I’m surprised I had not come across these videos before. They
are from a conference at Williams College on Historical Persistence in Comparative Development. This was the lineup for the
conference
How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?;
Fertility and Modernity
Enrico Spolaore, professor of economics at Tufts University
and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Forced Coexistence and Economic Development: Evidence
from Native American Reservations
Christian Dippel, assistant professor of economics in the
Global Economics and Management Group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management
4:30 p.m. Climate and the Slave Trade
James Fenske, associate professor in the Department of
Economics and deputy director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies
at the University of Oxford
8 p.m. Keynote Address: The Global Spatial Distribution
of Population and Economic Activity: Effects of Nature, History, and
Agglomeration
David Weil, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics at
Brown University and research associate of the NBER
Engineers, Entrepreneurs, and Development in the Americas
William Maloney, lead economist in the World Bank’s
Development Economic Research Group, former professor of economics at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development
Marcella Alsan, assistant professor of medicine at the
Stanford University School of Medicine, core faculty member at Stanford’s
Center for Health Policy/Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Malthusian Dynamics and the Rise of the Poor Megacity
Dietrich Vollrath, associate professor of economics at the
University of Houston
“Unfinished
Business”: Historic Complementaries, Political Competition, and Ethnic Violence
in Gujarat
Saumitra Jha, associate professor of political economy at
the Stanford University Graduate School of Business
The European Origins of Comparative Development
Ross Levine, Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance at
the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the
Nazi Party
Nico Voigtländer, assistant professor of economics in the
Global Economics and Management group at UCLA Anderson School of Management
The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
Stelios Michalopoulous, assistant professor of economics at
Brown University, faculty research fellow at the NBER, external research
associate of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy at the
University of Warwick
Intergenerational Mobility and Institutional Change in
20th Century China
Noam Yuchtman, assistant professor in the Business and
Public Policy Group at the Haas School of Business at the University of
California, Berkeley and faculty research fellow at the NBER
The videos of the talks can be found here
on youtube.
Here is Slave
Consumption in the Old South: A Double Edged Sword by Kathleen Hilliard at the American Historian
Erik Hilt’s Economic
History, Historical Analysis, and the “New History of Capitalism” in the June Journal of Economic History can be
accessed for free until the end of June
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