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Providence, Rhode Island
April 26- 28, 2007
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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2003
SESSION
ONE: 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
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1A.
Chair/Discussant: Franklin Noll, U.S. Bureau of Engraving and
Printing
Local Money in the United
States During the Great Depression
Loren Gatch, University of
Central Oklahoma
Do banks
follow business cycles? Evidence from the Italian case,
1890-1973 C
arlo Brambilla, Bocconi
University,
Giandomenico
Piluso, University of Siena
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1B.
Chair/Discussant: Patrick
Breen, Providence College
Uncertain Business: A Case Study of Barbadian Plantation
Management, 1770-1793 J
ustin Roberts,
Johns Hopkins University
William Bligh -
Breadfruit and the Adjustment of the British West Indies to the
American Revolution
Jonathan M. Chu, University of
Massachusetts - Boston
Born out of Slavery – Evidence from Bergen County, New Jersey
1804-1846
Teresa
Hutchins, Ramapo College of New Jersey
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1C.
Chair/Discussant Dan Giedeman, Grand Valley State University
Insurance and Inter-Imperial Merchant Organization in the
Early Atlantic Economy and Theory Institutional Context
Christopher Ebert,
Brooklyn College
The
Organization of Merchant Empire: A Case Study of Portugal and
England
Claudia Rei,
Boston University
Operational Knowledge and Theory: The Occlusion of Global and
Regional Networks in Classical Economic Discourse
Woodruff D. Smith, University
of Massachusetts - Boston
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003
SESSION TWO: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00
p.m.
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2A.
Chair/Discussant: Wade Shilts, Luther College
The Historical
Development of the Legal Concept of the Modern Corporation
Willard F. Enteman, Rhode Island College
Business
Strategy and Litigation in the 1950s: The Case of Guttmann v.
Illinois Central Railroad,
James L. Hunt,
Mercer University
The Unites
States Statement of Cash Flows: Past, Present, and Future
Potential
Jerome J.
DeRidder, Perdue School of Business - Salisbury University
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2B.
Chair/Discussant: David Zalewski, Providence College
Private Banking Networks and the Development
of the Domestic Capital Market in the U.S., 1840-1880
Jane Knodell, University of Vermont
Banks on Board: Banks in German
and American Corporate Governance, 1870-1914
Jeffrey Fear, Harvard University
Christopher Kobrak, European School
of Management
A Vehicle for Growth:
Massachusetts Savings Bank Investment Regulation, 1816-1834
Jessica Vechbanyongratana,
University of Colorado at Boulder
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2C.
Chair/Discussant:Ralph
O. Gunderson, University
of
Wisconsin
- Oshkosh
Ripples Across
the Pond: American Liberals, British Socialists and the
Trajectory of the Trans-Atlantic Political Economy After the
British Labour Victory of 1945.
Gary
H. Darden, Fairleigh Dickinson University
"Every Man's
Need, But Not Every Man's Greed": The Gandhian Vision and
Indian Economic Development D. Gene Pace,
Claflin University
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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2003
SESSION
THREE: 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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3A.
3A.
Chair/Discussant:
Franklin Noll, U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
The Economic
Costs of Civil Wars: Chinese National Railroads, 1905-1923
Dan
Li, Boston University
A War of
Machinery: The Machine Tool Industry and Arming the Western
Front, 1914-16
Roger Lloyd-Jones,
Sheffield Hallam University
MJ. Lewis, Sheffield Hallam
University
Why Did the
League of Nations Fail?
Jari Eloranta,
Appalachian State University
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3B.
Chair/Discussant:
James Stitt, High Point University
Congressional
Planning for Industrial Training Centers for Women and
Children in Argentina, 1918-1930
Yovanna Pineda,
St.Michael's College
Forty Plus
Clubs and White-Collar Manhood during the Great Depression
Gregory Wood, Penn State University - Erie
Weaving Gender
into the Global Textile Industry Maura Doherty,
Independent Scholar
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3C.
Chair/Discussant:
Stephanie Crofton, High Point University
Managing
Elephant Labor: Writing Animals Into the History of American
Business
Susan Nance,
University of Guelph
The Creation
of the Sales Manager and the Evolution of the Traveling
Salesman: 1870-1940
Tammy McClanahan
Johnson, Academy of Academic Practitioners
From the
Background to the Foreground: 1950s Corporate America
"Discovers" the Importance of Social Capital in the
Achievement of Institutional and Managerial Success
Christiane Diehl
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THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003
SESSION
FOUR: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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4A.
Chair/Discussant: Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University
How Much Control Is Enough?
Control Organs Under Stalin, 1929-1953
Andrei Markevich, University of
Warwick
Selecting Risks in an
Ano1!Jmous World: The life Insurance Agency System of
Antebellum America Sharon A. Murphy,
Providence College
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4B.
Chair/Discussant:
D. Gene Pace, Claflin University
Reuters and the Economics of Information
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, University of Cambridge
Does Culture Matter?
Entrepreneurial Attitudes in 20th Century Business Leaders'
Autobiographies in Finland and the United States,
Heli Valtonen, University of Jyväskylä |
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FRIDAY APRIL 27, 2003
SESSION FIVE
8:30
a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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5A.
