Organizations, Civil Society, & the Roots of Dev,

October 24-25, 2014

1050 Massachuestts Avenue

Friday, October 24
1	Margaret Levi, Stanford University Opening Access by Ending the Violence Trap
2	Victoria Johnson, University of Michigan Walter Powell, Stanford University Poisedness and Propagation: Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City
3	Dan Bogart, University of California at Irvine Securing the East India Monopoly: Politics, Institutional Change, and the Security of British Property Rights Revisited
4	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
5	Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER General Incorporation and the Shift toward Open Access in the Nineteenth-Century United States
6	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
7	Jacob T. Levy, McGill University Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association
8	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
9	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