Spring 2013

Title

Speaker

Date

That’s What We Paid for It: The Spell of the Home Purchase Price through the Centuries

Piet Eichenholtz (Maastricht University) and Thies Lindenthal (MIT)

07-02-13

The Roots of Persistent Global Gaps in Democracy: Making the Family Count

Selin Dilli (UU)

14-02-13

Human capital in Qing China: economic determinism or a history of failed opportunities?

Xuyi (Guangxi Normal University), Bas van Leeuwen (UU) and Péter Földvári (UU)

21-02-13

An artisan 'revolution' in late-medieval and early modern Europe?

Maarten Prak (UU)

07-03-13

The Economic Impact of the Craft Guilds: A Quantitative Analysis for Dutch and Italian Cities, 1200-1800

Miguel Laborda-Pemán (UU)

14-03-13

China before Capitalism

R. Bin Wong (UCLA)

18-03-13

The Commercial Household: Household composition and living-in non-kin in an EMP-area (the Netherlands, 17th century)

Tine De Moor (UU) and Annemarie Bouman (UU)

21-03-13

The political economy of default: Sweden and the international capital markets, 1810-1832

Patrik Winton (Uppsala Universitet)

04-04-13

Doing business in a wave of nationalizations: Philipp Brothers and the Bolivian tin experience

Espen Storli (Universitetet i Oslo)

11-04-13

Mining: Late Antiquity to Early Islam

Michael Morony (UCLA)

18-04-13

Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Political Legacies of the Waqf

Timur Kuran (Duke University)

25-04-13