FRIDAY, MARCH 1:
6:30 PM Dinner
Legal Sea Foods
Kendall Square
5 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02139
617/864-3400 phone
SATURDAY, MARCH 2:
7:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM RICHARD SYLLA, New York University and NBER
(Joint with Jack Wilson and Robert Wright)
Trans-Atlantic Capital Market Integration, 1790-1845
9:30 AM Break
9:45 AM JOHN J. WALLIS, University of Maryland and NBER
The Property Tax as a Coordinating Device: Financing Indiana's Mammoth
Internal Improvement System, 1835 to 1842
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM LEE J. ALSTON, University of Illinois and NBER
The Erosion of Legitimate Government: Argentina, 1930-1947
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM JOSEPH P. FERRIE, Northwestern University and NBER
The Rich and the Dead: Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in the United States, 1850-1860
2:00 PM Break
Over, Please!
Development of the American Economy Program, Page 2:
2:15 PM MARC D. WEIDENMIER, Claremont-McKenna College and NBER
KERRY ODELL, Scripps College
Real Shock, Monetary Aftershocks: The San Francisco Earthquake and the
Panic of 1907
3:15 PM DONALD R. DAVIS and DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER
Bombs, Bones, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity
4:15 PM Adjourn
2/15/02