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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Development of the American Economy Program Meeting

Claudia Goldin, Organizer

March 1, 2014

NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Friday, February 28, 2014
6:30 pm	Dinner Dante Restaurant 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard (Located in the Royal Sonesta Hotel) Cambridge, MA
Saturday, March 1, 2014
8:00 am 8:20 am	Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	John Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER Leviathan Denied: Governments, Rules, and Social Dynamics Joint with Douglass North
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	James Robinson, Harvard University and NBER Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries Joint with Leander Heldring, University of Oxford, and Sebastian Vollmer, University of Göttingen
11:15 am	Peter Lindert, University of California at Davis and NBER Jeffrey Williamson, University of Wisconsin and NBER American Incomes 1650-1870: New Evidence, Controlled Conjectures
12:15 pm	Luncheon Talk Joshua Rosenbloom- University of Kansas and NBER Forging a Research Mission for the University of Kansas
1:15 pm	Robert Margo, Boston University and NBER Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing Revisited: A Solution to the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem
2:15 pm	Break
2:25 pm	Nicolas Ziebarth, University of Iowa and NBER Erik Loualiche, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Internal Capital Markets in the Great Depression
3:25 pm	Break
3:35 pm	Carl Kitchens, University of Mississippi and NBER Price Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER Flip the Switch: The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940
4:35 pm	Adjourn
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