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8th European Social Science History Conference Ghent, Belgium April 2010
 
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Tuesday 13 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Wednesday 14 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Thursday 15 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30
Friday 16 April
   8.30
   10.45
   14.15
   16.30

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 Tuesday 13 April 10.45 

E-2  -  ECO01: Inter-faith commerce in Medieval and Early Modern Times II: Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum

    Network: Economics
Organiser: Catia Antunes
Organiser: Francesca Trivellato
Chair: Roxani Margariti
Discussant: Roxani Margariti
Ghislaine Lydon Partners in Profit: the leagal and practical implications of Muslim-Jewish collaborations in trans-Saharan trade
Wolfgang Kaiser The Economy of Ransoming in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Kathryn Miller Commerce and Captivity: the role of trust in the redemption of captives across religious and political boundaries
Viorel Panaite Foreigners, commercial navigation and Islamic law in the Ottoman Mediterranean: the evidence of a manuscript from Bibliotheque Nationale de France

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

E-3  -  ECO02: Interfaith commerce in Medieval and Early Modern Times III: Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic
Zaal L 4, muziekcentrum

    Network: Economics
Organiser: Catia Antunes
Organiser: Francesca Trivellato
Chair: Amélia Polónia
Discussant: Amélia Polónia
Catia Antunes Atlantic Entrepreneurship: cross-cultural business networks, 1580-1776
Juan Gelabert Pecunia, Patria, Religio: Atlantic trade during the Dutch Revolt (1585-1609)
Silvia Marzagalli Trade across religious boundaries in Early Modern France
Jeroen Puttevils Commerce and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp

 Tuesday 13 April 14.15 

B-3  -  RUR20: Meet the author: Paolo Malanima: Pre-Modern European Economy
Bibliotheek, muziekcentrum

    Network: Economics
Organiser: Anton Schuurman
Chair: Anton Schuurman
Discussant: Peer Vries
Discussant: Erik Thoen
Discussant: Socrates Petmezas
Discussant: Anne Mccants
Discussant: Paolo Malanima

 Wednesday 14 April 8.30 

C-5  -  ECO03: Fashion and Art Markets
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Economics
Chair: Harm Nijboer
Discussant: Jon Stobart
Ian Mitchell ‘I designe my books for posterity’: book collectors and conspicuous consumption in early modern England
Laura Ibisco, Valdo D'arienzo The Sanseverino Court: Fashion Style and Shopping of Nobiliary Class Between XV and XVIth Centuries
Klas Nyberg The economics of art and art industry: Patrons, artists and artisans in 18th century Stockholm

 Wednesday 14 April 10.45 

M-6  -  ECO04: International Trade
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Lex Heerma Van Voss
Discussant: Anne Mccants
Franz-Julius Morche The Institutional Foundations of Transcultural Trade – Venetian Merchants in the Islamic Levant, 1400-1420
Judit Valls Salada The legal relation between the medieval law merchant and the Spanish Commercial code of 1829

 Wednesday 14 April 14.15 

M-7  -  ECO05: Credit and Insurance Markets
Baertsoenzaal, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Anne Mccants
Discussant: Juliette Levy
Ariel Rubin When credit network fail: merchant bankrupcy records from sixteenth century Leiden
Daniel Strum Flemish Insurers and Jewish Policyholders: the Information Asymmetry ‎Problem in Business Relationships Beyond Religious and Ethnic Affiliations

 Thursday 15 April 8.30 

Q-9  -  ECO06: Industrious Revolution
Atelier R2, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Jaco Zuijderduijn
Discussant: Joyce Burnette
Ida Bull Industriousness and development of the school-system in the 18th century
Seongho Jun Why industrious revolution did not succeed in industrial revolution in 17th-19th Century Korea –Origins of the failure for Modern Career.
Juuso Marttila Entangled welfare, human and social capital in an industrializing ironwork community
Johan Poukens Sweet sweat? Consumer behaviour and the ‘Industrious Revolution’ in the Campine region (late 17th-18th century)

 Thursday 15 April 10.45 

P-10  -  ECO07: Public Goods
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Jeroen Touwen
Discussant: Ben Gales
Tobias Alexander Jopp Social Security and Intergenerational Redistribution: The German Miners' Knappschaften Since 1854
Tomas Hogberg Organizing public goods with decentralized management: The Swedish road network in the 19th century
Ewout Frankema Comparing Colonial State Expenditure Patterns, 1870-1940: Did the colonial periphery suffer from weak public finances?
Brooks Kaiser Long run outcomes of conservation expenditures: Watershed destruction, rehabilitation and protection in Hawaii

 Thursday 15 April 14.15 

P-11  -  ECO09: Long-term perspective on Economic Change
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Ewout Frankema
Discussant: Peer Vries
Graham Brownlow Structure and Change: Douglass North's Economics
Harry Kitsikopoulos Institutions and the crisis of feudalism
Jan Kunnas Economic Growth and Environmental Pressure in the Extremely Long Run

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

P-12  -  ECO08: Business History
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Peter Meyer
Discussant: Peter Meyer
Federico Rigamonti Real and monetary economy in nineteenth century Sicily: a case study
Harald Degner Large Sample Analysis and Firm-Level Business History
Knut Oyangen Core Rigidities and Soft Budget Constraints: Path Dependence in State-owned Industry
Tobias Karlsson Workforce reductions in theory and practice: Evidence from the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly in the 1920s

 Thursday 15 April 16.30 

C-12  -  MAT10: Branding across Borders
Kraakhuis, muziekcentrum

    Network: Economics
Chair: Harm Nijboer
Discussant: Harm Nijboer
Bert De Munck Guilds, branding and the location of value. Trade marks and monograms in early modern tableware industries
Katarina Friberg Without boundaries – a consumer co-operative ideal and logo
Ilja Van Damme A ‘knowledgeable’ retailer or a ‘recognizable’ product? An inquiry into early-modern branding strategies (Antwerp, 17th-18th centuries)
Jennifer Scanlon Branding Girlhood
Oliver Kühschelm The Call for Patriotic Consumption in the Interwar years

 Friday 16 April 8.30 

P-13  -  ECO10: The Role of Hamburg in Early Modern World Economy
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Jochen Streb
Discussant: Jeff Fynn-Paul
Frank Hatje Neutral Flags, European Trade and the Rise of Hamburg in the 17th and 18th centuries
Toshiaki Tamaki Hamburg as a center of Logistics in Early Modern World Economy
Klaus Weber Hamburg’s and Central Europe’s Links with the Atlantic Slave Trade and Plantation Economies, 17th to 19th Centuries
Pourchasse Pierrick The Huguenots in Hamburg

 Friday 16 April 10.45 

P-14  -  ECO12: Post-War Twentieth Century
Auditorium D5, Pauli

    Network: Economics
Chair: Jochen Streb
Olaf Mertelsmann On the Relation of Mortality and Income: An Example from Stalinism
Ophelia Ongena The history of the SERV and of the social economic dialogue in Flanders
Jeroen Touwen Paradigm or hyperbole? Categories of institutional change and the changing priorities in the post-war economies