Events

Lunchtime Workshops  Michaelmas 2009

• Workshops run from 1 – 2 p.m. and are held in the Marshall Room, Faculty of Economics. A sandwich lunch is provided.

• Friday 20th November
  Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Western Europe.
  Toke Aidt will be speaking about his work with Peter S. Jensen.
  The paper tests the hypothesis that the threat of revolution caused the elite to extend the voting farnachise, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson (2000). New meausres of the threat of revolution are proposed and the relationship between these and measures of suffrage reform on a sample of 12 western European countries covering the period from 1820 to 1938 are tested. Strong support is found for the `threat of revolution' hypothesis. Evidence is also found that war mattered for the extension of the franchise, whereas modernization theory finds little support
• Ellen McArthur Lectures
  2nd - 14th November
• Professor Nicholas Crafts examines Great Britain from the first industrial nation to the 'sick-man' of Europe: how and why and what do our present problems have to do with this historical journey? Details here

• Friday 30th January
  Human Well-Being and the “Industrious Revolution”: consumption, gender and social capital in a German developing economy 1600-1900.
  Sheilagh Ogilvie, Markus Kupker and Janine Maegraith
  Faculty of Economics, Cambridge

• Friday 27th February
  What solved the time-inconsistency problem during the Suspension period of 1797-1821?
  Elisa Newby
  Fellow in economics, Fitzwilliam Colleg

• Friday 2nd May Professor Tony Cockerill
  The Steel White Paper of 1973: an idiographic study in public policy making. Further details

• Friday 16th May: Professor Josef Ehmer
  The long-term trend of declining labour force participation by the elderly in 20th century European societies. Further details

• Friday 23rd May Professor James Robinson
  The Consequences of Radical Reform: the French Revolution as a natural experiment. Further details

• Institutions, Public Policy and Economic Outcomes Conference:

  Jesus College, August 6-8, 2007: Further details

• Mellon Sawyer Workshop on Debt, Sovereignty and Power

  The final Mellon Sawyer Workshop on Debt, Sovereignty and Power will take place on Monday 21st May, in the Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall. The subject is Debt and Dictatorship in the Inter-War Period, and we have four papers on Italy, Germany, Poland and Vichy France respectively. Further details of the program are available on our website: http://www.sps.cam.ac.uk/pol_sawyer/democracy_dictatorships_workshops.htm

• Launch of the Centre for Quantitative Economic History.
  The Centre for Quantitative Economic History hosted its official launch on Wednesday 31st January 2007. The Pitt Professor, Michael Bordo, gave a fascinating and wide-ranging lecture entitled "Growing up to Financial Stability" to an audience of economists and historians comprising academics, graduate and undergraduate students from within and external to the University of Cambridge. We were delighted to see a substantial number of people attend from Europe, Canada and the USA. A drinks reception was held in the Atrium of the Law Faculty after the lecture and this was followed by an excellent dinner in the Saltmarsh Rooms at King's College for twenty guests.
  Growing up to Financial Stability