The Newsletter of the Association EHA

San Jose, CA Editor Michael Haupert No. 39 December 2016

Economic History Association, c/o Price Fishback, Executive Director University of Arizona, Department of Economics, Box 210108, Tucson, AZ 85721-0108

The 2017 EHA Meetings: Macroeconomic Regimes and Policies: the Quest for Economic and Financial Stability and Growth The Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association will be held September 15 -17, 2017, in San Jose, . The theme for EHA 2017 is “Macroeconomic Regimes and Policies: the Quest for Economic and Financial Stability and Growth.” Beginning in the second half of the twentieth century, economic historians began to explore macroeconomic history, creating a vast new realm for research. This year the conference will be devoted to this continuing development inviting institutional, narrative, theoretical and empirical research in macroeconomic history. Topics of interest are wide ranging including: the history and origins of monetary, fiscal and financial institutions and markets; monetary and exchange rate regimes (specie, fiat); fiscal regimes; the history of central banks and monetary policy; and the relationship between macroeconomic regimes and policy in causing or correcting major economic and financial disturbances (depressions, recessions, inflations, deflations and financial crises) as well as influencing economic growth. The studies could be comparative, country specific or global. The Program Committee (Christopher M. Meissner, UC Davis (chair), together with Carola Frydman (Northwestern University), Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College) and Dave Donaldson (Stanford University) welcomes submissions on all subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that fit the theme of the conference. Papers should be submitted individually, but authors may suggest to the Committee that three particular papers fit well together in a panel. Papers should in all cases be works in progress rather than accepted or published work. Submitters should let the program committee know at the time of application if the paper they are proposing has already been submitted for publication. Individuals who presented or co-authored a paper given at the 2016 meeting are not eligible for inclusion in the 2017 program. For more information refer to the Call for Papers on the EHA website. The submission system is now open: http://eh.net/eha/2017-eha-meeting-proposal/. The deadline is January 31, 2017. Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting. The Association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special graduate student dinner. Pre-Registration will open on June 1, 2017.

1 Papers and session proposals should be submitted online. Paper proposals should include a 3-5 page proposal and a 150-word abstract suitable for publication in the Journal of Economic History. Papers should be submitted by January 31, 2017 to ensure consideration. Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting. The Association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special graduate student dinner. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress. Applications for the poster session are due no later than May 21, 2017 online on the meetings website. The poster submission system will open on March 1, 2017. The dissertation session, convened by Lisa Cook (Michigan State) and Claude Diebolt (Strasbourg University), will honor six dissertations completed during the 2016-2017 academic year. The submission deadline is May 15, 2017. The Alexander Gerschenkron and Allan Nevins prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on non-North American and North American topics respectively. Dissertations must be submitted as a single PDF file. Files of less than 5 MB in size may be sent directly to the conveners as an email attachment. To submit a file over 5 MB, please supply a download link in an email message. Gerschenkron prize submissions should be emailed to [email protected] and the Nevins prize submissions to [email protected]. All submissions will be acknowledged by return email.

San Jose 1858 2017 Clio and EHA sessions at ASSA Table of Contents January 6, 2017, 10:15 am

2017 EHA meetings ...... 1 Hyatt Regency Chicago, Horner 2017 ASSA sessions ...... 2 Persistence, Adaptation, and Survival in EHA grants and prizes ...... 4 Economic History EHA 2016 recap ...... 9 Organizer: Melissa Dell (Harvard) Business meeting ...... 12 Chair: Melissa Dell (Harvard) Committee membership ...... 14 Discussants: Camilo Garcia-Jimeno (University Past presidents of EHA ...... 16 of ), Melissa Dell (Harvard), Fifty years ago in the JEH ...... 19 Nancy Qian (Northwestern), Noam Yucthman Conference announcements ...... 21 EHA and Clio Sessions at the 2015 (UC Berkeley) ASSAList of Meetingsdonors ...... in Boston ...... 24 Papers:

2 Carlos Eduardo Hernandez (UCLA), Discussants: Douglas Puffert (Gordon College), “Adaptation and Survival in the Brewing Nicolas Ziebarth (University of Iowa), Francois Industry during Prohibition” Velde (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Miguel Angel Carpio (Universidad de Piura) Kirsten Wandschneider (Occidental College) and Maria Eugenia Guerrero (Universidad de Papers: Piura), “Migration as a Channel of Persistence Daniel P. Gross (Harvard), “The Ties that Bind: of the Effects of Peru's Mining Mita: What Railroad Gauge Standards and Internal Trade in Surnames May Reveal” the 19th Century U.S.” Melanie Meng Xue (UCLA), “High-Value Gilbert Cette (Bank of France and Aix-Marseille Work and the Rise of Women: The Cotton University), Remy Lecat (Bank of France), and Revolution and Gender Equality in China” Antonin Bergeaud (London School of Cong Liu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), “The Role of Production Factor Economics), “Political Groups and the Impact Quality and Technology Diffusion in 20th of Civil Wars on Local Economy in Early- Century Productivity Growth” Twentieth Century China” Michela Giorcelli (UCLA) and Petra Moser January 6, 2017, 12:30 pm (NYU and NBER), “Copyright and Creativity: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Horner Evidence from Italian Operas” Method and Question in Economic History Alexander Donges (University of Mannheim), Organizer: Melissa Dell (Harvard) Jean-Marie A. Meier (London Business School), and Rui C. Silva (London Business School), Chair: Melissa Dell (Harvard) “The Impact of Institutions on Innovation” Discussants: Rick Hornbeck (University of January 7, 2017, 10:15 am Chicago), Kyle Meng (UC Santa Barbara), Suresh Naidu (Columbia) Hyatt Regency Chicago, Horner Papers: Topics in the History of Money and Banking Carl Kitchens (Florida State University) and Organizer: Elyce Rotella (University of Taylor Jaworski (Queens University), “National Michigan) Policy for Regional Development: Evidence Chair: Carola Frydman (Northwestern) from Appalachian Highways” Discussants: Gary Gorton (Yale), Joshua Keith Meyers (University of Arizona), “In the Hausman (University of Michigan), Larry Neal Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud: Nuclear (University of Illinois), Martha Olney Testing, Radioactive Fallout and Damage to (University of California-Berkeley) U.S. Agriculture” Papers: Sam Williamson (MeasuringWorth.com), David C. Wheelock (Federal Reserve Bank of “Relative Value Significance” St. Louis) and Mark Carlson (Bank for January 7, 2017, 8:00 am International Settlements and Federal Reserve Board), “Did the Founding of the Federal Hyatt Regency Chicago, Horner Reserve Affect the Vulnerability of the Sources of Innovation, Creativity, and Interbank System to Systemic Risk?” Productivity Growth Tadeusz Gwiazdowski (University of Organizer: Elyce Rotella (University of Manchester) and George Chouliarakis (Ministry Michigan) of Finance, Greece), “Regime Change and Chair: Joel Mokyr (Northwestern) Recovery in 1930s Britain”

