVA     Banking and Growth (chair: Duncan Ross)Did banks cause the German industrialisation?Carsten Burhop (University of Münster)Did governance fail interwar universal banking?: Lessons from moral hazard and conflicts of interest in Italy, 1914-33Stefano Battilossi (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)An alternative rationale for the introduction of bank-centred economic systems in Germany and Japan and a re-evaluation of their efficacyRichard Werner (Sophia University, Tokyo) IVB:    Ancient World (chair: Margaret Yates)Population and economy in Roman Italy; some theoretical perspectivesNeville Morley (University of Bristol)The demography of Roman Egypt: mission impossible?Dominic Rathbone (King’s College London)Land as currency in Anglo-Saxon EnglandJennifer Brown (Wright State University) IVC:     Asian Growth (chair: TBA)A model of immigration to Southeast Asia, 1880-1939Gregg Huff (University of Glasgow) &#38; Ulrich Woitek (University of Munich)Paths of growth: economic growth in East Asia and peripheral Europe, 1960-2000Luciano Amaral (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)Were all colonial states predatory? Some evidence from Southeast AsiaAnne Booth (SOAS) IVD:   Occupational Change during the Industrial Revolution                (convenors: Leigh Shaw-Taylor &#38; Tony Wrigley; chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor)What do occupational descriptors really tell us? Evidence from 18th century NorthamptonshireLeigh Shaw-Taylor (University of Cambridge)Male occupational change in Hertfordshire, 1759-1851: an example of relative occupational stabilityViktoria Masten (University of Cambridge)Male occupational structure in Northamptonshire, 1762-1851: a case of partial de-industrialisationAmanda Jones (University of Cambridge)Occupational change in the early 19th centuryTony Wrigley (University of Cambridge)                                 IVE:   Political Risk (chair: TBA)British business, the third Reich and the assessment of ‘political risk’Neil Forbes (Coventry University)Transition from market to command economy in one year: the case of Estonia, 1940-41Olaf Mertelsmann (University of Tartu)Expropriation and restitution: dealing with the Nazi heritage in post-World War II AustriaMichael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University)                                 IVF:     Gender Identity (convenor/chair: Nicola Verdon)In search of the ‘wild’ outdoors: northern moorlands and manly identity, 1880s-1920sMelanie Tebbutt (Manchester Metropolitan University)Women domestic and farm workers in Munster, 1936-60: insights from personal testimoniesMáire Leane &#38; Liz Kiely (University College Cork) 1115-1145                      Coffee 1145-1300                      Tawney LectureProfessor Riitta Hjerppe (University of Helsinki)Paper title: TBA 1300-1400                      Lunch Rural-urban migration and socio-economic mobility in Victorian Britain