2011 EBHS Program
Columbus, Ohio
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2011 EBHS Program Columbus, Ohio |
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Economic and Business Historical Society
Annual Conference
Hyatt on Capitol Square
Columbus, Ohio
April 14-16, 2011
Conference Program
[Last updated after the conference.]
Registration and exhibits will be located in the foyer outside the Legislative Room.
About the panel numbers: Each panel has three identifiers:
· session number (1-11), denoting the time slot
· panel (A, B, or C) within the session
· number of papers in the panel (2 or 3 except for the two roundtables)
THURSDAY, APRIL 14
Session 1: 8:45 - 9:45 A.M.
Panel 1A2
Room: Legislative A
Top Down or Bottom Up: Asian Development and Entrepreneurship
Chair: Luis Dopico, Macrometrix
Afghanistan from Within: A Look at Afghanistan’s Development Through Its Provinces
Wesley Oliphant, Department of Economics, University of California at Irvine
Origins of the Indian IT Sector: Multinationals, Diaspora, and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy, 1960s-1990s
R. Daniel Wadwhani, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific
Panel 1B2
Room: Legislative B
House of Cards: Booms, Credit, and Debt
Chair: Mark Billings, Nottingham University Business School, UK
Credit: From Accelerator to Primary Means of Purchase
Kristen E. Broady, School of Business and Economics, Benedict College
The Housing Boom of the 1970s in California
Lynne Pierson Doti, Department of Economics, Chapman University
Session 2: 10:15 - 11:45 A.M.
Panel 2A3
Room: Legislative A
Britain in War and Peace
Chair: Wade Shilts, Department of Economics and Business, Luther College
A Historical Look at Application of Management Science on Warfare: The Case of the Battle of Trafalgar
Fatollah Salimian, Information and Decision Sciences Department, Salisbury University
Jerome J. DeRidder, Accounting and Legal Studies Department, Salisbury University
Democracy Disadvantaged? Rearmament and Industrial Reorganisation in Britain in the 1930s
Neil Forbes, Department of International Studies and Social Science, Coventry University, UK
“It Would Be Embarrassing From an Administrative Standpoint If Their Services Were Retained After the War, as They Could Not Be Fully Interchangeable With Men”: The “Indispensible” Position of Women Post Office Workers in Britain, 1939-1950
Mark Crowley, Wuhan University, China
Panel 2B3
Room: Legislative B
Oil on Troubled Waters: Energy, Business, and the Economy
Chair: Laurence Malone, Department of Economics, Hartwick College
Rocky Seas: The Dynamics of the Transition From Whale Oil to Petroleum
Brooks Kaiser, Department of Economics, Gettysburg College
Seeing the Industry Through a Glass Darkly: The Self Destruction of British Shipbuilding, 1960-1980
Duncan Philip Connors, Winton Centre for Financial History, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK
Self-Sufficient Energy Policy and International Monetary Relations: The US and the West European Countries’ Search for Alternatives to Oil Between the Downfall of Bretton Woods and the New Floating Regime
Simone Selva, Harvard University
11:45 A.M. - 12:45 P.M.
Lunch Break
Session 3: 12:45 - 2:15 P.M.
Panel 3A3
Room: Legislative A
20th Century Banks: Episodes and Developments in the USA, Britain, and Portugal
Chair: Eline Poelmans, Faculty of Economics and Management, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel and Faculty of Business and Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Portuguese Banking During World War II (1939-1945)
Luciano Amaral, Faculty of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Contested and Contestable Markets in British Retail Banking, 1945-70
Mark Billings, Nottingham University Business School, UK
Credit Union Conversions Into Banks
Luis Dopico, Macrometrix (presenting)
Stephanie Crofton, Department of Economics, High Point University (first author)
James A. Wilcox, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley
Panel 3B3
Room: Legislative B
Between the Wars
Chair: Neil Forbes, Department of International Studies and Social Science, Coventry University, UK
Diagnoses and Therapies of Hungarian Economists After WWI
Virag Rab, Department of Modern History, University of Pécs, Hungary
Was the Therapy of Brussels Efficient?
Marianna Gergely, Department of History, University of Pécs, Hungary
Pro Bono Publico? Demand for Military Spending Between the World Wars
Jari Eloranta, Department of History, Appalachian State University
Session 4: 2:25 - 3:25 P.M.
Panel 4A2
Room: Legislative A
Military Industrialists
Chair: Mark Crowley, Department of History, Wuhan University, China
A Profile of Simeon North: America's First Federal Arms Contractor
Steven Stovall, Business Administration and Economics Program, Wilmington College
A Pragmatic Nationalist: The Problem of Ernst Heinkel
Robert Rennie, Department of History, Appalachian State University
Panel 4B2: Spirit of '76: Adam Smith and Ben Franklin
Room: Legislative B
Chair: Michael Landry, Department of Business Administration, Northeastern State University
Adam Smith’s History: Artifacts and Analytic
Laurence Malone, Department of Economics, Hartwick College
Ben Franklin: A Pioneering Social Entrepreneur? A Historical Analysis
Abhijit Roy, Arthur J. Kania School of Management, University of Scranton
Session 5: 3:35 - 4:35 P.M.
