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Thursday, April 23rd
Session 1
(8:30-10:00 A.M.)
Panel A: “Micro (and Macro) Computer Effects on
Information Technology.” (Grandview A)
Chair: Wade Shilts (Luther College)
“Banking,
Computers and Government Policy in 1960s Britain.” Mark Billings
(Nottingham University) and Alan Booth (University of Exeter)
“Information Technology,
Productivity, Value Added, and Inflation: An Empirical Study on the U.S.
Economy, 1959-2008.” Ashraf Galal Eid (King Fahd University of Petroleum
and Minerals)
“The Internet and Organizational
Evolution of Hospital Radiology Practices in the United States.”
Stan Vornovitsky (United State Department of Health and Human Services)
Panel B:
“Crafting an Image: Two Studies in Commodity Development.”
(Grandview B&C)
Chair:
Christiane Diehl Taylor (Eastern Kentucky University)
“Fashion in the Kitchen: Cast Iron
Stoves in the Province of Quebec, 1900-1914.” Lisa Baillargeon (Université
du Québec en Outaouais) and Patrice Gélinas (York University)
“The Most
Successful Failure in Publishing History: The Commodification of
Consensus America, Visuality and the History of Life Magazine.”
Devan Bissonette (Binghamton University)
Panel C: “Peixe and Paper: Growth in Two
European Industries.” (Berkey)
Chair: Jari
Eloranta (Appalachian State University)
“The Expansion of Portuguese Canned Fish Consumption in
the North American Market between the Great Wars.” Maria Cristina
Moreira (University of Minho) and José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro (University
of Minho)
“Paper and Pulp Industry in Germany, 1800–2000.” Olli
Turunen (University of Jyväskylä)
Refreshment
Break-Nelson (10:00-10:30 A.M.)
Session 2
(10:30-11:30 A.M.)
Pedagogy
Roundtable: “Some Learning about Learners.” (Grandview A)
Moderator:
Erik Benson (Cornerstone University)
Panelists:
Wade Shilts (Luther College), Dan Giedeman (Grand Valley State
University), George Gibson (Union College)
Lunch: 11:30
A.M.-1:00 P.M.
Session 3
(1:00-2:30 P.M.)
Panel A: “It’s
Not Easy Being Green: Economics and Environment.” (Grandview A)
Chair:
Michael Landry (Northeastern State University)
“Grand Rapids and the City
Beautiful Movement, 1905 – 1911: a Story of Civic Prosperity, Pride, and
Power.” Kyle Bingman (Cornerstone University) and
Erik Benson (Cornerstone University)
“From Rivers to Roads: Economic
and Environmental Impact of Recent Infrastructure Expansion in North
Carolina.” Alex Wisnoski (Appalachian State University) and Jari
Eloranta (Appalachian State University)
Panel B:
“Does It Matter? Institutional Factors in Economic Development.”
(Grandview B&C)
Chair: Luis G. Dopico (Macrometrix)
“Rent Seeking
and Economic Growth: Europe and East Asia, the Cases of Portugal and
Taiwan, 1950-2007.” Luciano Amaral (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
“Evolution of an Industry Under
Alternative Institutional Regimes: a Historical Case Study of the
Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Complex.” Arina Matvejeva (University of
Delaware)
“Investing in Institutions.” Ryan A. Compton (University
of Manitoba), Daniel C. Giedeman (Grand Valley State University) and
Noel D. Johnson (George Mason University)
Panel C: “Survival of the
Fittest?” (Berkey)
Chair: Neil
Forbes (Coventry University)
“Dow Gambit:
Overcoming Predatory Pricing.”
Mona
Moldoveanu (Central Michigan University) and Jason E. Taylor (Central
Michigan University)
“Historical Perspectives on the
‘Concentrations’ in the European Coal and Steel Community, 1952-1967.”
Eline Poelmans (Catholic
University of Leuven)
Refreshment
Break-Nelson (2:30-3:00 P.M.)
Session 4
(3:00-4:00 P.M.)
Panel A: “Industrial Arts and
Letters: Analyses of Economic Paradigm Shifts.” (Grandview A)
Chair: Stephanie Crofton (High
Point University)
“Factor-augmenting Technical
Change and the British Industrial Revolution.” Jørgen Heibø Modalsli
(University of Oslo) and Jose Anchorena (University of Oslo)
“The Evolution of Craftsmen
Guilds.” Der-Yuan Yang (National Kaohsiung First University of Science
and Technology)
Panel B:
“Risky Business.” (Grandview B&C)
Chair: Fatollah Salimian
(Salisbury University)
“Entrepreneurship in
Twelfth-Century Venice: Risk and Reward in the Life of Romano Mairano.”