Chair/Discussant: Sanjay Paul, Elizabethtown College
Mad Money in Historical
Perspective
Janice Traflet,
Bucknell
The Structure of Innovation in the U.S. Personal Finance Industry, 1870-1930
R. Daniel Wadhwani,
University of the Pacific
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5B.
Chair/Discussant: Silvano
Wueschner, Air University
Big Business and &armament in the
Third Reich: International Networks, Technology Transfers and
Synthetic Raw Materials Before the Second World War
Neil Forbes, Coventry University
Rivals of a Kind: the Anglo-American
Commercial Aviation Rivalry, 1939-45
Erik Benson, Cornerstone
University
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5C.
Chair/Discussant: Lynne Pierson- Doti, Chapman University
On the Foundation of the
Bank of England: A Mechanism for Showing Trust
Der-Yuan Yang, Kaohsiung First
University of Science & Technology
Organizational Flexibility and Governance in a Civil-Law
Regime: Scottish Partnership Banks During the Industrial
Revolution.
Charles
Hickson, Queen's University, Belfast
Macroeconomic Stability of Centrali1t!d and
Decentralized Exchange: Anthropological and Historical Data
James P. Stodder,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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FRIDAY APRIL 25, 2003
SESSION SIX
10:30
a.m. -12:00
p.m.
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6A.
Chair/Discussant: Jochen Streb, University of Hohenheim
The Essence to
Fly High: The Suro9 of Aircraft Frame Industry Catch Up
Takashi Kanatsu, Hofstra University
Technology and Knowledge Transfer
in the Machine Tool Industry -- The United States and Germany,
1870-1933
Ralf Richter, Bielefeld University
Academic Science and the Birth of
Industrial Research Laboratories in the U.S. Pharmaceutical
Industry
Jeffrey Furman, Boston
University
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6B.
Chair/Discussant: Jason Taylor, Central Michigan University
Economic History in the Age of
Wikis and iPods: Is It Time to Adopt Pedagogy from a~
Alternate Universe?
Wade
Shilts, Luther College
Are Business Historians
Quantitatively Illiterate? Jan Eloranta, Appalachian State
University
Jan Ojala, University of Jyväskylä
How to Incorporate Economic
History into Economics Courses?
Dan Giedeman, Grand Valley State
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6C
Chair/Discussant: Erik Benson, Cornerstone University
Government Intervention and the Decline of
British Shipbuilding 1964-1973
Duncan Philip
Connors, University of Glasgow
Railroad Abandonment: The Legalities
and the Results Richard D.
Stone, Shippensburg University :Michael Landry, Northeastern
State University
Does Concentration Matter?
John Phelan, University of New Haven
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003
SESSION
EIGHT: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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7A.
Chair/Discussant: Roberto Mazzoleni, Hofstra University
Technological Leadership in the
Antebellum United States
Ross Thomson, University of Vermont
Technological Creativity and
Cheap Labour? Explaining the Growing International
Competitiveness of German Mechanical Engineering before World
War I
Jochen Streb, University of
Hohenheim
Gentlemen and
Mechanics, Start your Engines!
Paul Christensen, Hofstra University
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7B.
Chair/Discussant: Ranjit S. Dighe,
State University of New York: - Oswego
Reevaluating
the Indian New Deal: An Econometric Analysis Matthew T. Gregg, Roger Williams
University
The Elimination of the National
Debt and the Failure of John Quinry Adams's Administration
Carl Lane, Felician
College
Spillover E.ffects and Per Capita
Spending on Public Capital: Shedding light on the Small
Population State Bias during the New Deal
Jason Taylor, Central Michigan
University
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7C.
Chair/Discussant: James Stitt, High
Point University
The Ineffable Intractability of
Income Inequality or –
Why You Still Make More Money Than I Make
Thomas R.
Winpenny, Elizabethtown College
The End of History -- or the End of Globalization? An
Appraisal of the
Washington Consensus
Sanjay Paul, Elizabethtown College
Latin American Immigration: A
Qualitative Approach to the Estimation of Net Benefits
Magdalena Rappl, Tennessee
Technological University
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SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003
SESSION
NINE: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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8A Chair/Discussant:
Roberto Mazzoleni, Hofstra University
Indian Railwqys and Famine 1875-1914: Magic Wheels and
Empty Stomachs
Stuart Sweeney, Oxford University
A Postwar History of the Economic
Environment and Interests That Influenced Global Trade Talks
Ralph O. Gunderson,
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Denise Robson, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
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8B.
Chair/Discussant: Janice Traflet,
Bucknell University
Baltimore's M.S. Levy and Sons:
Straw Hat Makers to the World, 1870-1960
Jessica Elfenbein, University of
Baltimore
Getting Back to the Basics: A
Brief History of the JC. Penney Company
Mark Gardner, Piedmont College
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8C.
Chair/Discussant: Silvano Wueschner, Air University
The
Business Press and Prohibition in the United States
Ranjit S. Dighe, State University of
N ew York - Oswego
Victor Betger's Dangerous Ideas:
Censoring the Mail to Preserve National SecuritY During World
War I
Philip Glende,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Social Security - Solvent or Bankrupt? In Need of
Reconstruction or Retirement?
Gilbert L. Mathis, Murray
State University
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