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Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Douglas Irwin and Richard Sylla, Organizers

May 8 and 9, 2009

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH 03755

PROGRAM

Friday, May 8, 2009
8:15 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:45 a.m.	Introduction – Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
9:00 a.m.	Jack Rakove, Stanford University
	Barry Weingast, Stanford University
	The Constitutional Choices of 1787 and Their Consequences
	Discussant: John Carey, Dartmouth College
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:15 a.m.	Richard Sylla, New York University and NBER
	Financial Foundations: Public Credit, the National Bank, and Securities Markets
	Discussant: Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University and NBER
11:15 a.m.	Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy
	Discussant: Max Edling, University of Uppsala
12:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m.	Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University and NBER
	Monetary Policy and the Dollar
	Discussant: Michael Bordo, Rutgers University and NBER
2:15 p.m.	Farley Grubb, Delaware and NBER
	Land Policy: Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802
	Discussant: Thomas Weiss, University of Kansas and NBER
3:15 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Zorina Khan, Bowdoin and NBER
	Looking Backward: Founding Choices in Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection
	Discussant: Naomi Lamoreaux, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
4:30 p.m.	Panel Discussion
	Rationales for the Constitutional Convention of 1787: New Debates and Perspectives
	Moderator: Joseph Cullon, Dartmouth College
	Panel: Pauline Maier, MIT, Jack Rakove, Stanford University, Woody Holton, University of Richmond, Max Edling, University of Uppsala
6:00 p.m.	Adjourn
6:30 p.m.	Group Dinner at Hanover Inn
Saturday, May 9, 2009
8:15 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:45 a.m.	John Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
	The Other Foundings: Federalism and the Constitutional Structure of American Government
	Discussant: John Majewski, UC, Santa Barbara
9:45 a.m.	Break
10:00 a.m.	Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University and NBER
	Splendid Associations of Favored Individuals: Federal and State Commercial Banking Policy in the Federalist Era
	Discussant: Eugene White, Rutgers University and NBER
11:00 a.m.	Robert E. Wright, New York University
	Rise of the Corporation Nation.
	Discussant: Pauline Maier, MIT
12:00 m	Break
12:15 p.m.	Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester and NBER
	Free Labor and Slave Labor
	Discussant: Robert Margo, Boston University and NBER
1:15 p.m.	Adjourn and lunch.