THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2001

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

1A.  Economic Issues in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Chair: Richard Keehn, University of Wisconsin Parkside

1. “The Evolution of Twelfth Century Commercial Contracts in Genoese Trade”
   Roberto Mazzoleni, Hofstra University.

2. “War Finance & State Budgets in Naples” Antonio Calabria, University of
   Texas, San Antonio.

1.  “Innovation, Imitation and Entrepreneurship” John Paul Rossi, Penn State Erie The Behrend College.

2. “Can Politicians Speed Up Long-Term Technological Change?” Jochen Streb, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany.

3. “Technology Transfer between Universities and Private Business in the
   19th and Early 20th Centuries” Julie Scott, Walla Walla College.
   
    

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2001

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

2A.  Policies and Mechanisms to Speed Technological Change
Chair: TBA

1. “Innovation, Imitation and Entrepreneurship” John Paul Rossi, Penn State Erie The Behrend College.

2. “Can Politicians Speed Up Long-Term Technological Change?” Jochen Streb, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany.

3. “Technology Transfer between Universities and Private Business in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” Julie Scott, Walla Walla College.

2B.  Business Practices and Industry Response in Canada, Britain and France
Chair: D. Gene Pace, Alice Lloyd College
 

1. “The Wallpaper Joint Industrial Council: A Success” James W. Stitt, High Point University.

2. “Lydia Pinkham in Canada: The Business and Culture of Patent Medicine Marketing, 1920- 1940.” Daniel Robinson, Univ. of Western Ontario.

3. “Buisiness System of the French Construction Industry, 1882-1929” Tetsuhiko Takai, INSEAD.
   
     

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2001

SESSION THREE: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

3A. Measuring Costs: Evaluating Accounting Methods and Legal Requirements
Chair: Allen Bures, Radford Univ.

1. “The Historical Development of Asset Valuation Concepts In U.S.” Jeome J. Deridder, Salisbury State University.

2.  “The "Old" Accounting Techniques Are Still Appropriate Today” Michael
   Trebesh, Alma College.

3. “The Limits of Plain English: The Costs of Legal Interpretation in
   Victoria” Wade Shilts, Luther College.
    

3B. Economic Progress of Native Americans and Canadian First Peoples
Chair: Harvey Hudspeth, Mississippi Valley State Univ.

1. “Opening the Door of Opportunity: Herbert Hoover, Minorities, and the Quest for Economic and Social Advance, 1925-1933” Silvano Wueschner, University of Iowa.
2.  “Struggling to Survive: The Mississippi Band of Choctaws from Assimilation to Self Determination” Michael V. Namorato, Univ. of
   Mississippi.
3. “Career Development & Advancement Patterns of Native American Executives in the Canadian Federal Public Service” Rocky J. Dwyer, Department of Indian Affairs, Ottawa.

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2001

SESSION FOUR: 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

4A. Structure, the Law, and Profit Issues of American Railroads
Chair: Silvano Wueschner, University of Iowa

1. “Railroads, Plantations, and Business Ideals in the 19th Century South”
   Steve Collins, St. Louis Community College.
2. “Organization or Profitability? A Railroad Success Story” Nancy L. Lumpkin, Georgetown College.
3. “The Trans-Missouri Case: Does the Sherman Act Apply to the Railroads?” Michael Landry & Richard Stone, Northeastern State University and Shippensburg University.
    

4B. International Cartels, Trade Restrictions, and Trade

        Regimes
Chair: Laurence Malone, Hartwick College
 

1. “The Voluntary Export Restraint (VER) Agreement with Japan on Automobiles in the 1980s” Carl H. Tong and Allen L. Bures, Radford University.

2. “Level Playing Fields: Business and the Revolution in the Australian Microeconomic Policy Regime” Jonathan J. Pincus, Adelaide University.

FRIDAY APRIL 26

SESSION FIVE  8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

5A. Constraints and Restrictions in U.S. Business       

        History
Chair: Larry Schweikart, Univ. of Dayton

1. “'Making A House A Home': A History of the Magee Carpet Company” Douglas Karsner, Bloomsburg University.

2. “Branch Banking Restrictions and Finance Constraints in Early 20^th Century America” Dan Giedeman, Grand Valley State University.
    

1. “George Shiras, Jr. and the Income Tax Case of 1895” Harvey Hudspeth, Mississippi Valley State University.
2. “Paz, PRI, and Progress: The Economic and Literary Struggle to Inspire Reform in 20th Century Mexico” D. Gene Pace, Alice Lloyd College.

FRIDAY APRIL 26

SESSION SIX  10:0 a.m. -11:30 a.m.

6A. Exploitation and Redistribution in American

       Economic History
Chair: George Gibson, Union College

1. “The United Order: Wealth Redistribution Among 19th Century Mormons”Eric Sanders, University of Illinois at Chicago.

2. “They Weren't Exactly the Welfare Cowboys of Today; Nevertheless, the
   Opening of the Trans- Mississippi Grain Belt Made Little Economic Sense”
   Thomas Winpenny, Elizabethtown College.

3. “The Hidden Economy of Slavery: Industrial Hiring in Pennsylvania, New
   Jersey and Delaware, 1760-1800” Michael V. Kennedy, Univ. of Michigan

6B. Property Rights, Trade Marks and Niche Strategies

        in U.S. Communications
Chair: John P. Rossi, PSU-Erie; Behrend College

1. “Innovations, Standards and Property Rights in Communications Technology
   from the Telegraph to eLearning” Leslie Martinich, Competitive Focus.

2. “Transforming Partisan Papers into Profitable Enterprises: American
   Newspapers from Jackson to McKinley” Larry Schweikart, University of
   Dayton.

3. “The Changing Roles and Profitability of the Good Housekeeping Seal of
   Quality” Lauren Strach and Malcolm Russell, Andrews U.
    

SATURDAY, APRIL 27

SESSION SEVEN: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

7A. Reappraisals of the Great Depression and its

        Antecedents
Chair: Gene Smiley, Marquette Univ.

1. “Jumpers and Hemlines: The Mythologizing of the Great Crash” Janice Traflet, Columbia University.

2. “Efficiency Wages, Insiders and Outsiders, and the Great Depression” Ranjit S. Dighe, SUNY-Oswego.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 27

SESSION SEVEN: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

8A Striking It Rich, Or Striking Out: Uncertain

       Investments Throughout History
Chair: Thomas Winpenny, Elizabethtown College
 

1. “A String of Bubbles: Tulips, the South Seas, and the 1990s Internet Frenzy” Jim O'Donnell, Huntington College.

2. “Pay Ball: Estimating the Profitability of the New York Yankees 1914-1937” Michael J. Haupert and Kenneth Winter, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.

3. “Agents and Group Players: A Comparative Analysis of 19th Century
   European Lotteries” Roberto Garvia, Institut für Spielforschung, Mozarteum
   Universität.

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8B. The Limits of Reform: Varying Results of Well

         Intentioned Attempts
Chair: Kenneth Weiher, Univ. of Texas-San Antonio

1. “'Free Trade' in the Americas: Commercial Informality in the Shaping of
   the Early Modern Caribbean” Lance Grahn, Marquette University.

2. “Limits of Americanization: Occupation Attempts to Reform German
   Economic Life After World War II” Frederick L. McKitrick, Monmouth Univ.

3. “British Monetarism In the Early Thatcher Years”
   Lynne Pierson Doti and Rachel Slomski, Chapman University.

Conference Paper Abstracts

to be posted in June

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