Economic Growth & Development: From a Historical Perspective

Conference on

"Economic Growth & Development: From a Historical Perspective"

(Organized by Jayasri Dutta, Heraklis Polemarchakis and Aditya Goenka)

Location: Economics Department, University of Birmingham, Pritchatt's Road, Birmingham B15 2TT

Date	Speaker, Title and Discussant
10:45-11:00	Welcome and Coffee
11:00-12:00	Nicholas Crafts (University of Warwick) Title: "Geography and the Great Divergence: Market Access and Economic Growth in the 19th Century" Discussant: Martin Weale (Bank of England)
12:00-13:00	Leigh Shaw-Taylor (University of Cambridge) Title: "The escape from Malthusian Constraints in England 1300-1900" Discussant: Bishnu Gupta (University of Warwick)
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14.00-15.00	Christophe Chamley (Boston University) Title: "The Bank of England and its First Suspension of Convertibility during the French Wars" Discussant: Martin Daunton (University of Cambridge)
15.00-16.00	Toke Aidt (University of Cambridge) Title: "The Social Dynamics of Riots: Evidence from the Captain Swing Riots 1830-33" Discussant: Sandeep Kapur (Birkbeck College)
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16.30-17.30	Debraj Ray (New York University) Title: "Size matters but not in the way you think"" Discussant: Facundo Albornoz (University of Nottingham)