The Canadian Network for Economic History
Réseau canadien d'histoire economique
CONFERENCEApril 15-17, 2005
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Michael Bordo (Rutgers), John Lane (Rutgers), and
Angela Redish (University of British Columbia)
The Role of Gold in the Deflation of the Late 19th Century
Louis Cain (Loyola University of Chicago and Northwestern University)
and David Haddock (Northwestern University)
Similar Economies, Similar Histories, Different Structures:
Transatlantic Contrasts in the Evolution of Professional Sports Leagues
Ann Carlos (University of Colorado), Frank Lewis (Queen's University),
and Alexander MacDonald (University of British Columbia)
Nutrition and the Standard of Living of Native Americans and Europeans
in the Eighteenth Century
Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern University), Timothy Guinnane
(Yale University) and Yoonseok Lee(Yale University)
The Passage of the Uniform Small Loan Law
Appendix
L. Di Matteo (Lakehead), H. Emery (Calgary) and M. Shanahan (South Australia)
Natural Resource Exports, Wealth Accumulation and Development in Settler
Economies: Northwestern Ontario and South Australia 1905-1915
Claude Diebolt (Montpellier, France) and Cédric Doliger (Montpellier)
Becker vs. Easterlin: Education, Fertility and Growth in France after World
War II
Mauricio Drelichman (British Columbia)
Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in
Sixteenth Century Castile
Ruth Dupré (University of Montreal) and Désiré
Vencatachellum (University of Montreal)
Canadians and Prohibition: An Analysis of the 1898 Referendum
David Green (University of British Columbia) and Alan Green (Queen's University)
Evolution of the Canadian Wage Structure from 1880 to the Present
Kris Inwood (University of Guelph) and John Cranfield (University of Guelph)
Anthropometric Indicators for Canada during the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries
David S. Jacks (Simon Fraser)
Populists v. Theorists: Futures Markets and the Volatility of Prices
Liam Kennedy (Queen's University-Belfast)
"The People's Fuel": Turf in Ireland in the 19th and 20th
Centuries
Mary MacKinnon (McGill University) and Daniel Parent (McGill University)
Pulled Up While Held Back: Institutions, Family Background,
and the Educational Attainment of Franco-Americans in New England
David Mitch (University of Maryland)
International Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences of the
Rise of the Engineering Profession and of Its Allegedly Delayed
Development in Britain
Carl Mosk (Victoria)
Infrastructure, Trade Driven Growth Potential and Economic Development in Two
Dominions: Canada and Australia Compared, 1917-1975
Richard Pomfret (University of Adelaide)
Resource Abundance and Long-Run Growth: When is Oil a Curse? The
Effect of Oil Discoveries on Kazakhstan's Economy
Mar Rubio (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) and Mauricio Folchi (Universidad de
Chile and Pompeu Fabra)
The Apparent Consumption of Fossil Energy as an Indicator of
Modernisation in Latin America by 1925: A Proposal using Foreign Trade
Statistics
Ronald A. Shearer (British Columbia)
Imperial Regulation And The Consitution Of Early Canadian Banking
Richard Sicotte (University of Vermont), Catalina Vizcarra
(University of Vermont) and Kirsten Wandschneider (Middlebury College)
Natural Resources and the Economic Consequences of the War in the Pacific
Dhanoos Sutthiphisal (McGill)
Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links Between Invention and
Production: Experience From the Second Industrial Revolution
Almos Tassonyi (University of Calgary)
Education, Debt Capacity and the Hard Budget Constraint for
Ontario Municipalities in the 1950s
Tony Ward (Brock University)
Institutional Constraints on Indian Farming on the Canadian Prairies,
1885 to 1920
Stuart Wilson (University of Regina)
Canadian Economic Development and Factor Movements before the Great
Depression