Understanding Long Run Economic Growth:
A Conference Honoring the Contributions of Kenneth Sokoloff
Friday and Saturday, November 7-8, 2008
Organizers: Dora L. Costa and Naomi Lamoreaux
Sponsored by NBER, the All UC Economic History Group, UCLA
Friday, November 7, 2008
| 8:00: | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45: | Introduction |
| 9:00: | STANLEY ENGERMAN (University of Rochester and NBER) Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land and Immigration Policy in the New World (Joint with Kenneth Sokoloff) |
| Discussant: PETER LINDERT (University of California, Davis) | |
| 9:50: | JAMES ROBINSON (Harvard University and NBER) The Myth of the Frontier |
| Discussant: RONALD ROGOWSKI (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| 10:40: | Break |
| 11:00: | STEPHEN HABER (Stanford University and NBER) Do Natural Resources Cause Authoritarianism: A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse (joint with Victor Menaldo) |
| Discussant: JEFFREY FRIEDEN (Harvard University) | |
| 11:50: | DANIEL KAUFMANN (World Bank) Topic to be announced |
| Discussant: DANIEL TREISMAN (University of California, Los Angeles) | |
| 12:40: | Lunch |
| 2:00: | CLAUDIA GOLDIN (Harvard University and NBER) Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion (joint with Lawrence Katz) |
| Discussant: DAVID CARD (University of California, Berkeley and NBER) | |
| 2:50: | NAOMI LAMOREAUX (University of California, Los Angeles and NBER) The Reorganization of Invention in the Early Twentieth Century U.S. (joint with Kenneth Sokoloff and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal) |
| Discussant: ARIEL PAKES (Harvard University and NBER) | |
| 3:40: | Break |
| 4:00: | ROBERT W. FOGEL (University of Chicago and NBER) The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth |
| 5:00: | Adjourn |
| 6:00: | Dinner Remarks: DOUGLASS C. NORTH (Washington University, St. Louis) |
Saturday, November 8
| 7:45: | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:20: | ZORINA KHAN (Bowdoin College and NBER) How Do Incentive Mechanisms Affect Technological Innovation? |
| Discussant: MANUEL TRATJENBERG (Tel Aviv University) | |
| 9:10: | SUKKOO KIM (Washington University in St. Louis and NBER) Urban Primacy and Institutional Development: Evidence from the Americas (joint with Sebastian Galiani) |
| Discussant: EDWARD LEAMER (University of California, Los Angeles and NBER) | |
| 10:00: | Break |
| 10:20: | JOHN MAJEWSKI (University of California, Santa Barbara) Democracy, Development and the Costs of Incorporation: The Transportation Revolution in Britain and the United States (joint with Daniel Bogart) |
| Discussant: JOHN WALLIS (University of Maryland and NBER) | |
| 11:10: | JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL (Caltech) History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in 19th Century France (joint with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Philip T. Hoffman) |
| Discussant: JOEL MOKYR (Northwestern University) | |
| 12:00: | Adjourn |
Special Instructions
This event is by invitation only.