THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2001

SESSION ONE: 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

1A.  As Close As Some Will Get:  One Hour Away  From The Baseball Hall of Fame

Chair: Rangit Dighe, State University of New York-Oswego

1. "Labor Right and Franchise Performance in Baseball, 1969-2000:  The Case of the Oakland Athletics" Robert Jackson, State University of New York--Oneonta

2. "The Culture of Baseball" William Simons , State University of New York--Oneonta

1B. North American Landscapes and Expanding 

        Markets

Chair: Harvey Strum, Sage Colleges

1.        "A Landscape Fit for Shipping:  The Commercial Impetus Behind Expanding Frontiers in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic, 1683-1800"  Michael Kennedy, University of Michigan-Flint

2.        "The Urban Hinterland:  Centralization and the Rise of New York Port, 1780-1825" Rohit T. Aggarwala, Columbia University

3.        "The Interpretation of Montreal's Growth Over 1851-1901 and the Emergence of an Unusual Core Periphery Pattern"Benoit-Mario Papillon, University of Quebec in Trois-Rivieres

SESSION TWO: 11A.M.-12:30 p.m.

2A.  Intended and Unintended Consequences in Motor Vehicles, Innovations, and External Shock

Chair:  Robert Jackson, State University of New York-Oneonta

1. "Gasoline Rabies:  The Problems and Costs Accompanying the Development of the US's Motor Vehicle Based System of Transportation, 1919-1929" John Rossi, Penn State - Erie

2. "Competing Through Innovation:  Implications for Economic Behavior and Structure" James Smith, Widener University

3. "Oil Price Increases as Supply Shocks:  A Reconsideration of the Evidence" Malcolm B. Russell, Andrews University

2B.  During and After Wartime:  Inflation, Reconstruction, and Insurance

Chair:  Jane Knodell, University of Vermont

1.        "Problems in Analyzing Inflation During the Civil War" Mike Haupert and Paul R. Averbach, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

2.        "The Reconstruction of the German Merchant Fleet and the Shipbuilder Blohm and Voss, 1918-1923" Olaf Mertelsmann, Novosibirsk State University

3.        "Towards the 'Cult of the Equity'?:  Insurance Companies and the Interwar British Capital Market" Peter Scott,   University of Portsmouth  

SESSION THREE: 2:30 P.M.-4:00 p.m.

3A.  Looking Backward and Forward in the Fourth Century of American Federal Spending

Chair:  Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin

1.        "Federal Investments in Private Canal Companies, 1825-1835"  Carl Lane, Felician College

2.        "World War Two Spending and the Southern Economic Rebound", Jason Taylor, University of Virginia

3.        "The Decline of the Federal Debt:  Life Without Hamilton's Blessing?" Ken Weiher, University of Texas at San Antonio                      

3B.  Three Entrepreneurial Publishers:  Edward Bok, Lyman Cobb, and William Buck Dana

Chair:  David Whitten, Auburn University

1.        "Edward Bok:  The Editor as Entrepreneur",  W. David Lewis,  Auburn University

2.        "Lyman Cobb (1800-1864):  Textbook Writer as Entrepreneur"  Charles Monaghan,    Brooklyn, NY 

3.        "Peerless Spokesman:  William Buck Dana's Chronicle"  Douglas Steeples, Mercer  University  

FRIDAY, April 27,  2001

SESSION FOUR: 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

4A.  Changing Economic Patterns Among the Amish and Native Americans

Chair:  Malcolm Russell, Andrews University

1.        "Choctaw Industries Expand Abroad”  Michael Namorato,  University of Mississippi

2.        "Economic Pragmatism:  The Iowa Amish and The Vision of Communal Coherence in Late 20th Century America" Silvano Wueschner,  William Penn University

3.        "Recommitting vs. Selling Out:  The Changing Economic Role of the Plain People of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania" Tom Winpenny,  Elizabethtown College

4B.  The Continuous Evolution of Valuation and Exchange

Chair:  Stephen Kolenda,  Hartwick College

1.        "Historical Evolution of Income Evaluation Concepts in Accounting" Jerome Deridder, Salisbury State University  

2.    "Conflict between the Federal Reserve System and the Comptroller of the Currency in the 1920s: A Case Study of a Representative Country Bank."  Michael McAvoy, SUNY College at Oneonta

4C.  Populism and Popular Culture:  L. Frank Baum and a Young Hollywood

Chair:  Jane Plitt, University of Rochester

1.        "Oz, Populism, and Intent"  Ranjit Dighe,   State University of New York-Oswego

