ECONOMICS 211

Economic History Seminar
Spring 2007
Professor Christina D. Romer
E-mail:
639 Evans
Monday, 2-4 p.m.

* Note Change in Day, Location and Time


January 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday - No Meeting
January 22 No Meeting
January 29 Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis
Genetically Capitalist? The Malthusian Era and the Evolution of Modern Preferences
February 5
Carlotta Perez, Cambridge University
Bubbles, Recessions, and Golden Ages: A Long-term View of Technology and Finance
February 14* Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
David Card, University of California, Berkeley
Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools
(with Alexandre Mas and Jesse Rothstein)
-- Joint with Department Seminar --
February 21*
Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
David S. Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Crime and Optimal Punishment: Structural Estimates from a Quasi-Experiment
(with Justin McCrary)
-- Joint with Department Seminar --
February 26
Rui Esteves, Simon Fraser University
Between Imperialism and Capitalism: European Capital Exports Before 1914
March 5
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
Law and Finance "at the Origin"
March 12
Christina D. Romer and David Romer, University of California, Berkeley
Starve the Beast or Explode the Deficit? The Effect of Tax Cuts on Government Spending
March 19* Note: Location moved to 608-7 Evans
John Wallis, University of Maryland
Barry Weingast, Stanford University
A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
(with Douglas North)
March 26 Spring Break - No Meeting
April 4* Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
Antonio Rangel, California Institute of Technology
The Role of Visual Attention in Simple Economic Choice
-- Joint with Department Seminar --
April 9 No Meeting
April 16 Leah Platt Boustan, University of California, Los Angeles
Flight from the City: The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods
April 23 Petra Moser, Stanford University
What Do Inventors Patent?
April 30 Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution
(with Kevin O'Rourke and Ahmad Rahman)
-- Joint with International Economics Seminar --
May 7 Richard Hornbeck, M.I.T.
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Evidence on the Effects of Property Rights

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