Queen's University, Department of Economics
Economic History Workshop Day
Friday, March 6, 2009
8:45 am- 4:45 pm
Hand-Purvis Conference Room, Dunning Hall Room 213
| Programme |
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| 8:45 am - 9:00 am |
Coffee, Dunning Hall (Room 214) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am |
Angela Redish (UBC - Weatherall Visitor) "Coin Sizes and Payments in Commodity Money Systems" |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:15 am - 11:15 am |
Chris Minns (LSE) "Apprenticeship and the Market for Training in Early Modern England" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am |
Break |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Zorina Khan (Bowdoin) "Premium Inventions: Patents and Prizes as Incentive Mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930" |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Graduate Student Session Alex Armstrong (Queen's) "Capital Constraints and European Migration to Canada: Evidence from the 1920s Passenger Lists" Jessica Bean (Cornell) "Poverty and Women's Work in Inter-war London" James Fenske (Yale) "Land Abundance and Economic Institutions: Egba Land and Slavery, 1830-1914" Nicholas Zammit (Queen's) "Success by Proxy: The Role of Patents in Canadian Adaptation" |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm |
Peter Lindert (UC Davis) "Revealing Failures in the History of Education Finance" |
We would like to acknowledge the generous financial and administrative support provided by Queen's Department of Economics and the Weatherall Visitor's Fund. |
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