CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Interim Conference 2013
28th – 31st May 2013
Scarman House, University of Warwick
Tuesday 28th May
Session 1:‘Accounting for the Great Divergence’,
Chair: Professor Stephen Broadberry
08:45
09:00
09:15
Registration and Coffee
Introduction and Welcome
Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi)
10:15
10:45
Coffee
Debin Ma (LSE)
11:45
Stephen Broadberry
(LSE/CAGE)
Lunch
12:45
“Growth and Inequality in the Great Divergence
Debate: Mughal India, Stuart England and
Tokugawa Japan Compared”
“Political Institutions and Long Run Growth in
China”
“Accounting for the Great Divergence”
14:00
Sandra de Pleij (Utrecht)
Co-Author: Jan Luiten van
Zanden (Utrecht)
“Accounting for the Little Divergence: The
Determinants of Economic Growth in Europe,
1300-1800”
15:00
Bob Allen (Oxford)
“Factor Prices and the Industrial Revolution: A
Marxist Perspective”
16:00
16:30
Coffee
Jaime Reis (ICS,
Universidade de Lisboa),
Conceição Andrade Martins
(ICS, Universidade de
Lisboa) and Leonor Freire
Costa (ISEG, Universidade
Técnica de Lisboa)
17:30
19:00
Roundtable
Dinner
“From Great Power to Economic Backwater:
Portugal’s GDP, 1500-1850”
Future developments
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