Steven D. Sargent (Union College)
“Milton and Moteucçoma: Aztec and
Spanish Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty.” Scott Martin
(Central Michigan University)
Panel C:
“What Stuck? Depression-Era Wages and Welfare Impact.” (Berkey)
Chair: Jerome
DeRidder (Salisbury University)
“Did U.S.
Wages Become Stickier between the World Wars?” Ranjit S. Dighe (State
University of New York at Oswego) and Elizabeth Dunne Schmitt (State
University of New York at Oswego)
“The Welfare
Impact of Collusion under Various Industry Characteristics.” Jason
Taylor (Central Michigan University)
Board
Meeting-Grandview A (4:30-5:30 P.M.)
Annual
Thursday Evening Reception-Grand Valley State University (6:00-8:00
P.M.)
Friday, April 24th
Continental
Breakfast-Nelson (7:30-8:30 A.M.)
Session 5 (8:30-9:30 A.M.)
Panel A: “The Disease, the Cure?
Perspectives on American Consumer Culture.” (Grandview A)
Chair: James Stitt (High Point
University)
“The Ecstasy of Hyper-Consumption, a Disease without
Cure, and the Onslaught of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Debacle of 2007.”
Thomas R. Winpenny (Elizabethtown College)
“God’s Green:
The Economic Push of Eco-Evangelicalism in Grand Rapids,
Michigan.” Matt Elmore (Cornerstone University) and
Erik Benson (Cornerstone University)
Panel B: “A Tale of Two Cities:
Development in Communities.” (Grandview B&C)
Chair: Silvano Wueschner (Air
University)
“Theodore
Roosevelt, His Family, and Long Island’s Farmingdale State College of
the State University of New York.” Daniel S. Marrone (Farmingdale State
College of the State University of New York)
“The Emergence of a High-Tech
Centre in the Periphery: The Cultural,
Political and Economical Prerequisites of
the Oulu Technology Phenomenon.” Matti Salo
(University
of Oulu)
Panel C: “Sound as a Pound? Issues
of Finance, Political Risk, and Military Preparedness.” (Berkey)
Chair: Jari Eloranta (Appalachian
State University)
“How Prepared Was Britain for War? The Edwardian Economy,
the Liberal Government and the Trade-off Between Economy and Reform
c1906-1914.” Roger Lloyd-Jones (Sheffield Hallam University) and M.J.
Lewis (Sheffield Hallam University)
“Family Capitalism and Political Risk: the London
Rothschilds and Reconstruction in Central and Eastern Europe in the
1920s.” Neil Forbes (Coventry University)
Refreshment Break-Nelson (9:30-10:00 A.M.)
Session 6 (10:00-11:30 A.M.)
Panel A: “Sales Jobs: the Politics of Economic Policies.”
(Grandview A)
Chair: Doug Karsner (Bloomsburg University)
“Oversell and Underperform: A Study of the Economic
Impacts of the Great Society on the City of Detroit, 1964-1968.”
Joseph Corey (Central Michigan University) and Jason
Taylor (Central Michigan University)
“Catholic Guilt: Nixon, the Church, and Welfare Reform.”
Lawrence McAndrews (St. Norbert College)
"Canada’s National Productivity Council." James Stitt
(High Point University)
Panel B: “Me, My Job, and
Identity.” (Grandview B&C)
Chair: Thomas R. Winpenny (Elizabethtown College)
“The Editorial Debate over Labor
in Georgia’s Antebellum Textile Mills.” Frederick Gates (Southwestern
Oklahoma State University)
“Free Women, Slave Society:
Henrico, Virginia, 1780-1860.” James R. Irwin (Central Michigan
University) and Catherine L. McDevitt (Central Michigan University)
“Tho’ Death Did Us Part: Business
Success and the Widow.” Christiane Diehl Taylor (Eastern Kentucky
University)
Panel C: “A Fork in the Road to
Mass Investing.” (Berkey)
Chair: Jonathan Russ, University of Delaware
“Mutual Fund Distribution and
Americans’ Increased Involvement in the Stock Market.” Emily Martz
(University of Delaware)
“The NYSE, the Small Retail
Investor, and the Specter of Institutional Domination in 1950s America.”
Janice Traflet (Bucknell University)
Lunch:
Cornerstone University (with reservation) (12:00-1:45 P.M.)