3 Matthias Morys (University of York), “Greece's Claude Diebolt (France National Centre for Fundamental Problem with Monetary Unions: Scientific Research) and Michael Haupert Past and Present” (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), “A Steven Sprick Schuster (Colgate) and Elisabeth Cliometric Counterfactual: What if there had Perlman (Boston University), “Who Used Postal been neither Fogel nor North?” Savings?” Deirdre McCloskey (University of Illinois- January 7, 2017, 12:30 pm Chicago), “What Fogel and North got (Spectacularly) Right, and What they Got Hyatt Regency Chicago, Horner (Modestly) Wrong” Linking and Inter-generational Mobility Lee Alston (Indiana), “Douglass North, Organizer: Elyce Rotella (University of Cliometrics, and the New Institutional Michigan) Economics: Continuity or Divergence?” Chair: Joe Ferrie (Northwestern) Robert Margo (Boston University), “Cliometrics Discussants: Robert Margo (Boston and Econometrics” University), Katherine Eriksson (University of Cliometric Society and EHA Reception California-Davis), Kris Inwood (University of Guelph) January 7, 2017, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Papers: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Gold Coast Room Tin Cheuk Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and John T. Dalton (Wake Forest University) “Slavery and Subsequent Intergenerational Mobility” Xing Liu (University of Arizona) and Price Fishback (University of Arizona), “The Effects of the New Deal on the Labor Markets” Martha Bailey (University of Michigan) and Morgan Henderson (University of Michigan), “How Do Alternative Linking Methods Perform?” The St. Claire Club Other Sessions of Interest: EHA Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes January 7, 2017 The EHA supports research in economic history Hyatt Regency Chicago, Crystal A through multiple grant programs. Most of these Cliometrics in Historical Perspective: In are administered by the Committee on Research Remembrance of and Douglass in Economic History (CREH) and one by the North Annual Meetings Program Committee. Organizer: Claude Diebolt (French National All applicants for or recipients of an EHA Centre for Scientific Research) grant or prize must be members of the Association, and all application materials Chair: Claudia Goldin (Harvard) must be submitted electronically. To join, go Discussants: Sumner La Croix (Hawaii), Joel online to http://eh.net/eha/membership where Mokyr (Northwestern), John Wallis (Maryland), you can use our online shopping cart to most (Rochester) efficiently join the EHA. You can also join by Papers: printing out a membership form at the membership site and sending it in with a check

4 or credit card. All applications must be made on other individual contributions, this fellowship line at http://eh.net/eha/grants-and-fellowships/. honors the major contributions of Kenneth Arthur H. Cole Grants in Aid: The Committee Sokoloff to economic history, and in particular on Research in Economic History awards Arthur his care and concern for the many students he H. Cole grants-in-aid to support research in introduced to economic history. economic history, regardless of time period or Please direct any questions about these geographic area. Awards typically are in fellowships to Professor Dan Fetter, chair, amounts up to $5,000, although higher amounts Committee on Research in Economic History, may be awarded in exceptional cases. at [email protected]. Applicants must be members of the Association Applicants are asked to submit a CV, a project and must hold the Ph.D. degree. Preference is description and two letters of reference (one of given to recent Ph.D. recipients. Please direct which should be from the dissertation any questions about these grants to Professor committee chair). Please note that where the Dan Fetter, Committee on Research in application asks for a five page project Economic History, [email protected]. description, this is to be double spaced with at DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 1, least one inch margins on all sides and font size 2017. Awards announced by March 22, 2017. no less than 11 point. The following three programs are for those who DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: January have not yet received the Ph.D. degree: 15, 2017. Awards announced by February 28, Graduate Dissertation Fellowships: 2017. Students with approved topics and making Exploratory Travel and Data Grants: progress towards completion are eligible for Exploratory Travel and Data Grants are early Dissertation Fellowships. Students at early stage grants for doctoral students writing a stages of dissertation development are not dissertation in economic history. They provide eligible for fellowship support. Funds awarded funding for specific research purposes (for during this application cycle are intended to example, visiting archives, data transcription, or provide support during the 2017-18 academic purchase of microfilm or CD-ROMs) and in year. Applicants must be members of the most instances will not exceed $2,500. They are Association, and dissertation fellowships are not nonrenewable, but recipients are eligible to renewable. Only one application needs to be apply subsequently for a Graduate dissertation filed to be eligible to receive one of three types fellowship (see above). of dissertation fellowships. Please direct any questions about these grants to There are three types of Awards: Professor Dan Fetter, Committee on Research in EHA Graduate Fellowships ($10,000) Economic History, [email protected]. Applicants must be current members of the Cambridge University Press Dissertation Association. Please note that where the Fellowship ($10,000) This award is made possible through an endowment created through application asks for a three page project a partnership between Cambridge University description, this is to be double spaced with at Press and the Economic History association least one inch margins on all sides and font size signaling a commitment to the development of no less than 11 point. This includes references the future leaders of the field, whose research you cite. will direct the study of economic history You file one application for the Pre-Dissertation throughout the world. Exploratory Grants. Two recipients will receive Sokoloff Fellowship ($15,000) Thanks to a the Cambridge University Press Pre- generous gift from Ken Sokoloff’s estate and Dissertation Exploratory Grants, which are

5 funded by an endowment created by Cambridge Graduate students interested in attending the University Press and the Economic History annual meeting but not participating in the Association to demonstrate both organizations’ poster session are eligible, depending on commitment to the development of the future funding availability, for up to three nights’ leaders of the field, whose research will direct complimentary hotel room (double occupancy, the study of economic history throughout the shared with another graduate student). Send world. requests to Jari Eloranta at DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: January [email protected]. Applicants must be 15, 2017. Awards announced by February 28, members of the Association. Deadline: July 6, 2017. 2017. Awards announced by July 27, 2017. Questions about the poster session should be Annual Meetings Travel and Hotel Subsidies: directed to Professor Chris Meissner, chair of Poster Session the program committee at Intended for disseminating preliminary results [email protected]. Ph.D. recipients from graduate thesis work. Those accepted selected for the dissertation session will receive receive the following support: a travel subsidy. See procedures for applying for ▪ Travel subsidies up to $500 for domestic the Nevins or Gerschenkron prizes. flights or train fare, up to $800 for international Conditions of Support: flights All recipients of EHA fellowship and grant ▪ Complimentary hotel rooms, shared with support must file a short (one or two page) another graduate student, for up to three nights report on how they spent their money and how it ▪ 60 percent discount on the registration fee facilitated their research. This report should be ▪ 80 percent discount on Saturday Presidential filed by August 31st of the year subsequent to Banquet receipt of the funds and can be sent as an email ▪ Free dinner with other graduate students attachment to Professor Dan Fetter, Committee Friday night of the conference on Research in Economic History, [email protected]. Applicants will need to provide a 250 word abstract, a current CV, and request a letter of Prizes support from their dissertation advisor. Poster The EHA recognizes excellence in research, sessions are intended for those in the process of publication, and teaching of economic history pursuing their Ph.D. degree. DEADLINE FOR by awarding several annual and biennial prizes APPLICATIONS: May 22, 2017. Awards at the President’s Awards Banquet during the announced by June 22, 2017. annual meetings. The EHA web site and the Graduate students who have presented a poster EHA newsletter include Calls for Nominations are eligible for the dissertation session in a and submission information at the following subsequent year, but may present a poster link http://eh.net/eha/prizes/. session only once during their graduate career. Dissertation Awards If a student applies both for the dissertation The Nevins and Gerschenkron prizes are session and to present a poster, and the awarded annually for the best dissertations on student is accepted to be part of the dissertation North-American and non-North American session, a prior invitation to present a poster that topics completed during the previous year. Six year will be withdrawn. Participating in the finalists, three for each award, will be chosen to poster session does not preclude submitting a present dissertation summaries at the paper and having it accepted for the regular Association’s annual meetings each fall. program the following year. Finalists will receive funds to defray travel