Panel 5A
Room: Legislative A
Roundtable on Research, With Refreshments
Chair: Jari Eloranta, Department of History, Appalachian State University
Panel:
Erik Benson, History and Social Science Division, Cornerstone University
Janice Traflet, School of Management, Bucknell University
Olli Turunen, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Panel 5B
Room: Legislative B
Roundtable on Teaching, With Refreshments
Chair: Wade Shilts, Department of Economics and Business, Luther College
Panel:
Fred Gates, Department of History, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Jeremy Land, Department of History, Appalachian State University
Silvano Wueschner, Office of History, Air University
4:35 - 5:45 P.M.
Room: House
Board of Trustees Meeting
5:45 - 7:00 P.M.
Room: Executive Reception
FRIDAY, APRIL 15
Session 6: 8:30 - 10:00 A.M.
Panel 6A3
Room: Legislative A
African Economic and Political Development
Chair: Daniel C. Giedeman, Department of Economics, Grand Valley State University
Schemes to Develop French Africa: The Transsaharan Railway
John Perry, Department of History, The Ohio State University
Constitutions, Private Property, and Economic Growth in Africa: Decolonization Processes and Post-Colonial Reforms Matter
Dongwoo Yoo, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University
Panel 6B3
Room: Legislative B
Big Business Histories
Chair: Janice Traflet, School of Management, Bucknell University
ERMA: Automating Check Processing or a New Business Spatial Strategy for Bank of America, 1955-1966
Olga Pantelidou, School of Architectural Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
The Party's Own Advertising Company: The Business History of Förenade ARE-Bolagen 1947-1997
Erik Lakomaa, Department of Marketing and Strategy, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
A Brief History of Dillard's, Inc.: A Modern Department Store In a Declining Industry
Mark L. Gardner, Department of Economics, Piedmont College
Panel 6C3
Room: Senate
Banking and Financial Panics
Chair: Lynne Pierson Doti, Department of Economics, Chapman University
Banking and Financial Crises in United States History: What Guidance Can History Offer Policymakers?
Ellis Tallman, Department of Economics, Oberlin College
Elmus R. Wicker, Department of Economics, Indiana University
German Economists and the American Panic of 1893
Gregory R. Zieren, Department of History and Philosophy, Austin Peay State University
The Case of Bank Micaelense and the Panic of 1935
Fernando Lopes, Department of Economics and Management, Universidade dos Açores, Portugal
Session 7: 10:15 - 11:45
Panel 7A3
Room: Legislative A
Business Adventures and Misadventures in Africa
Chair: Duncan Connors, Winton Centre for Financial History, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK
A History of Lloyd’s in South Africa
Agata Bartylak, School of Economic and Business Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Panel 7B3
Room: Legislative B
Ancient and Medieval Economic History
Chair: Olli Turunen, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
The Denomination of Interest Rates in Ancient Athens
P.V. Viswanath, Department of Finance and Economics, Pace University
For the Whole Year: Methods and Issues Concerning the Portuguese Budgetary Problems in the Late Middle Ages
Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Department of History, CITCEM/University of Porto Department of History, University of Porto and Universidad de Valladol
Panel 7C3
Room: Senate
The Cheatin' Kind: Collusion and Copying in Industry
Chair: Fatollah Salimian, Information and Decision Sciences Department, Salisbury University
Strategic Plagiarism in the Canadian Cast Iron Industry in the Early 20th Century
Lisa Baillargeon, Department of Accounting, Université du Québec en Outaouai, Canada
Patrice Gélinas, Department of Accounting, York University, Canada
Did the NRA Foster Collusion? Evidence from the Macaroni Industry
Nicolas Ziebarth, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Chris Vickers, Department of Economics, Northwestern University
The Schuman Plan Declaration of 9th May 1950: A Concealed and Huge Cartel – Was It Perceived That Way?
Eline Poelmans, Faculty of Economics and Management, Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel and Faculty of Business and Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
11:45 A.M. - 1:20 P.M.
Lunch Break
1:20 - 4:30 P.M.
Ohio Historical Society Tour
4:45 - 6:00 P.M.
Room: House
Member Business Meeting
6:30 - 9:00 P.M.
Room: Congressional
Banquet and Keynote Address
Keeping Score: New Biological Measures of the Standard of Living
Richard H. Steckel, Departments of Economics, Anthropology and History, The Ohio State University
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
Session 8: 8:30 - 9:30 A.M.
