Accounting for the Great Divergence

Accounting for the Great Divergence

Friday 20 Mar 2015

The University of Warwick in Venice, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
22-24 May 2014
Organiser: Stephen Broadberry (LSE and CAGE)

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PROGRAMME

Thursday 22 May:

9.00-9.15:

Welcome and Introduction

9.15-10.15:

"Accounting for the 'Little Divergence': What drove growth in pre-industrial Europe, 1300-1800"
(Sandra de Pleijt and Jan Luiten van Zanden)

10.15-11.15:

Energy Consumption in England and Italy 1560-1913: Two Pathways towards Energy Transition
(Paolo Malanima)

11.15-11.45:

Tea and Coffee

11.45-12.45:

Was Domar right? the Second Serfdom and the land-labour ratio in eighteenth-century Bohemia
(Alex Klein and Sheilagh Ogilvie)

12.45-14.30:

Lunch

14.30-15.30

Decline, stagnation, stability and growth: the experience of late-medieval Italy, Spain, England and Holland
(Bruce Campbell)

15.30-16.00

Tea and Coffee

16.00-17.00:

The heavy plough and the agricultural revolution in medieval Europe
(Thomas Andersen, Peter Jensen and Christian Skovsgaard)

17.00-18.00:

Danish Historical National Accounts
(Ingrid Henriksen, Peter Jensen and Paul Sharp)

20.00

Dinner

Friday 23 May

9.15-10.15:

Portuguese demography and economic growth 1500-1850
(Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis)

10.15-11.15:

The determinants of debasements in early modern Europe
(Ceyhun Elgin, Kivanc Karaman and Sevket Pamuk)

11.15-11.45:

Tea and Coffee

11.45-12.45:

Human Capital and industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
(Mara Squicciarini and Nico Voigtlaender)

12.45-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.30

Accounting for the Great Divergence
(Stephen Broadberry)

15.30-16.00

Tea and Coffee

16.00-17.00:

Capital Markets in China and England in the 18th and 19th century: Evidence from Grain Prices
(Wolfgang Keller, Carol Shiue and Xin Wang)

17.00-18.00:

Economic Freedom in the Long Run: Evidence from OECD Countries (1850-2007)
(Leandro Prados de la Escosura)

20.00

Dinner

Saturday 24 May:

9.15-10.15:

Regional and personal inequality in Japan, 1850-1955
(Jean-Pascal Bassino, Kyoji Fukao, Tokihiko Settsu and Masanori Takashima)

10.15-11.15:

Estimating the shares of secondary- and tertiary-sector output in the age of proto-industrialisation: the case of Japan, 1600-1874.
(Osamu Saito and Masanori Takashima)

11.15-11.45

Tea and Coffee

11.45-12.45

Understanding our past, informing our present: the GDP study of the early modern Yangzi Delta(Bozhong Li)

12.45-14.30:

Lunch

14.30-15.30

National income and productivity in China and Northwestern Europe, c. 1800-1860
(Shi Zhihong, Ni Yuping, Xuyi and Bas van Leeuwen)

15.30-16.00

Tea and Coffee

16.00-17.00

Leader, Follower, Leader, Follower, Leader: American Incomes 1650-1870
(Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson)

17.00-18.00

Oh Lord: the Great Divergence in missionary wages between Africa, America, Asia and Europe, c. 1850 to 1960
(Jutta Bolt and Jacob Weisdorf)

21.00

Dinner