Spring 2012

Title

Speaker

Date

Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy

Erik Stam (UU)

01-03-12

Citizenship in premodern Eurasia: a comparison between China, the Near East and Europe

Maarten Prak (UU)

08-03-12

Keeping up the good works: voluntary giving and the financial maintenance of charitable institutions in the Dutch Republic, ca. 1600-1800

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Daniëlle Teeuwen (IISH)

15-03-12

The Triumph of Cotton in Europe

Peter Solar (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

22-03-12

The dictator's cycle: the effect of years in office on economic development in Africa and the Near East

Jason Papaioannou & Jan Luiten van Zanden (UU)

29-03-12

Public finance and the great divergence: a comparison of Britain and China in the long eighteenth century

Peer Vries (Universität Wien)

05-04-12

Structure follows strategy – or does it? The dynamic processes of introducing the M-form in two Dutch banks (joint with Gerarda Westerhuis)

Matthias Kipping (York University)

19-04-12

The Feudal Revolution and Europe's Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian and Muslim Worlds before 1500 CE (joint with Lisa Blaydes)

Eric Chaney (Harvard University)

26-04-12