The 2008 Economic History Association Meeting

The Engines of Growth: Innovation, Creative Destruction, and Human Capital Accumulation

Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, New Haven, Connecticut
September 12-14, 2008
Alan L. Olmstead, President

Schedule

Updated on 2009-12-23 19:26

The conference meeting rooms will be equipped with laptops and LCD projectors, so the presenters can make PowerPoint presentations. You should either email your presentation to the Meetings Coordinator ( elorantaj@appstate.edu ) as an attachment or bring it with you on a CD or memory stick. The EHA does NOT offer the option of using overhead slides.

 

Thursday, September 11

7:00-8:00 PM Board of Trustees meeting, cocktails
8:00-10:00 PM Board of Trustees dinner

 

Friday, September 12

9:30-12:00 AM Workshop: Job Market Tips and Tales
10:00-11:00 AM Tour 1: Walking tour of New Haven and Yale architecture
10:00 AM & 11:00 AM Tour 2: Tour of the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
10:00-11:30 AM Tour 3: Tour of the Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
8:00 AM-1:00 PM Board of Trustees Meeting (Breakfast and Lunch served)
10:00-10:30 AM Coffee Break
1:30-3:00 PM Session 1A: Corporations, Entrepreneurship, and Regulation
1:30-3:00 PM Session 1B: Education, Investment, and Institutions
3:00-3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 PM Session 2A: Rural Organization and Innovation
3:30-5:00 PM Session 2B: Intellectual Property Rights and Markets
3:30-5:00 PM Session 2C: Chinese Economic Development
1:00-5:00 PM Poster Displays
5:30-7:00 PM Reception at the Yale Center for British Art
8:00-10:00 PM Journal of Economic History Editorial Board Dinner
8:00-10:00 PM Graduate Student Dinner

 

Saturday, September 13

6:45-8:00 AM Historians' Breakfast
6:45-8:00 AM Teachers' Breakfast
8:15-9:45 AM Session 3A: Africa and Colonization
8:15-9:45 AM Session 3B: Evolution of Health Care Practices and Institutions
8:15-9:45 AM Session 3C: Human Capital Creation
9:45-10:15 AM Coffee Break
10:15-11:45 AM Session 4A: Demographic Changes
10:15-11:45 PM Session 4B: Urban Transformations
10:15-11:45 PM Session 4C: Agriculture, Technology, and Adaptation
8:00 AM-5:00 PM Poster Displays
12:00-1:30 PM Women's Lunch
1:30-2:30 PM Business Meeting
2:30-2:45 PM Coffee Break
2:45-4:45 PM Dissertation Session
5:00-6:30 PM Plenary Session
6:30-7:30 PM Reception
7:30-10:00 PM Banquet, Awards & Presidential Address
10:00-11:00 PM President's Party

 

Sunday, September 14

7:00-8:15 AM EHA Breakfast Buffet
8:15-9:45 AM Session 5A: Industrialization, Colonization, and Trade in Asian Development
8:15-9:45 AM Session 5B: Malthus, Migration, and the Modern World
9:45-10:15 AM Coffee Break
10:15 AM-11:45 PM Session 6A: Innovation, Competition, and Growth
10:15 AM-11:45 PM Session 6B: Impact of Trade Barriers on Growth