6 expenses and award recipients receive a cash Professor Claude Diebolt prize. University of Strasbourg Scholars submitting a dissertation may not in [email protected] the same year submit a proposal to the general program that is part of or derived from the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in dissertation. On an exception basis the Teaching Economic History: The annual Association will allow a two year window Jonathan Hughes Prize is awarded to recognize following thesis completion for submission. excellence in teaching economic history. Eligibility: Those who received their Ph.D. Jonathan Hughes was an outstanding scholar between June 1, 2016 and May 30, 2017 are and a committed and influential teacher of eligible and invited to submit their dissertation economic history. The prize includes a $1,200 for consideration. All candidates for these cash award. The winner is selected by the EHA prizes must be members of the Economic Committee on Education and Teaching. The History Association. Dissertations submitted deadline for entries is April 1, 2017. for consideration must be in English. The Committee on Education of the Economic Submission of a dissertation implies that History Association invites nominations for the candidates are prepared to attend the meetings annual Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in 2017 meetings in San Jose, CA. Presentation of Teaching Economic History. Letters of a dissertation summary is required by all nomination should state what qualities of finalists. excellence the candidate’s teaching of economic To be considered for these prizes completed history has embodied. The strength of the dissertations must be submitted by email on or nominating letter will be the primary basis for before May 15, 2017. Submissions of more selecting the pool of finalists for the prize. After than 5MB should be sent as a download link arriving at a short list of finalists, the committee rather than an attachment. Notices announcing will gather further supporting information. the selection of finalists will be sent to all Anyone is eligible to write a letter of candidates by July 15, 2017. nomination. Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in Letters of nomination should be sent to: U.S. or Canadian Economic History completed Professor Katharine Shester during the previous year is awarded annually by Washington and Lee University the Economic History Association. The award Huntley Hall is made on behalf of Columbia University Press. Lexington, VA 24450 Please send submitted dissertations to: [email protected] Professor Lisa Cook Other members of the committee are: Michigan State University Professor Karen Clay [email protected] Carnegie Mellon University Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Best Heinz College Dissertation in the economic history of an area 5000 Forbes Avenue outside of the or Canada Pittsburgh, PA 15213 published during the preceding year. The [email protected] Alexander Gerschenkron Prize in Economic Professor Larry Neal History is awarded annually by the EHA. 3070 Lane Woods Court Please send submitted dissertations to: Columbus, OH 43221 [email protected]

7 Publication Awards Hamilton, NY 13346-1398 The Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize [email protected] The Alice Hanson Jones Prize is awarded every Professor Peter Rousseau other year for an outstanding book in North Vanderbilt University American (including Caribbean) economic Box 1819, Station B history. It will be presented at the Association’s Nashville, TN 37235 annual meeting in September of 2018. This [email protected] $1,200 prize is awarded biennially and alternates with the Gyorgy Ranki Prize for a Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize book in European economic history. The Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize is awarded Eligibility and Nominations: Only books every other year for an Outstanding Book on the published in English during 2016 or 2017 are Economic History of Europe. eligible for the 2018 prize. The author need not be a member of the Association. Authors, DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2017 publishers, or anyone else may nominate books. The Ranki Prize was established by the Authors or publishers should send a copy of the Economic History Association in 1989 to honor book, plus a curriculum vitae of the author(s), the late Gyorgy Ranki, a distinguished with current information on addresses and Hungarian economic historian who taught in telephone numbers, to each member of the both Hungary and the United States. The Ranki committee. Prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2018 book in European economic history and is in the amount of $1,200. It alternates with the Alice Selection Committee: Hanson Jones Prize for a book in North Professor Frank Lewis American (including Caribbean) economic Department of Economics history. Queen’s University The Ranki Prize will be awarded in September Kingston, Ontario 2017 for a book published in 2015 or 2016. To Canada K7L 3N6 be eligible, a book must be published in English [email protected] and must, in whole or in substantial part, treat Professor John Murray aspects of European economic history in any Department of Economics period from classical antiquity to the present. Rhodes College For purposes of this prize, Europe is understood 225 Buckman Hall to include European Russia as well as the 2000 N. Parkway British Isles. Books that compare European Memphis, TN 38112-1690 experience to that of other parts of the world, or Professor Claudia Olivetti that use historical information to examine Department of Economics present or anticipate future issues and trends, are Boston University also eligible as long as they pay significant 270 Bay State Road attention to European economic history. Boston, MA 02215 Nominations for the prize may be made by [email protected] authors, publishers, or anyone else. Authors of Professor Mike Haines nominated books need not be members of the Department of Economics Economic History Association. Date of Colgate University publication rather than date of copyright 13 Oak Drive determines eligibility. Translations of books published previously in a language other than

8 English are eligible in the year of publication in Professor Christophe Chamley English. Boston University Whoever nominates a book should send a copy Department of Economics of the book and the curriculum vitae of the 270, Bay State Road author(s) to each of the five members of the Boston, MA, 02215 Ranki Prize committee. email: [email protected] For 2016-17, the chair of the committee is: Professor Christopher Meissner University of California-Davis Professor Jane Humphries Faculty of History Department of Economics Oxford University 1104 SSH All Souls College 1 Shields Avenue High Street Davis, CA 95616 email: [email protected] Oxford OX1 4AL United Kingdom Professor Aldo Musachio email: [email protected] Brandeis University International Business School Other members of the committee include: 415 South Street MC 032 Professor Joseph Manning Waltham, MA 02453 Department of Classics email: [email protected] 311 Phelps Hall Yale University Arthur H. Cole Prize is awarded annually by 344 College Street the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic New Haven CT 06520-8266 History for the best article in the previous year's email: [email protected] volume of the Journal.