2.        "'I Really Want to Direct…':  The Rise of Hollywood and the First Wave of Movie Star/Producers" Karen Ward Mahar,  Siena College  

SESSION FIVE: 11:0 0 a.m. - 12:30 NOON

5A.  Improving the Prospects for Labor:  Better Education, Minimum Wages, and Guaranteed Employment

Chair:  James Stitt,  High Point University

1.        "The Smith-Hughes Act of 1917: Progressive Education, Business, and Organized Labor" David Aske, University of Northern Colorado

2.        "Monopsony and Minimum Wages:  Evidence From the Tobacco Leaf-Processing Industry" Andrew Seltzer, Royal Holloway, University of London

3.        "Adjustments Prior to Long-term Stable Employment: Preconditions of the Japanese Employment System, 1945-49" Jae-won Sun,  Harvard University

5B.  Do Things Add Up and Subtract Down?  Three Lessons in Business History

Chair:  Doug Steeples, Mercer University

1.        "The  South pays for the North: Financing the Thirty Years' War from Naples, 1618-1648." Antonio Calabria, University of Texas, San Antonio

2.        "When Two Plus Two Did Not Equal Five" Theodore P. Kovaleff, New York City

3.        "Russian Robber Barons:  Moscow Business, American Style" David O. Whitten, Auburn University

5C.  Where Do Banks Come From?  What Do Banks Do?

Chair:  Silvano Wueschner, William Penn University

1.        "Profit and Duty in the Exchange Operations of the Second Bank of the United States" Jane Ellen Knodell, University of Vermont

2.        "'Under the Wholesome Inspection and Control of Government:'  The Emergence of Savings Bank Regulation and Depositor Protections in the Century Before FDIC"  Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, University of Pennsylvania

3.        "Frank Vanderlip and the National City Bank During World War I" Priscilla Roberts, Hong Kong University  

SATURDAY April 28, 2001

SESSION SIX: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m

6A.  Agents of Industrial Change:  The Entrepreneur, the Sales Force, and Barbers and Hairdressers

Chair:  Jocelyn Wills,   Brooklyn College

1.        "Yankee Enterprise:  The Early Rise & Fall of Corning Glass Works, 1851-1871" Jeffrey Matthews, University of Puget Sound

2.        "The Role of Sales Agents in the Diffusion of U.S. Machine Tool Technology in Europe"  Roberto Mazzoleni, Hofstra University

3.        "The Battle of the Sexes:  The Beauty Industry's Lessons" Jane R. Plitt, University of Rochester

6B.  The Three S's of Business:  Strategy, Structure, and Survival

Chair:  Michael Namorato, University of Mississippi

1.        "ESOP Negotiations in United Airlines, 1985-2000: The Case for Re-thinking Strategic Shareholder Management"Juha Antti Lamberg, Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration , University of Alabama

3.        "Trans World Airline--Still Searching for a Place in the Crowded Skies" Marian C. Schultz, The University of West Florida

4.        "The Nordstrom Way--Will It Survive?"  Mark L. Gardner,   Piedmont College

SESSION SEVEN: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

7A.  Intriguing Views on the Economic Past

Chair:  Jason Taylor,  University of Virginia

1.        "Standards of Living and Capital Formation Among Peasant Holdings in Post-Plague England" Harry Kitsikopoulos,  New York University

2.      "The Rise and Fall of the Greene Doctrine: The Sherman Act, Howell Jackson, and the Interpretation of  'Interstate Commerce,' 1890-1941"  Harvey Hudspeth, Mississippi Valley State University 

7B.  Beyond Multipliers:  Global Studies on the Effects of Government Policy

Chair:  John Rossi,  The Behrend College

1.        "How Wartime Governmental Regulations Changed British Industrial Relations, 1914-1916", James Stitt High Point University

2.        "A Business and Government Partnership in Post-War New Zealand: Fletchers, Construction, Forests and Paper" Astrid Baker, Massey University,  Palmerston North, New Zealand

3.        "Protection Against Financial Crisis and Collapse?  The Role of Regulation and Supervision.  The Norwegian Case 1914-35" Sverre Knutsen and Gunhild Ecklund, Norwegian School of Management , Sandvika, Norway  

7C.  TBA

Chair:  Larry Malone, Hartwick College

1.        "Stalking the Kabuli Walla" Karl Borden, University of Nebraska

2.        “Capital Flight Due to Tax Differentials:  Some Analytical Thoughts"  Magdalena Rappl, Tennessee Tech University

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