Spring 2016

Title

Speaker

Date

Global Absolute Poverty: Behind the Veil of Dollars

Michalis Moatsos (Utrecht University)

4/2/2016

Internationalism in the Heart of Darkness: Scientists and the Albert National Park, Belgian Congo (1920-1960)

Raf de Bont (Maastricht University)

11/2/2016

Representation and Consent: Why They Arose in Europe and Not Elsewhere

David Stasavage (New York University)

19/2/2016

From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt 

Dacil Juif (Wageningen University) (co-authored with Ewout Frankema)

25/2/2016

Economic Development in a Limited Access Order: North-western Europe, c. 1000-1800        

Bram van Besouw, Erik Ansink and Bas van Bavel (Utrecht University)        

3/3/2016

Institutions and the performance of Coupled Infrastructure Systems

Marty Anderies (Arizona State University)

10/3/2016

Revisiting the de-industrialization thesis. Gender and indigenous textile production in Java under Dutch colonial rule, ca. 1830-1940

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Wageningen University)

17/3/2016

Strategies of Christian Growth: Evidence from Locational Choices in Ghana 1751-1932

Felix Meier zu Selhausen (University of Sussex and Southern Denmark) (co-authored with Remi Jedwab and Alexander Moradi)

24/3/2016

Taxation of Employee Stock Options and Schumpeterian Entrepreneurship

Magnus Henrekson (Research Institute of Industrial Economics) (co-authored with Tino Sanandaji)

7/4/2016     

Church Affiliation and Life Course Transitions in The Netherlands, 1850-1970      

Jan Kok (Radboud University)

14/4/2016     

Occupational change in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1897-2002                           

Gijs Kessler (International Institute of Social History) (co-authored with Timur Valetov)

21/4/2016     

Spinner, Weaver, Docker, Whore, Towards a Global History of Work                       

Lex Heerma van Voss ( Huygens ING)

28/4/2016     

Family Characteristics and Economic Development  

David le Bris (Kedge Business School)

28/4/2016     

The Construction of Institutions for Economic Growth: A Global Comparison, 1500-2000

Maarten Prak (Untrecht University) and Regina Grafe (European University Institute)

19/4/2016