California’s first city, San Jose The EHA in Boulder A total of 262 economic historians, including 61 The Economic History Association met in graduate students, gathered at the Omni Boulder, Colorado from September 16-18, 2016 Interlocken for the festivities. for the first time since 1991. President Lee Financial and in-kind support for the meetings Alston chose “Economic History and Economic was provided by the University of Colorado- Development” as the theme of the 2016 Boulder, Indiana University and the Ostrom meetings. Workshop, Lee and Mary Alston, the Institute of Behavioral Science (especially Myron

9 Gutmann and Jane Menken), Cong Liu and Ecole Doctorale de Sciences Po. The final Keith Meyers (both University of Arizona), presentation was made by Reka Juhasz Lana Sooter (EHA Administrative Coordinator), (Columbia). Juhasz wrote “Temporary Global Financial Data, Cambridge University Protection, Technology Adoption and Economic Press, and Janice Jeffryes, Jessica LaRue, Development,” while at LSE. Melissa Sue Piper, and Maria Oliveras for local The Nevins Prize presentations were opened by support. Elisabeth Perlman (US Census Bureau). The Program Committee was chaired by Alan Perlman wrote her dissertation, “Connecting the Dye (Barnard), and included Richard Hornbeck Periphery: Three Papers on the Developments (Chicago), Gary Libecap (UC-Santa Barbara), caused by Spreading Transportation and Noam Yuchtman (UC-Berkeley), and Edwyna Information Networks in the Nineteenth Harris (Monash). The local arrangements Century United States,” while at Boston committee consisted of co-chairs Carol Shiue University. James Feigenbaum (Boston) and Murat Iyigun and Ann Carlos (all UC- presented “Essays on Intergenerational Mobility Boulder). and Inequality in Economic History,” which he The arrangements committee organized a wrote at Harvard. Timothy Larsen (Vanderbilt) walking tour of Boulder, a trip to Colorado closed the session by presenting his dissertation Chautauqua, and a visit to the Denver Art written at Colorado. Larsen wrote “Confederate Museum. In addition, a job market tips session Deaths and the Development of the American was organized for graduate students planning to South.” hit the job market in the near future. The program committee organized two plenary The meetings consisted of sixteen sessions sessions. Gustavo Franco, former President of featuring 48 papers, as well as the usual array of the Brazilian Central Bank, presented “Money, business meetings, topical breakfasts and Institutions and Development: Brazil’s th lunches, and the presidential address and awards Experience in the Late 20 Century” on Friday banquet. An additional 19 graduate students evening. Saturday morning was given over to a prepared posters for presentations. President roundtable discussion of “Economic History and Lee Alston delivered his address, “Beyond Economic Development.” The panelists were Institutions,” Saturday afternoon before the Gillian Hadfield (USC), Nathan Nunn dissertation sessions and the banquet. (Harvard), Christopher Udry (Yale), and The dissertation sessions were chaired by Petra Richard Hornbeck (Chicago). The discussion Moser (NYU), who convened the Gerschenkron was moderated by Alan Dye (Barnard). th Prize competition for the best dissertation on a The EHA will celebrate its 77 anniversary in non-Canadian or American topic, and Hoyt San Jose, CA from September 15-17, 2017. Bleakley (Michigan), who chaired the Nevins Awards Presented at the 2016 EHA Meetings Prize session. The Nevins Prize is awarded for The Economic History Association recognizes the outstanding dissertation written on a outstanding achievements among its Canadian or American topic. membership each year. The following awards The first finalist for the Gerschenkron Prize was were presented at the 2016 conference in Shameel Ahmad (Brandeis), who wrote his Boulder. dissertation, “Demography and Economic The Allan Nevins Prize for best dissertation in Development in Colonial South Asia,” at Yale. US or Canadian economic history was awarded Johannes Buggle (Lausanne) followed with to James Feigenbaum for his dissertation “Essays on Culture, Institutions and Long-Term “Essays on Intergenerational Mobility and Development.” Buggle earned his PhD from

10 Inequality in Economic History,” completed at year to Edward Fertik (Yale), Santiago Perez Harvard University. (Stanford), and Eduardo Montero (Harvard). The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the Pre-Dissertation Exploratory Grants, outstanding dissertation in non-U.S. or sponsored by the EHA and Cambridge Canadian history was presented to Reka University Press were awarded to 11 individuals Juhasz for her dissertation “Temporary for preliminary work on dissertations. The Protection, Technology Adoption and Economic recipients were Erin McGuire (Arizona), Development,” completed at the London School Cathrin Mohr (Munich), Aviv Derri (NYU), of Economics under the direction of Silvana Victor Gay (Chicago), Trevor Jackson (UC- Tenreyro. Berkeley), S. Wright Kennedy (Rice), Jeremy The Jonathan Hughes Prize for excellence in Land (Georgia State), Scott Miller (Virginia), teaching economic history was awarded to Samuel Milner (Yale), Maria Montalvo (Rice), Frank Lewis (Queens University). and Chenzi Xu (Harvard) The Alice Hanson Jones Prize for the The Arthur H. Cole Prize is awarded each Outstanding Book on North American year to the author(s) of the outstanding article (including Caribbean) economic history was published in the Journal of Economic History awarded to Barry Eichengreen for Hall of from September of the previous year through Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great June of the award year. The 2016 prize was Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of awarded to Werner Troesken, Brian Beach, Joe History, published by Oxford University Press Ferrie, and Martin Saavedrawere for their article in 2015. “Typhoid Fever, Water Quality, and Human The Kenneth Sokoloff Dissertation Award Capital Formation,.” published in the was presented this year to two individuals. One March 2016 issue of the Journal of Economic award went to Gillian Brunet (UC-Berkeley). History. The second recipient was Arianna Ornaghi Cole Research Grants-in-Aid for post- (MIT). Doctoral Research were awarded to Mark Dissertation Fellowships Three dissertation Anderson (Montana State), Cihan Artunc fellowships, sponsored by the EHA and (Arizona), Amanda Gregg (Middlebury), and Cambridge University Press, were awarded this Eoin McLaughlin (St. Andrews)

