Programme
QUANTIFYING LONG RUN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The University of Warwick in Venice, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, 22-24 March 2011
Organisers: Stephen Broadberry (Warwick and CEPR) and Peter Lindert (UC Davis)
Programme
Tuesday 22 March: Britain and Holland, 1270-1870
9.00-9.15: Welcome and Introduction
9.15-10.15: Paper 1
English Economic Growth, 1270-1700
Stephen Broadberry, Bruce Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, Bas van Leeuwen
10.15-11.15: Paper 2
British Economic Growth and the Business Cycle, 1700-1870
Stephen Broadberry, Bruce Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton and Bas van Leeuwen
11.15-11.45: Tea and Coffee
11.45-12.45: Paper 3
The Character of Growth before ‘Modern Economic Growth: the GDP of Holland between 1347 and 1807
Jan Luiten van Zanden and Bas van Leeuwen
12.45-14.30: Lunch
14.30-15.30: Paper 4
English Medieval Population: Reconciling Time Series and Cross Sectional Evidence
Stephen Broadberry, Bruce Campbell and Bas van Leeuwen
15.30-16.00: Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00: Paper 5
The Sectoral Distribution of the Labour Force and Labour Productivity in Britain, 1381-1851
Stephen Broadberry, Bruce Campbell and Bas van Leeuwen
17.00-18.00: Paper 6
Social Tables for British North America 1774 and 1800
Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson
20.00: Dinner
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Wednesday 23 March: Other European countries
9.15-10.15: Paper 7
The Rise and Fall of Spain: 1270-1850
Carlos Alvarez-Nogal and Leandro Prados de la Escosura
10.15-11.15: Paper 8
Ancient and Pre-Modern Economies: GDP in the Roman Empire and Early Modern Europe
Paolo Malanima and Elio Lo Cascio
11.15-11.45: Tea and Coffee
11.45-12.45: Paper 9
New Estimates of Portugal's GDP per Capita 1500-1850
Jaime Reis
12.45-14.30: Lunch
14.30-15.30: Paper 10
Towards Estimates of Long-Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, 1500-1846
Erik Buyst
15.30-16.00: Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00: Paper 11
Economic Growth in Germany, c. 1500-1850
Ulrich Pfister
17.00-18.00: Paper 12
The Swedish Economy 1571-1850 – Growth or Stagnation? Constructing the Historical National Accounts
Olle Krantz
20.00: Dinner
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Thursday 24 March: Russia and Asia
9.15-10.15: Paper 13
Great War, Civil War, and Recovery: Russia’s National Income, 1913 to 1928
Appendix
Andrei Markevich and Mark Harrison
10.15-11.15: Paper 14
Serfdom, Emancipation, and Economic Development in Tsarist Russia
Steven Nafziger
11.15-11.45: Tea and Coffee
11.45-12.45: Paper 15
Calculating Incomes in Imperial Russia before 1861:Possibilities and Challenges
Tracy Dennison
12.45-14.30: Lunch
14.30-15.30: Paper 16
Russia’s Income Distribution 1678-1913: What the Estimates Imply Thus Far
Peter Lindert and Steven Nafzinger
15.30-16.00: Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00: Paper 17
Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1870
Jean-Pascal Bassino, Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, Bishnupriya Gupta and Masanori Takashima
21.00: Dinner
