Fall 2013

Title

Speaker

Date

How much did English women earn in the past? 600 Years of female wages, from before the Black Death through the Industrial Revolution (paper co-authored with Jane Humphries)

Jacob Weisdorf (University of Southern Denmark, Centre for Economic Policy Research London, and Utrecht University).  

03-10-13

Serfs and the city; market conditions, surplus extraction institutions and urban growth in the Kingdom of Poland, 1500-1772

Mikolaj Malinovski (Utrecht University)

10-10-13

Political elites as educational elites: a comparison of 7 European countries’

Mark Bovens (Utrecht University, USBO) & Anchrit Wille (Leiden University) 

17-10-13

Too Much Ado about Morgan’s Men: The U.S. Securities Markets, 1908-1914

Book synopsis

Mary O’Sullivan (University of Geneva)

24-10-13

How important were formalized charity and social spending before the rise of the welfare state? A long-run analysis of selected western European cases, 1400—1850

Bas van Bavel & Auke Rijpma (Utrecht University).

31-10-13

Grain, Textiles, and Demand Elasticity in Late Mamluk Egypt: A Preliminary Sketch

Stuart Borsch (Assumption College and University of Bonn).

07-11-13

Pay before they preach: the funding of study costs for Dutch Protestant and Catholic theology students, 1800-1880

Ruben Schalk (Utrecht University).

14-11-13

First marriage among women in Latina America

Silvana Maubrigades (Universidad de la Républica, Uruguay).

21-11-13

Making the household work. Exploring the demand for servants and lodgers from a household life cycle perspective

Tine De Moor & Richard Zijdeman (both Utrecht University).

28-11-13

The dynamics of globalization in the early modern world: new evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic trade, c. 1600-1800

Pim de Zwart (IISG).

05-12-13