11 Minutes of the Business Meeting fellowship and two pre- EHA annual conference dissertation grants. e. Exploring Fund Raising September 12, 2016 Opportunities to endow the pre- 1. Call to Order by President Lee Alston. dissertation fellowships and 2. A moment of silence for members who dissertation fellowships. have died in the past year (Douglass Possible opportunities to make North, Gunnar Persson, Nathan donations with a match from the Rosenberg) EHA. 3. Election Results: Cormac O’Grada, f. Decided to pay JEH Editors President-elect; Carolyn Moehling, VP; funds that can be used either for Martha Bailey, Trustee. 458 voters as their own research or for salary. opposed to less than 200 when we doing g. Set up committee to decide how paper ballots. to form a mentoring program. 4. Executive Director’s Report (Fishback): 8. New Business Budget for 2015-16 and Proposed 9. Call for reports from affiliated Budget for 2016-7 (see below) organizations: AHA (Carlton or 5. Meeting Coordinator's Report (Eloranta) Summerhill), OAH (Rosenthal or 6. Report of the Co-Editors of the Journal Majewski), Cliometrics (Carlos), SSHA of Economic History (Carlos) (Rotella), NBER (Olmstead), ISNIE 7. President's Report (Lee Alston) (Wallis/Alston), ACLS (Raff), IEHA (Eloranta/Land), Business History a. Nominated Michael Haupert to Conference (Levenstein), ASSA stand for election to become the (Hornbeck/Dell), Econ & Bus. History Executive Director of the EHA in Society (Van Horn), Committee on 2017. Archives (Nunn), EH.Net Committee b. Board of Trustees Actions (future (Meyer) meeting sites 2017 in San Jose, 10. William Collins thanked local CA; Montreal in 2018, Looking arrangements committee Carol Shiue, for cities to host in the future). Murat Iyigun and Ann Carlos Plan to host in San Francisco in 2020 (good deal). 11. President Lee Alston thanked program committee chair Alan Dye and c. Creating New Prizes for committee members Rick Hornbeck, Providing Data Sets. Long Run Gary Libecap, Noam Yuchtman, and Prize to be Named Gallman- Edwina Harris. Parker Prize, short run prize named in honor of Claudia 12. Investiture of Mike Bordo as President Goldin and Stanley Engerman for 2015-16 d. CUP provided funds matched by 13. Adjourn EHA to endow one dissertation

12 Economic History Association Financial Report 2015-16 all amounts rounded to nearest dollar Cambridge University Press Grants 15,000 REVENUE/EXPENSES 2015-16 Editorial Offices 80,000 REVENUE Eh.Net Website 21,327 Individual Membership: 41,656 Management 58,440 Meetings 47,732 Meeting Expense 103,258 Cambridge U. Press 288,091 Membership+Goodwill 8,374 Interest & Dividends 37,564 Office & Miscellaneous 4,866 Realized Gains (losses) -3,302 Depreciation Unrealized Gains (losses) 4,964 TOTAL ORDINARY EXPENSES 345,365 Eh.Net amts from other organizations 5,251 BAL ON ORDINARY ITEMS 78,654 Contributions to prize funds 2,064 EXTRAORINDARY EXPENSES Other Revenue 41,656 Graduate Education Initiative Grants 42,500 ORDINARY REVENUES Grad. Educ. Init.: Meetings Expenses 29,103 including realized gains 424,019 TOTAL ORD + EXTRA. 416,968 including realized and unrealized gains 443,207 EXPENSES BALANCE ON ORD. + EXTRA. 26,239 EXPENSES EXTRAORDINARY REVENUE

Louis Sokoloff estate 10,000 ASSETS 7/31/15 TOTAL ORDINARY + EXTRAORIDNARY REV 453,207 Balance CASH BALANCES ORDINARY EXPENSES Checking Account (EHA Office) 336,214 Awards and Grants-in-Aid 24,100 Savings Account (EHA Office) 25,038 Sokoloff Dissertation Fellowship 30,000 Petty Cash Account (EHA Office) 4,621

13 Checking Account (Meetings Office) 11,598 Nick Ziebarth (2017) Online payment Meeting Account 2,952 Christian Dippel (2018) Suresh Naidu (2018) Morgan Stanley Account 136,037 Andrew Jalil (2019) Total in Bank and Cash Accounts 516,459 Angela Vossmeyer (2019) INVESTMENTS Price Fishback (ex officio) 269,573 U.S. Treasury Bonds and Notes Sokoloff Fellowship Mutual Funds (Vanguard) 1,689,719 Dan Fetter (CREH Chair) (2017) Investment Total 1,959,292 Jeremy Atack (2017) Total Securities and Cash 2,475,751 Phil Hoffman (2018) Investment Endowment Funds for Journal, Prizes, 1,537,000 and Fellowships Chair: Howard Bodenhorn (2018) Detail on Vanguard Holdings Eugene White (2020) Price Fishback (ex officio) 500 Index Trust 389,338 Budget and Audit Total Stock Market Index 203,674 Chair: Matt Jaremski (2019) 401,557 International Growth David Wheelock (2021) TIPS (inflation protected) 383,074 Carolyn Moehling (Vice President) (ex officio) Treasury Money Market 312,073 Cormac O’Grada (President elect) (ex officio) Ranki Prize Chair: Jane Humphries (2017) EHA Committees 2016-17 Joe Manning (2018) Nominating Christophe Chamley (2019) Chair: Lee Alston (Past President) (ex officio) Chris Meissner (2020) Bob Margo (Past Chair) (ex officio) Aldo Musachio (2021) Carolyn Moehling (Vice President) (ex officio) Jones Prize Richard Hornbeck (2017) Chair: Frank Lewis (2017) Avner Greif (2017) John Murray (2018) Eric Hilt (2017) Claudia Olivetti (2019) Price Fishback (non-voting) (ex officio) Mike Haines (2020) Membership Peter Rousseau (2021) Chair: Alexander Whalley (2017) Education in Economic History Carl Kitchens (2018) Chair: Katherine Shester (2017) Kris Mitchener (2019) Karen Clay (2018) Price Fishback (ex officio) Larry Neal (2019) Cormac O’Grada (President elect) (ex officio) Price Fishback (ex officio) Research in Economic History Research Archives and Data Bases Chair: Dan Fetter (2017) Chair: Laura Salisbury (2017)

