The Canadian Network for Economic History
Réseau canadien d'histoire economique
CONFERENCE
April 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