Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth:

A Conference Honoring the Contributions of Kenneth Sokoloff

Friday and Saturday, November 7-8, 2008

Organizers: Dora L. Costa and Naomi Lamoreaux

UC, Los Angeles Faculty Center

405 N. Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90024

Sponsored by NBER, the All-UC Economic History Group, and UCLA

Program

Friday, November 7, 2008
8:00 a.m.	Continental breakfast
8:45 a.m.	Introduction
9:00 a.m.	STANLEY ENGERMAN, University of Rochester and NBER
	Once Upon a Time in the Americas:Land and Immigration Policy in the New World (Tables)
	joint with Kenneth Sokoloff
	Discussant: PETER LINDERT, University of California, Davis
9:50 a.m.	JAMES ROBINSON, Harvard University and NBER
	The Myth of the Frontier
	Discussant: RONALD ROGOWSKI, University of California, Los Angeles
10:40 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	STEPHEN HABER, Stanford University and NBER
	Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse
	joint with Victor Menaldo
	Discussant: JEFFREY FRIEDEN, Harvard University
11:50 a.m.	DANIEL KAUFMANN, World Bank
	Corruption and Capture in Economic Development:  A few reflections and some evidence (Slides)
	Discussant: DANIEL TREISMAN, University of California, Los Angeles
12:40 p.m.	Lunch
2:00 p.m.	CLAUDIA GOLDIN, Harvard University and NBER
	Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement
	joint with Lawrence Katz
	Discussant: DAVID CARD, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:50 p.m.	NAOMI LAMOREAUX, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
	The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century
	joint with Kenneth Sokoloff and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal
	Discussant: ARIEL PAKES, Harvard University and NBER
3:40 p.m.	Break
4:00 p.m.	ROBERT W. FOGEL, University of Chicago and NBER
	The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth
5:00 p.m.	Adjourn
6:00 p.m.	Dinner
	Remarks: DOUGLASS C. NORTH, Washington University in St. Louis
Saturday, November 8
7:45 a.m.	Continental breakfast
8:20 a.m.	ZORINA KHAN, Bowdoin College and NBER
	Premium Inventions: Patents and Prizes as Incentive Mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930
	Discussant: MANUEL TRATJENBERG, Tel-Aviv University
9:10 a.m.	SUKKOO KIM, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
	The Law of the Primate City in the Americas
	joint with Sebastian Galiani
	Discussant: EDWARD LEAMER, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
10:00 a.m.	Break
10:20 a.m.	JOHN MAJEWSKI, University of California, Santa Barbara
	Population Densities, Political Structures, and the Early Corporation: The Transportation Revolution in the U.K. and United States
	joint with Daniel Bogart
	Discussant: JOHN WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
11:10 a.m.	JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL, Caltech
	History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in 19th Century France
	joint with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Philip T. Hoffman
	Discussant: JOEL MOKYR, Northwestern University
12:00 a.m.	Adjourn
12:15	Buses depart from Faculty Center for LAX
Conference format:		Authors will present for 25 minutes, discussants will critique for 10 minutes followed by 15 minutes of general discussion