14 Andrew Seltzer (2018) Call for Committee Members Jonathan Rose (2019) Committees play an important role in the Price Fishback (ex officio) workings of the EHA. If you are interested in being considered for membership on a The Journal of Economic History committee, please contact Price Fishback, Chair: Phil Hoffman (2017) Executive Director, at Leah Boustan (2017) [email protected], or any other Joshua Rosenbloom (2018) officer or member of the Board of Trustees. Petra Moser (2019) Officers and Trustees William Collins (advisor) President: Michael Bordo Ann Carlos (advisor) President Elect: Cormac O’Grada Price Fishback (ex officio) Executive Director: Price Fishback EHA Administration Immediate Past Presidents: Lee Alston, Chair: Werner Troesken (2017) Robert Margo, Phil Hoffman Bob Margo (Board Representative) Vice President: Carolyn Moehling Alex Field (2018) Trustees: Leah Platt Boustan, William Collins, Karen Clay, Martha Bailey Mark Carlson (2019) Editors: Ann Carlos, William Collins EHA Program Committee Chair, Budget Committee: Matt Jaremski Chair: Chris Meissner (2017) IEHA Representative: Claude Diebolt Carola Frydman (2017) Meetings Coordinator: Jari Eloranta Zorina Khan (2017) Representatives and Liaisons Dave Donaldson (2017) International Economic History Association: Jari Eloranta (ex officio) Claude Diebolt (2017), Paul Rhode (2019) Dissertation: American Council of Learned Societies: America: Lisa Cook (2017) Daniel Raff (2018) Elsewhere: Claude Diebolt (2017) NBER: Alan Olmstead (2017) Local Arrangements Allied Social Science Association: Werner Co-Chair: Alex Field (2017) Troesken (2017), Noel Maurer (2018) Co-Chair: Martha Olney (2017) American Historical Association: Bill Jari Eloranta (ex officio) Summerhill (2017), Hugh Rockoff (2018) EH.NET Executive Organization of American Historians: John Robert Whaples (2017) Majewski (2017), Peter Coclanis (2018), Cathy Matson (coordinator) Mike Haupert (2018) Cliometric Society: Ann Carlos (2017) David Jacks (2019) Business History Conference: Margaret Price Fishback (ex officio) Levenstein (2017) Jari Eloranta (ex officio) Social Science History Association: Melissa Claude Diebolt (Board Representative) Thomasson (2017) International Society for New Institutional Economics: Sumner La Croix (2017)

15 Economic and Business Historical Society: the National Archives Advisory Council from Patrick Van Horn (2017) 1968-73. AHA Fellowship for Aerospace History: Peter He was a prolific author and historian of Meyer (2017) business history. He was also a devoted archivist, serving as Northwestern University’s historian, overseer of their archives, and member of the library’s Board of Governors. Williamson was born in Piper, Kansas on March 21, 1901. The family moved to Seattle when he was a young boy, and shortly thereafter to southern California, where his father became one of the first orange growers in Orange County. Williamson earned his A.B. (1924) and M.A. (1926) degrees from the University of Southern California, where he began his academic career Past Presidents of the EHA: as a Teaching Assistant from 1924-26. At USC, Hal not only excelled in the classroom, but on Harold Williamson the field as well. He was a star on the tennis Harold Francis team, and backup quarterback on a Trojan Williamson, known as football squad that won the 1923 Rose Bowl. “Hal” to his friends He spent the 1926-27 academic year as an and colleagues, served instructor before departing for further graduate as the 13th President work at Harvard, where he served as Instructor of the Economic and Tutor from 1930-32 while completing a History Association second M.A. His instructors at Harvard from September 1964 included Edwin Gay, the first president of the to September 1966. EHA, and Abbott P. Usher. He had previously He served as an instructor at MIT during the served the EHA in a 1933-34 academic year before returning to variety of roles, Harvard through the spring 1939 semester, including program during which time a young John F. Kennedy committee chair (1943 and 1954), Vice was one of his students. He earned his Ph.D. President (1955-56), and member of the Board from Harvard in 1936, and in the fall of 1939 he of Trustees (1947-50). accepted a position as Assistant Professor at His service to economics and economic history Yale, where he remained until 1948, when he was legendary. In addition to his EHA roles, he was appointed Professor of American and was Secretary-Treasurer of the American European Economic History at Northwestern, Economic Association (1962-69), Director of where he remained until retiring in 1969. the NBER (1957-64), and a member of the His retirement did not last long, however. He editorial boards of the Business History Review accepted a visiting position at the University of (1958-64) and Explorations in Economic Delaware from 1970-73 and a summer lecture History (1962-69). He was a founding member position in Kyoto in 1971. At the same time he of the Business History Conference, and served was Senior Resident Scholar at Eleutherian as its third President. He was also a member of Mills Hagley Foundation from 1971-73.

16 Williamson returned to Northwestern in 1973 to showing how the discovery of oil in western direct the Northwestern University History Pennsylvania around 1859 set off a series of Project, in celebration of the university’s 125th events that helped the industry prosper well into anniversary. In this capacity he convinced the the 20th century, and even gives insight as to university to substantially upgrade its archives. why Williamson believed the industry would Williamson retired from Northwestern for the continue to do well. The structure of the second, and final, time in 1983 when he and his petroleum industry was a theme that he would wife Arline, moved to Sarasota, where he return to in later works. resided until his death on October 25, 1989. He Williamson also served as editor for two was survived by his wife of nearly sixty years, important works on the general topic of and two sons, Harold Francis Williamson, Jr., economic growth. The first was The Growth of and Samuel H. Williamson, who both became the American Economy, published in 1944 by Professors of Economics. Sam carried on the Prentice Hall. This impressive and wide- economic history mantle, co-founding the ranging volume, which includes 32 chapters Cliometric Society with D. N. McCloskey. covering nearly 800 pages by some of the In the preface to The Growth of the American leading economic historians of the time, covered Economy, published in 1944, Williamson topics ranging from agriculture, transportation, championed the role of economic historians as and manufacturing to labor, trade, and industrial promoting a clearer understanding of how man’s organization. Williamson contributed two struggle for natural existence was carried on chapters himself, including one on the nature of throughout time. He practiced what he preached the economic history discipline. The work is for the rest of his career. organized by periods of American history Williamson was perhaps best known for his delineated roughly by century, from colonialism extensive research on American business to the First World War. A decade later, he and history. His first book, with Arthur Cole, John Buttrick edited Economic Development: covered the American carpet industry. Principles and Patterns, the first textbook in the Winchester, the Gun that Won the West, then burgeoning field of economic development. published in 1952, was Williamson’s second This work deals with what were then the business history. It established his pattern of contemporary problems of economic history. focusing on specific industries as a way to In 1990 the Business History Conference paid explore the growth and development of the tribute to Williamson with the establishment of American economy. A similar theme was found the Harold F. Williamson, Sr. Prize, which is in two other business histories published during awarded every two to three years to a mid- this period: Designed for Digging: The First 75 career scholar who has made significant Years of Bucyrus-Erie Company (with Kenneth contributions to the field of business history. Myers, 1955), which earned a 1957 Award of The first recipient of the prize was future EHA Merit certificate from the State Historical president Naomi Lamoreaux. Society of Wisconsin, and Northwestern Mutual In an obituary published in the Northwestern Life: A Century of Trusteeship (with Orange A. University Library newsletter in December Smalley, 1959). 1989, Patrick M. Quinn called him “more than His last book-length business history was a two just a talented scholar, but a gentleman, and a volume multi-author collaboration on the very kind, very decent and very humane petroleum industry. The first volume, published person.” And the editors of the festschrift in his in 1959, covered the years 1859-1899. Volume honor lauded him for the gentle objectivity and two appeared five years later, and covered the sense of fair play that he always brought to each 20th century. The work was important in