Panel 8A2
Room: Legislative A
Shut Out: Exclusion in the Baseball Business, and Its Effects
Chair: Scott Martin, Department of History, Wayne State University
The National Negro Business League
Michael Boston, Department of History, State University of New York at Brockport
Panel 8B2
Room: Legislative B
A Buckeye View: The American Labor Market as Seen From Ohio
Chair: Brooks Kaiser, Department of Economics, Gettysburg College
A Study of the Wage Dispersion Across Sixty Years of Structural Change: 1877 to 1937
Marina Adshade, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, Canad
Panel 8C2
Room: Senate
American Originals: La Guardia and Nixon
Chair: Thomas R. Winpenny, Department of History, Elizabethtown College
Good Government Insurgent: The Life of Fiorello H. La Guardia
Daniel S. Marrone, Department of Business Management, State University of New York at Farmingdale
Shock Treatment Was Needed, and That’s What We Got: American Business Reactions to Nixon's Wage and Price Controls
John Moore, Finance and Economics Department, Walsh College
Session 9: 9:40 - 10:40 A.M.
Panel 9A2
Room: Legislative A
Like a Ball Game on a Rainy Day: Baseball in Hard Times
Chair: Erik Benson, History and Social Science Division, Cornerstone University
Making Money in a Losing Cause: Harry Sinclair and the Newark Pepper of the Federal League
Michael V. Kennedy, Department of History, High Point University
Wages in Times of Crisis: Employing a Regime Switching Model to the Major League Baseball Labor Market
Michael Haupert, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
James Murray, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
Panel 9B2
Room: Legislative B
Banking and Economic Development in the 19th Century
Chair: Jerome DeRidder, Accounting and Legal Studies Department, Salisbury University
The Evolution of U.S. Banknote Redemption Networks, 1860-1874
Scott Redenius, Department of Economics, Brandeis University
Steam Engines of Credit: The Role of Banks in Switzerland’s Economic Development, 1850-1913
Daniel C. Giedeman, Department of Economics, Grand Valley State University
Panel 9C2
Room: Senate
Human Capital Accumulation in Comparative Perspective
Chair: Lisa Baillargeon, Department of Accounting, Université du Québec en Outaouai, Canada
Irregular Attendance and the Gender Literacy Gap of 1870
William Troost, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California
Education and Return on Human Capital Investment in Japan and Finland, 1950–2010
Olli Turunen, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Yasushi Tanaka, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Session 10: 10:50 - 11:50 A.M.
Panel 10A2
Room: Legislative A
The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat: Lottery Winners and an Olympic Also-Ran
The Olympics? What Olympics? Detroit’s Bid for the 1968 Olympic Games
Scott Martin, Department of History, Wayne State University
Windfalls to the Financially Challenged: What a Nasty and Dastardly Development
Thomas R. Winpenny, Department of History, Elizabethtown College
Panel 10B2
Room: Legislative B
Stock Markets in Historical Context: The USA and Portugal
Chair: Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Department of History, CITCEM/University of Porto Department of History, University of Porto and Universidad de Valladoli
The Juridical Model of the Lisbon Exchange in the Historical Context
Maria Eugenia Mata, Faculty of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
José Rodrigues da Costa, Faculty of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
David Justino, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Democratizing the Stock Market: Charles Merrill Reevaluated
Janice Traflet, School of Management, Bucknell University
Panel 10C2
Room: Senate
Show Stoppers? Censorship and Regulation in Film and TV
Chair: Ranjit Dighe, Department of Economics, State University of New York at Oswego
Censorship as a Business Proposition: The American Film Industry From Mutual to Miracle, 1915-1952
Clayton Koppes, Department of History, Oberlin College
Nielsen and the Networks: Scientific Capitalism, Broadcasters and Congress, 1956-1959
Shawn Selby, Department of History, Kent State University at Stark
Noon - 1:00 P.M.: Session 11
Panel 11A2
Room: Legislative A
God and Mammon: Religious Capitalists and Workers
Chair: John S. Lyons, Department of Economics, Miami University of Ohio
Religion and Chocolate: The Pious Quaker Cadbury Family and the Renegade Mennonite Hershey
George Lehman, Division of Business Studies, Bluffton University
“It's Easy to Write a Paper, It's Not So Easy to Live”: North American Religious Institutions and Their Mennonite Employees
Janis Thiessen, Department of History, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Panel 11B2
Room: Legislative B
The Violent Bear It Away: War and Transportation
Chair: Douglas Karsner, Department of History, Bloomsburg University
The Price of Empire: Britain and Transportation during the Seven Years War
Jeremy Land, Department of History, Appalachian State University
Commerce in the Late Unpleasantness: Business Aspects of Civil War Railroads
Panel 11C2
Room: Senate
Coming to America: Immigration as Seen at the South and the Frontier
Chair: Fred Gates, Department of History, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Coming to America: Exploring Early Twentieth Century Migration to the United States through Southern Points of Entry
Edward Kosack, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Zachary Ward, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Effect of Immigration Quotas on Immigrant Skill Composition: Evidence from the Frontier
Catherine Massey, Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder