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Economic
and Social History at Oxford:
Seminars and Special Lectures, 2004–2005
2004–2005Michaelmas Term
Michaelmas Term 2004 SeminarsSeminar in Economic and Social HistoryThe Seminar meets on Tuesdays at 5pm in the Wharton Room, All Souls College Convenors: Professor Robert Allen, Dr Knick Harley, Professor Jane Humphries, Professor Avner Offer Week 1 (12 October) Week 2 (19 October): Week 3 (26 October) Week 4 (2 November) Week 5 (9 November) Week 6 (16 November): Week 7 (23 November) Week 8 (30 November)
Michaelmas Term 2004 Special LecturesNUFFIELD COLLEGE, 5 November 2004 HISTORY, THE ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH Programme
WORLD HISTORY 18 November, 5.30pm in Lecture Room 2, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane "Globalization's Sixteenth-Century Birth: the silver trade in East Asia" by Convener: Dr. J.B. Lewis
Michaelmas Term 2004 WorkshopsHistory of Childhood WorkshopsGraduate Workshop in Economic and Social HistorySeminar Room, Nuffield College, on Thursdays at 12.45 pm
Hilary term 2005 SeminarsSeminar in Economic and Social HistoryTime: Tuesday 5 pm Convenor: Dr Knick Harley Week 1 (18 January 2005) Week 2 (25 January) Week 3 (1 February) Week 4 (8 February) Week 5 (15 February) Week 6 (22 February) Week 7 (1 March) Week 8 (8 March)
Hilary Term 2005 Special LecturesSociety, Environment, and Economy in Soviet and Post-Soviet RussiaConvenors Dr Carol Leonard and Dr Judith Pallot, for Russian and East European Graduate Studies and St Antony's College: Monday 17 January 2005 at 5pm in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College Professor Robert Allen (Nuffield College): From Farm to FactoryClarendon Lectures in Management StudiesOrganized by Oxford University Press and the Saïd Business School Professor Leslie Hannah (University of Tokyo):
The first lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. All lectures take place at the Saïd Business School, Park End Street, and are open to the public. Admission free European Studies Centre, St Antony's College:
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Week 1 20 January |
‘How did the British stock market treat industry? Evidence from Initial Public Offerings on the London Stock Exchange over the twentieth century’ David Chambers, London School of Economics & Political Sciences |
| Week 2 27 January |
‘Decompositions of changes in poverty and in inequality: Argentina 1992/2002’ Florencia Lopez Boo, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford |
| Week 3 3 February |
‘Locating the industrial revolution: the microhistorical approach’
Rhiannon Thompson, Oxford Brookes University |
| Week 4 10 Feburary |
‘Economic Liberals and Economic Girlie-Men: Policy in 1980s Britain’ |
| Week 5 17 February |
‘Revisiting Africa's failed industrialisation strategies: the impact of economic realities’
Miatta Fahnbulleh, London School of Economics & Political Sciences |
| Week 6 24 February |
‘Working-Class Diet and the Emergence of Obesity in Scotland: Survey of Dietary Food Intakes in 1902 and 2002’ Annina Burns , New College, University of Oxford |
| Week 7 3 March |
‘Child abandonment, poverty and family formation in eighteenth-century Yorkshire’ |
| Week 8 10 March |
‘The Lebanese of Ghana: aliens, strangers, foreigners, sojourners or Ghanaians?’ |
Students and academics of all disciplines are welcomed. The Workshop provides researchers with an opportunity to present their work in a friendly and relaxed environment. Papers are normally ‘work in progress’ rather than polished pieces. A short presentation of approximately 20 minutes is followed by discussion and questions. A free sandwich lunch is provided.
Inquiries to: Tommy E. Murphy
Trinity Term 2005 Seminars
Seminar in Economic and Social History
Time: 5.00pm on Wednesdays
Place: Seminar Room 2, All Souls College
Convenors: Professor Robert Allen, Dr Knick Harley, Professor Jane Humphries, and Professor Avner Offer
Week 1 (27 April)
Dr Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh):
'Colonial Merchants and the Glorious Revolution'
Week 2 (4 May): No seminar
Week 3:
11 May: No seminar, to allow participants to attend
Professor Douglass North (Washington University, St. Louis):
‘New Approaches to Political Economy’
in the Examination Schools at 5.00pm13 May: Hicks Lecture
Prof. Peter Lindert (University of California at Davis):
‘Is the Welfare State Mortal or Exportable?’
in the Examination Schools at 5.00pm
[Prof. Lindert will also be talking to the Graduate Workshop,
Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College, on Thursday 12 May at 12.45]
Week 4 (18 May)
Dr Jean-Pascal Bassino (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo):
‘Regional Inequality in Japan, 1892–1941: The Relation between Stature and Income Further Explored’
Week 5 (25 May)
Dr Sheila Johanssen (Cambridge Group for the History of Population):
‘The Origins of Health Inequality’
Week 6 (1 June)
Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge):
‘The Development of Agrarian Capitalism in England 1600–1851’
Trinity Term 2005 Special Lectures
Hicks Lecture, 2005
"Is the Welfare State Mortal or Exportable?"
Peter H. Lindert (University of California - Davis)
Friday 13 May, Examination Schools, 5pm
Abstract There is no clear net GDP cost of high tax-based social spending on GDP, despite a tradition of assuming that such costs are large. The paper starts by offering five keys to this "free lunch" puzzle. First, the costly forms of transfers usually imagined have not been practiced by real-world welfare states. Second, better tests confirm that the usually imagined costs would be felt only if policy had strayed out of sample, away from any actual historical experience. Third, the tax strategies of high-budget welfare states are more pro-growth and less progressive than has been realized. Fourth, the work disincentives of social transfers are so designed as to shield GDP from much reduction if any. Finally, we return to some positive growth and well-being benefits of the high social transfers, and suggest how democratic cost control relates to budget size.The free lunch finding helps us understand what has happened to Europe's welfare states since they were so broadly attacked in the 1980s. The overall OECD experience with social transfers since the 1980s shows no overall decline in the welfare state. That experience does suggest that the inexorable rise of the elderly share of the population will depress the relative disposable income of the elderly. It will not, however, lower their absolute real income, nor will it lower any category of social transfers as a share of GDP. Thus the burden on taxpayers will stay much the same.
In addition to these OECD-wide findings, I interpret the recent adjustments in pensions and other social transfers in the Second and Third Worlds. History helps here, by contrasting the basis for social spending in the European past with its determinants in transition and developing economies today. The more prosperous of the formerly communist countries will continue to be welfare states. In the Third World, certain countries will drift toward generous and egalitarian transfers as their populations age. But political voice is the key if they are to reverse the regressivity of much of their current social spending.
Inaugural Lecture of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
(in affiliation with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford and in collaboration with
the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences at Washington University in St Louis)
Professor Douglass North (Nobel-Prize winning economist):
New Approaches to Political Economy
Trinity Term 2005 Workshops
Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History, Trinity term 2005
Thursdays at 12.45 pm in the Seminar Room, Nuffield College
Week 1 (28 April)
Matthias Ederer (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
‘Political Cycles and the Stock Market: Presidential and Prime Minister Puzzles’
Week 2 (5 May)
Anne Murphy (University of Leicester):
‘“How go the stocks?”: In search of London's first financial markets’
Week 3 (12 May) Peter Lindert ( University of California, Davis): ‘Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs since 1960: (this talk will take place at the Large Lecture Room) |
Week 4 (19 May)
Nicola Sheldon (Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford):
‘Policing Truancy, 1880–1918’
Week 5 (26 May)
Rachael Vorberg-Rugh (Queen's College, University of Oxford):
'Employers and workers: the conflicting identities of co-operators over women's wages, 1906–1918'
Week 6 (2 June)
Tommy E. Murphy (Nuffield College, University of Oxford):
‘Why Did France Lead the Fertility Decline in Modern Europe? Findings from a Panel Study of French Départements’
Students and academics of all disciplines are welcomed. The Workshop provides researchers with an opportunity to present their work in a friendly and relaxed environment. Papers are normally ‘work in progress’ rather than polished pieces. A short presentation of approximately 20 minutes is followed by discussion and questions. A free sandwich lunch is provided.
Inquiries to: Tommy E. Murphy
Ancient History/Archaeology Seminar
The Roman Economy: Archaeology and History
Prof. A.K. Bowman and Prof. A.I. Wilson
Tuesdays at 5.00pm
in Seminar Room B, the Classics Centre, Old Boys' School, George St.
26 April: Prof. A.K. Bowman: Quantifying the Roman economy
3 May: Prof. M.G. Fulford: Approaches to the late Roman urban economy in the west
10 May: Mr N. Purcell: The archaeology of agrarian change in Roman Italy
17 May: Prof. E.Fentress: Romanizing the Berbers. Economy as a precondition of identity
24 May: Dr Jeremy Paterson: The emperor as economic agent: policies, programmes and progress
31 May: Prof. Dominic Rathbone: Economic growth and consumerism in Roman Egypt
7 June: Dr Janet DeLaine: The economics of construction: pros and cons
14 June:Prof. A.I. Wilson: The metal supply of the Roman empire