17 new situation, while always encouraging his With Arnold Daum, The American Petroleum students to “keep searching.” Industry the Age of Illumination 1859-1899, Selected publications: Evanston, IL: Northwestern University “Prophecies of Scarcity or Exhaustion of Press, 1959 Natural Resources in the United States,” With Ralph Andreano, et. al., The American American Economic Review 35, no. 2 (May Petroleum Industry the Age of Energy 1945), pp 97-109 1899-1959, Evanston, IL: Northwestern “An Appraisal of American Economic University Press, 1963 Progress,” American Economic Review 40, With Payson S. Wild, Northwestern University: no. 2 (May 1950), pp 107-117 A History, 1850-1975, Evanston, IL: “Management and Innovations: The Winchester Northwestern University Press, 1976 Repeating Arms Company, a Case Study,” With Michael W. Sedlak, The Evolution of Bulletin of the Business Historical Society Management Education: A History of the 25, no. 1 (March 1951), pp 1-14 Northwestern University J. L. Kellogg With Ralph Andreano, “Integration and Graduate School of Management, 1908- Competition in the Oil Industry: A Review 1983, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Article,” Journal of Political Economy 69, Press, 1983 no. 4 (August 1961), pp 381-385 Sources: “Business History and Economic History,” Business History Conference website, Journal of Economic History 2, no. 4 http://www.thebhc.org/williamson, (December 1966), pp 407-17 accessed December 2016 With Leon Moses, “The Location of Economic Cain, Louis, and Paul Uselding (eds), Business Activity in Cities,” American Economic Enterprise and Economic Change: Essays Review 57, no. 2 (May 1951), pp 211-222 in Honor of Harold F. Williamson, Kent, With Herbert Mohring, “Scale and ‘Industrial OH: Kent State University Press, 1973 Reorganization’ Economics of Transport Harold F. Williamson, Sr. (1901-1989) Papers, Improvements,” Journal of Transport Northwestern University Economics and Policy 3, no. 3 (September Sawyer, Connie, “Harold Francis Williamson, 1969), pp 251-271 Sr.,” Economics 135, Wake Forest With Arthur Cole, et. al., The American Carpet University, 1999 Manufacture, Cambridge: Harvard Williamson, Sam, email correspondence, University Press, 1941 December 2016 The Growth of the American Economy (editor), New York: Prentice Hall, 1944 Winchester, the Gun that Won the West, Washington: Combat Forces, 1952 With John A. Buttrick, Economic Development: Principles and Patterns, New York: Prentice Hall, 1954 With Orange A. Smalley, Northwestern Mutual Life: A Century of Trusteeship, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1957

18 Fifty Years Ago in the JEH: 1966 influence of the editors as the normally Volume 26 of the Journal of Economic History submitted papers, they were eliminated them was the final one edited by Douglass North and from the sample. Beginning in 1997 the journal William Parker. It closed out one era and dropped the formal connection between the launched the journal, propelled by the rise of the meetings and the journal. From the 1996 EHA “new” economic history, into another. The meetings onward, papers presented at the North-Parker editorship ushered in the era of conference were accorded no special treatment cliometric based research in economic history regarding submission or publication in the JEH. and under their leadership the JEH accelerated While the growth was not constant, the pattern the publication of cliometric style articles to a is evident. Equations, Graphs, and Tables per permanently higher level. page increased during the North-Parker years, North believed the true test of a scholar’s and while there was a decrease immediately contribution was not its popularity, but its after their tenure, during the two year reign of staying power and ability to enliven the field. In successor Hugh Aitken, the pattern resumed and order to get a sense of the impact that North and continued upward with the appointment of Parker had on the Robert Gallman. Ciometric style articles, as growth of measured by this cliometrics during proxy, had their tenure as already exhibited editors of the a modest, albeit JEH, we can look uneven, rise in the at their impact on years immediately the long run trend preceding the of the journal. North-Parker Using a simple term. The growth measure of was continued “cliometrics,” we under North and are able to see the Parker, and change in the type continued to of articles climb into the published in the next decade. JEH over the past 75 years. A measure of the transition from new to old and Douglass North and William Parker were its impact on the future direction of the appointed editors of the JEH in 1961, and held discipline can be made by looking at the the position for six years. During this time contents of the JEH. In order to gauge the period the rise of the “new” economic history impact of the North and Parker era (1961-66) was at the forefront of the discipline, and the relative to the other years, a “clio” proxy has JEH was its highest profile venue. As early been created, counting the number of graphs, practitioners of cliometrics, North and Parker equations, and tables. In order to focus on the viewed the approach favorably, and as editors impact of the editors, the Tasks issues of the were in a position to broaden its reach. Indeed, journal are not counted. From 1941-1996 one that is what they did, propelling the publication issue of each volume was dedicated to papers of clio influenced articles on a path that would delivered at the annual EHA meetings. Since lead the approach to dominance in the journal, these meetings were not under the same as well as the field.

19 All was not smooth in this transition from the to Parker in February 1966, North opined that “old” to the “new” however. Midway through “no matter how you describe what has happened their six years at the helm, North and Parker to American economic history in the last fifteen were called before the Board of Trustees, years, one thing is perfectly clear; that the trend dominated by the old guard, including Fritz is toward the use of economic analysis and the Redlich, a vocal critic of the clio movement, and development of quantitative data, and this is not forced to defend themselves against charges of going to be reversed. I think any editorship incompetence. While Parker was diplomatic, should include at least one editor who is capable North was furious, arguing that he and Parker enough to evaluate such works . . . I can think of were fair and balanced, a lot of people who might be picked as editors and did not have an with the clear result that the Association would agenda to promote the get torn to pieces. The new economic historians new economic history would simply be alienated.” methodology. He pointed Lance Davis echoed these sentiments in a letter out that in 1963 the to EHA president Hal Williamson in March acceptance rate of articles 1966, saying that “. . . if the decision is to go submitted by historians, with a single economist as editor I think the who were more likely to choice of Hugh Aitken is not a good one. use the traditional Although he might well be a person who is methodology, was actually more acceptable to the traditionalists than some higher than that for of the other obvious possibilities, I cannot William Parker almost lost economists. While the visualize him doing the same kind of innovating his editorial job momentum in the editorial work that we have come to expect.” discipline was inevitably toward cliometrics, it Ralph Hidy lobbied for Hugh Aitken by arguing was not to the exclusion of the older, more in a March 1966 letter traditional approach. Ultimately, North and to Williamson that Parker kept their positions. Aitken “had In fact, by 1966, the landscape had changed experience as an considerably, and the Board actually considered editor, is a thorough appointing North and Parker for another three scholar, and would year term. Redlich was no longer on the Board, strive to get balance having been replaced by Robert Gallman. North between historians, and Parker were not reappointed, but that did economists, and the not end the drama over the choice for the new varieties of new and editor and the future direction of the JEH. old economic history (I There was an internal struggle within the Board think).” Herman over the future direction of the JEH. On the one Krooss was less Douglass North believed clio was hand, old school economic historians like diplomatic, telling the future Herman Krooss and Ralph Hidy, pushed for a Williamson that he “could hardly think of a return to a more historical approach, and more damaging recommendation than that he favored the appointment of Hugh Aitken as solo [the new editor] is favored by the “new editor of the JEH. Predictably, North, and other economic historians.” new practitioners, including Lance Davis and The traditionalists won the battle when Hugh Parker, lobbied against the appointment of Aitken was appointed to succeed North and anyone who opposed the cliometric trend – a Parker, but as history has shown, they lost the description that certainly fit Aitken. In a letter war. Aitken remained at the helm only two

