Monday 31st March 2014

8.45-9.00: Registration
9.00- 9.15: Welcome Address

Political Economy of Democracies and Dictatorships

Chair: Stephen Broadberry

9.15-10.00: Mark Harrison (University of Warwick) (with Inga Zaksauskiene) "Counter-Intelligence in a Command Economy"
10.00- 10.45: Mark Dincecco (University of Michigan) "Military Conflict and the Economic Rise of Urban Europe"

10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15- 12.00: Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin) "How Britain unified Germany: 1815 and the Formation of the German Zollverein"
12.0- 12.45: Jari Eloranta and Pavel Osinsky (Appalachian State University) "Comparative Historical Analysis: Some Insights from Political Transitions of the First Half of the Twentieth Century"

12.45 - 14.00 Lunch

Chair: Tim Hatton

14.00- 14.45: Steven Nafziger (Williams College) "Decentralization, Fiscal Structure, and Local State Capacity in Late-Imperial Russia"
14.45 – 15.30: Andrei Markevich (New Economic School Moscow) "Soviet Political Economy Reconsidered: Punishment under Stalin"

15.30 - 16.00 Tea Break

War and State Formation in the Long and the Short Run
16.00- 16.45 Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick) and Debin Ma (LSE) "South Asian State Formation and Economic Development"

17.15 - 18.15: Keynote Address

Chair: Andrew Oswald

James Robinson (Harvard University) "How to Build an Inclusive State"

19.30 - Dinner (Pre dinner drinks at 7 pm)

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Tuesday 1st April 2014

Economic History of the 19th and 20th Century Conflicts

Chair: Tamás Vonyó

9.00- 9.45: Hugh Rockoff (University of Rutgers) "War, Money, and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the Vietnam War"
9.45- 10.30: Steve Broadberry (London School of Economics) and Peter Howlett (London School of Economics) "Lessons Learned? British Mobilisation for the
Two World Wars"

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00- 11.45: Price Fishback (University of Arizona) and Taylor Jaworski (Arizona) "American Warfare and Welfare in the Long Run"
11.45- 12.30: Eric Golson (University of Warwick) "Neutrality at War"

12.30- 13.45: Lunch

Chair: Peter Lindert

13.45- 14.30: Jochen Streb (University of Mannheim) and Jonas Scherner (University of Trondheim) "German Economy in the World Wars"
14.30- 15.15: Johann Custodis (University of Warwick) "Prisoners of War and Economic Performance"