Afternoon
Tour: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum (2:00 P.M.)
Member
Business Meeting-Grandview A (4:30-5:30 P.M.)
Saturday, April 25th
Continental
Breakfast-Nelson (8:00-8:30 A.M.)
Session 7
(8:30-10:00 A.M.)
Panel A: “On
the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species:
Evolving Fields.” (Grandview A)
Chair: Jason
Taylor (Central Michigan University)
“The
Evolution of the Finance Field.” George Chang (Grand Valley State
University)
“A Historical
Look at the Evolution of Consumer Price Index and Its Computational
Methodologies Since 1913.” Jerome DeRidder (Salisbury University) and
Fatollah Salimian (Salisbury University)
“The
postwar evolution of NIH patent policy and university-industry
collaboration in pharmaceuticals.”
Roberto Mazzoleni
(Hofstra
University)
Panel B:
“Blessed Assurance: Security
for Shareholders, Retailers, and Retirees.” (Grandview B&C)
Chair: Janice
Traflet (Bucknell University)
“The Birth of Consumer Credit
Reporting in Nineteenth-Century America.” Josh Lauer (University of New
Hampshire)
“American
Share Insurance and the History of Private Deposit Insurance for Credit
Unions in the U.S.” Stephanie O. Crofton (High Point University) and
Luis G. Dopico (Macrometrix)
“Pay-as-you-go Government
Retirement Pension Systems: What Are They?” Alfred C. Mierzejewski
(University of North Texas)
Panel C:
“Price Fixing: Policies,
Practices, and Ideas.” (Berkey)
Chair:
Frederick Gates (Southwestern
Oklahoma State University)
"Organizational and Economic Evaluation of the Pony
Express." Wayne D. Cottrell (Advanced
Transit Association)
“Bad Wine or Good Policy?
Phylloxera and Local Tax Reform During the Third Republic.” Noel D.
Johnson (George Mason University), Raphaël Franck (Bar Ilan University)
and John V.C. Nye (George Mason University)
“Nineteenth-Century Reasoning on Pricing for Railroad Services: The
Portuguese Economist Severim de Azevedo’s Contributions.” Maria Eugénia
Mata (Universidade
Nova de Lisboa)
Coffee
Break-Nelson (10:00-10:15 A.M.)
Session 8
(10:15-11:15 A.M.)
Panel A: “Moving Forward, Holding Back: Postwar
Commercial Aviation Developments.” (Grandview A)
Chair: Erik Benson (Cornerstone University)
“New Arteries of Commerce: Airlines and the
Transformation of US-Japanese Transpacific Trade, 1947-1977.” Douglas
Karsner, Bloomsburg University
“Backs to the Future: Airlines’ Post-War Fear of the Jet
Age.” Michael Landry (Northeastern State University) and
Richard D. Stone (Shippensburg University)
Panel B: “Sound Familiar? Private Banking Gives Way to
Government Control.” (Grandview B&C)
Chair: Dan Giedeman (Grand Valley State University)
“The Rise and Fall of the Private Banker in New York
City, 1893-1933.”
Patrick Van Horn
(University of Michigan at Dearborn)
“The Development of the Gold Settlement Fund and the
Beginning of Federal Control of Monetary Gold in the United States.”
Michael McAvoy (State University of New York at Oneonta)
Coffee
Break-Nelson (11:15-11:30 A.M.)
Session 9 (11:30 A.M.-1:00 P.M.)
Panel A: “No Simple Pleasures: Business and Leisure.”
(Grandview A)
Chair: Ranjit Dighe (State
University of New York at Oswego)
“You Can't Get
Me, I'm Part Of The Union...or am I?” Michael Kennedy (High Point
University)
“How Addiction to Nicotine
Transformed Labor Relations during the Era of Mass Production.” Gregory
Wood (Frostburg State University)
“The Business of Sports: Romanian Views of Professional
Sports in the West, 1940s-1960s.” Mihaela Wood (University of Illinois)
Panel B: “Banks Behaving Badly?” (Grandview B&C)
Chair: Lynne Pierson Doti (Chapman University)
“Money in Occupied New Orleans, 1862-1868.” Gary M.
Pecquet (Central Michigan University) and Clifford Thies (Shenandoah
University)
“Oklahoma Banking Behavior During the Panic of 1907.”
Loren Gatch (University of Central Oklahoma)
“Wildcat Banking in Michigan:
Safeguards, Specie Suspension and Poisoned Bank Notes.” Gary M. Pecquet
(Central Michigan University) and John A. Dove (West Virginia
University)
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