20 years before being replaced by Robert Gallman, qualitative analysis.” In his review of the book, a proponent and practitioner of the cliometric George Rogers Taylor adds, “Neither can one approach. Perhaps it was his brief tenure, or avoid making value judgments when choosing a perhaps it was the inevitability of the cliometric particular model or making an assumption. The movement, but the fears of North and the new votaries of measurement need to be reminded economic historians were not borne out. The that Fogel’s admonition may well be reversed to North-Parker years set the journal on a path of read: One cannot escape the necessity for publishing cliometric research from which it has qualitative judgments by embracing quantitative not deviated. While the occasional “old school” analysis.” With this, Taylor set out the narrative form of article has been published, it is conundrum that has vexed cliometricians ever a rarity. since: how to find the balance between North saw the 1960s as a period of massive economics and history. It is a narrow path transition in the economic history field, one that indeed, and one we are still attempting to was not to everyone’s liking, but that was follow. inevitable. The landscape was changing, and he and Parker were mere pawns in a bigger game. The Journal was getting new economic history submissions like Fogel’s railroad work on the one hand, and then articles from Fritz Redlich on the other, and both were published. However, the movement was toward an increase in the cliometric approach, and inevitably, the purely narrative style of economic history began to fade. North felt that by the end of their tenure, the question as to whether the new economic history as a method was accepted had been answered in the affirmative. It was an acceptable and accepted part of economic history. The only real question was what San Jose State Spartans 1910 football squad proportion of the field it should be. Conference Announcements By merging economic history with modern techniques, cliometrics made an indelible mark on economic history. In the process, it has driven a wedge between economists and historians. But cliometrics has not ended economic history, rather, it has elevated it. The continuing evolution of technology has made a tremendous impact on the ability of cliometricians to handle ever larger data sets, 42nd Annual Conference share them with a wider audience, and access Oklahoma City, May 25-27, 2017 new data sets that previously took a lifetime to The Economic and Business History Society create. (EBHS) is now accepting proposals for our In Railroads and American Economic Growth: 42nd Annual Conference, to be held at Essays in Econometric History, Fogel says the historic Skirvin Hotel in downtown “One cannot escape the ponderous problems of Oklahoma City. Proposals for presentations on measurement in economic history by embracing any aspect of ancient to recent economic or

21 business history are welcome, as are proposals (Central Michigan University). Conference for whole panels. We welcome submissions papers and non-conference papers alike may be from graduate students and non-academic submitted to Essays for consideration. We invite affiliates. you to visit our website, www.ebhsoc.org, to see The EBHS conference offers participants the our editorial board and policies, as well as back opportunity for intellectual interchange with an issues. international, interdisciplinary, and collegial We look forward to welcoming you to group of scholars (typically about half our Oklahoma City! participants are from economics departments and half are from history or economic history The 8th World Congress of departments). The EBHS prides itself on its openness to new members and we offer reduced Cliometrics conference fees for graduate students and early Strasbourg, July 4-7, 2017 career researchers (four years or less since doctorate earned). Our regular registration fees are reasonable, as is the cost of accommodation at the conference venue. In addition to the sessions, there will be some activities that should be of interest to all participants. The Skirvin is located next to the Bricktown section of Oklahoma City and is known for its unique shops and restaurants. Oklahoma City is also home to a world class zoo and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. There is also the opportunity to see Bricktown Ball Park and perhaps to catch We invite you to submit a paper to the 8th World a minor league game. Congress of Cliometrics that will take place in Proposals should include an abstract of no more Strasbourg, France, July 4-7, 2017. than 500 words and contact details. The The World Congress is designed to provide deadline for submission of proposals is extensive discussion of new and innovative February 15, 2017. The Program Chair will research in economic history, with an expected send a notification of acceptance of abstracts by 80-90 papers to be selected for presentation and March 1, 2017. Online registration will be discussion. available soon at www.ebhsoc.org. The World Congress website for paper Proposals may be submitted through the EBHS submissions, hotel reservations, and conference website at www.ebhsoc.org, by email to registration will open in November 2016. [email protected]. http://www.cliometrie.org/en/conferences/world If you have further questions about the meeting -congress-of-cliometrics or organization please contact Program Chair Those wishing to present a paper should provide Vincent Geloso, [email protected], an abstract and a 3-5 page summary of the or EBHS President Fred Gates, proposed paper. Submissions will be accepted [email protected]. only in electronic form. At least one author of EBHS also operates a peer-reviewed open an accepted paper must be a member of the access journal, Essays in Economic and Cliometric Society. You may join the Business History, edited by Jason Taylor

22 Cliometric Society at: http://cliometrics.org/membership.htm We particularly encourage paper proposals from graduate students. A grant from the National Science Foundation provides competitive support for travel and accommodations for students on the program. A 45 minute session is devoted to each paper, in which authors have 5 minutes to make an opening statement and the rest of the session (40 minutes) is dedicated to discussion among all conference participants in the spirit of the annual cliometric conferences. All sessions will be held at the Strasbourg Convention Centre: http://www.strasbourg- events.com/en/agenda/convention/uds-8th- world-congress-cliometrics Calendar: - Proposals due: January 29, 2017 - Authors notified of acceptance of paper: March 1, 2017 - Due date for accepted papers: April 21, 2017 - World Clio Meeting in Strasbourg: July 4-7, 2017 Funding to help support the conference is provided by the Association Française de Cliométrie, the Association Française de Science Economique, the Banque de France, the Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Cliometric Society, the National Science Foundation, the Université de Strasbourg, Private donors, Springer Verlag... Questions? Please contact [email protected] and/or [email protected]

Clio Sessions at the 2017 WEAI meetings The Cliometric Society will sponsor sessions at the Western Economic Association International annual conference in San Diego, CA June 25 - 29, 2017. Anyone interested in presenting or discussing a paper, or chairing a session, should contact Mike Haupert at [email protected].

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