Friday, October 24
1

Opening Access by Ending the Violence Trap

Margaret Levi, Stanford University
2

Poisedness and Propagation: Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City

Victoria Johnson, University of Michigan
Walter Powell, Stanford University
3

Securing the East India Monopoly: Politics, Institutional Change, and the Security of British Property Rights Revisited

Dan Bogart, University of California at Irvine
4

Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts

Qian Lu, University of Maryland
John J. Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
5

General Incorporation and the Shift toward Open Access in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER
6

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

Barry Weingast, Stanford University
7

Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association

Jacob T. Levy, McGill University
8

Legal Constraints on the Development of American Non-Profit Groups, 1750-1900

Ruth H. Bloch, University of California at Los Angeles
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER
9

The Right to Associate and the Rights of Associations: Civil-Society Organizations in Prussia, 1794-1908

Richard R. W. Brooks, Columbia University
Timothy Guinnane, Yale University