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