Fall 2016

 

Title 

Speaker 

Date

Failure and Flexibility: Exits from Apprenticeship Training in Pre-Modern Europe

Ruben Schalk (Utrecht University), Patrick Wallis (LSE) and Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po)

22/9/2016

Was the First Industrial Revolution a Conjuncture in the History of the World Economy?

Patrick O'Brien (LSE)

29/9/2016

The Cool Water Effect: Civilization's Late Turn into Human Empowerment

Christian Welzel (Leuphana University)

6/10/2016

There will be no seminar this week

No seminar

13/10/2016

The Nuclear Family in the History of Indo-European-speaking Societies: a Phylogenetic Comparative Approach (12 and 3)

Laura Fortunato (Oxford University)

20/10/2016

Public Functions, Private Markets: Credit Registration by Aldermen and Notaries in the Low Countries, 1500-1800

Oscar Gelderblom, Mark Hup and Joost Jonker (all Utrecht University)

27/10/2016

Dating the Military Revolution

Davide Cantoni (LMU München)

3/11/2016

Government Institutions and Economic Development in Tokugawa Japan: A Study of the Effects of Systems Competition

Geert Schreurs (Hitotsubashi University)

10/11/2016

A Consumption-based View of the Standard of Living in the Dutch Republic

Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley)

17/11/2016

A Comparative Perspective on Gender Inequality in Credit Property Markets in Fifteenth-century Brabant

Andrea Bardyn (KU Leuven)

24/11/2016

Church Building as a Measure of the Long Boom of Medieval Europe

Auke Rijpma, Eltjo Buringh, Jan Luiten van Zanden (all Utrecht University), and Bruce Campbell (Queens university Belfast)

1/12/2016

Imagining the Future. An economic history of Time Preference & Time Horizon

Gerarda Westerhuis and Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University)

8/12/2016

Extra seminar:

Together with Weipeng Yuan: The Development of Chinese Accounting and Bookkeeping Before 1850: Insights from the Tŏng Tài Shēng Business Account Books (1798-1850)

Together with Keith Hoskin: Rational Evolution or Socially Constructed Counter-myth? Cross-cultural Perceptions of the Development of Chinese Commercial Accounting up to c.1850 and its Significance

 

Richard Macve and Debin Ma (both London School of Economics and Politi