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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development

Naomi Lamoreaux and John Wallis, Organizers

October 24-25, 2014

NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Friday, October 24
8:00 am	Van from the Sonesta
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Naomi Lamoreaux and John Wallis, “Introduction”
9:15 am	Margaret Levi, Stanford University
	Barry Weingast, Stanford University
	Opening Access by Ending the Violence Trap
	Walter Powell, Stanford University
	Victoria Johnson, University of Michigan
	Poisedness and Propagation: Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City
	Discussant: Avinash Dixit, Princeton University
11:15 am	Coffee Break
11:30 am	Daniel Bogart, University of California at Irvine
	Securing the East India Monopoly: Politics, Institutional Change, and the Security of British Property Rights Revisited
	Discussant: Richard S. Grossman, Wesleyan University
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Qian Lu, University of Maryland
	John J. Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
	Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts
	Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
	General Incorporation and the Shift toward Open Access in the Nineteenth-Century United States
	Discussant: William Novak, University of Michigan
3:30 pm	Coffee Break
3:45 pm	Barry Weingast, Stanford University
	From “The Lowest State of Poverty and Barbarism” to The Opulent Commercial Society: Adam Smith’s Theory of Violence and the Political Economics of Development
	Jacob T. Levy, McGill University
	Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association
	Discussant: Emma Rothschild, Harvard University
5:45 pm	Adjourn and van to the Sonesta
7:00 pm	Dinner, Bambara, in the Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Sonesta)
Saturday, October 25
8:00 am	Van from the Sonesta
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Ruth H. Bloch, University of California at Los Angeles
	Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER
	Legal Constraints on the Development of American Non-Profit Groups, 1750-1900
	Richard R. W. Brooks, Columbia University
	Timothy Guinnane, Yale University
	The Right to Associate and the Rights of Associations: Civil-Society Organizations in Prussia, 1794-1908
	Discussant: Jonathan Levy, Princeton University
11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:15 am	Discussion and Wrap up
12:15 pm	Lunch