Accounting for the Great Divergence
The University of Warwick in Venice,
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
22-24 May 2014
Organiser: Stephen Broadberry (LSE and CAGE)
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PROGRAMME
Thursday 22
May:
9.00-9.15:
9.15-10.15:
10.15-11.15:
11.15-11.45:
11.45-12.45:
12.45-14.30:
14.30-15.30
Welcome and Introduction
"Accounting for the 'Little Divergence': What drove growth in preindustrial Europe, 1300-1800"
(Sandra de Pleijt and Jan Luiten van Zanden)
Energy Consumption in England and Italy 1560-1913: Two
Pathways towards Energy Transition
(Paolo Malanima)
Tea and Coffee
Was Domar right? the Second Serfdom and the land-labour ratio in
eighteenth-century Bohemia
(Alex Klein and Sheilagh Ogilvie)
Lunch
Decline, stagnation, stability and growth: the experience of latemedieval Italy, Spain, England and Holland
(Bruce Campbell)
15.30-16.00
Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00:
The heavy plough and the agricultural revolution in medieval Europe
(Thomas Andersen, Peter Jensen and Christian Skovsgaard)
17.00-18.00:
Danish Historical National Accounts
(Ingrid Henriksen, Peter Jensen and Paul Sharp)
20.00
Friday 23 May
Dinner Vecia Cavana
9.15-10.15:
Portuguese demography and economic growth 1500-1850
(Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis)
10.15-11.15:
The determinants of debasements by early modern European states
(Ceyhun Elgin, Kivanc Karaman and Sevket Pamuk)
11.15-11.45:
Tea and Coffee
11.45-12.45:
Scientific knowledge and industrialization
(Mara Squicciarini and Nico Voigtlaender)
12.45-14.30
Lunch
14.30-15.30
Accounting for the Great Divergence
(Stephen Broadberry)
15.30-16.00
Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00:
Capital markets in China and England 1771 to 1864: Evidence from
Grain Prices
(Wolfgang Keller, Carol Shiue and Xin Wang)
17.00-18.00:
Economic Freedom in the Long Run: Evidence from OECD
Countries (1850-2007)
(Leandro Prados de la Escosura)
20.00
Dinner : L’Ombra del Leone
Sat 24 May
9.15-10.15:
Regional and personal inequality in Japan, 1850-1955
(Jean-Pascal Bassino, Kyoji Fukao, Tokihiko Settsu and Masanori
Takashima)
10.15-11.15:
Estimating the shares of the secondary and tertiary sectors in gross
domestic output: the case of early modern Japan, 1600-1874
(Osamu Saito and Masanori Takashima)
11.15-11.45
Tea and Coffee
11.45-12.45
Understanding our past, informing our present: the GDP study of the
early modern Yangzi Delta (Bozhong Li)
12.45-14.30:
Lunch
14.30-15.30
National income and productivity in China and Northwestern
Europe, c. 1800-1860
(Shi Zhihong, Ni Yuping, Xuyi and Bas van Leeuwen)
15.30-16.00
Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.00
Leader, Follower, Leader, Follower, Leader: American Incomes
1650-1870
(Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson)
17.00-18.00
Oh Lord: the Great Divergence in missionary wages between Africa,
America, Asia and Europe, c. 1850 to 1960
(Jutta Bolt and Jacob Weisdorf)
21.00
Dinner Madonna