THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2003

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

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

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

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003

SESSION TWO: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00  p.m.

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

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

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2003

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

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

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

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 Taylor, Eastern Kentucky University

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003

SESSION FOUR: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

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

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

FRIDAY APRIL 27, 2003

SESSION FIVE  8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

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

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

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

FRIDAY APRIL 25, 2003

SESSION SIX  10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

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

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 University

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

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003

SESSION EIGHT: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

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

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

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2003

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

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

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

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