NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Corruption and Reform Conference
Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, Organizers
July 30 and 31, 2004
Hawthorne Hotel
18 Washington Square West, Salem, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
Thursday, July 29
7:00 p.m.	Group dinner
	Sophia’s at the Hawthorne Hotel
Friday, July 30
8:15 a.m.	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 a.m.	Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin
	Introductory remarks
	Corruption and the Fourth Estate
9:00 a.m.	Matthew Gentzkow, Harvard University
	Edward Glaeser, and Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER
	The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why it Mattered
	Discussant: Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina and NBER
10:00 a.m.	Break
	Antebellum Corruption
10:15 a.m.	Howard Bodenhorn, Lafayette College and NBER
	Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York:
	Free Banking as Reform
	Discussant: Lee Alston, University of Colorado and NBER
	Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester and NBER
	Kenneth Sokoloff, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Corruption in the Building of the Erie and other New York Canals
	Discussant: Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
12:15 noon	Long Break (sandwiches available for take out)
	Corruption and the Rule of Law
2:30 p.m.	William Novak, University of Chicago
	Law and the Social Control of Business in the Progressive Era
	Discussant: Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University
3:30 p.m.	Break
	Progressive Era Corruption and Reform
3:45 p.m.	Price Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
	Reform or Employer Capture? The Role of Employers in the Development of Industrial Safety Regulation through the Progressive Era
	Discussant: Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER
	Gary Libecap, University of Arizona and NBER
	Marc Law, University of Vermont
	Corruption and Reform? The Emergence of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
	Discussant: RAYMOND FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER and
	Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University (in absentia)
5:45 p.m.	Adjourn
7:00 p.m.	Dinner
Saturday, July 31
8:30 a.m.	Coffee and pasties
	Progressive Era Cities and Corruption
8:45 a.m.	David Cutler, Harvard University and NBER
	Grant Miller, Harvard University
	Water, Water Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities
	Discussant: Tomas Nonnenmacher, Allegheny College
	Rebecca Menes, George Mason University and NBER
	Corruption in Cities: Graft and Politics in American Cities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
	Discussant: Jason Kaufman, Harvard University
10:45 a.m.	Break
	The New Deal
11:00 a.m.	Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor, University of Arizona and NBER
	John Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
	Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America’s Social Welfare System during the New Deal
	Discussant: Robert Margo, Vanderbilt University and NBER
12:00 noon	Lunch
	Corporate Governance and the Role of Government
1:15 p.m.	Naomi Lamoreaux, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	Jean Laurent Rosenthal, UC, Los Angeles
	Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression
	Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh and NBER
	Regime Change and Corruption: A History of Public Utility Regulation
	Discussant: Judith Chevalier, Yale University and NBER
3:00 p.m.	Break
	Corruption and Reform: Wrapping Up
3:15 p.m.	John Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER
	The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American Political and Economic History
	Discussant: Morton Keller, Brandeis University
4:15 p.m.	Adjourn
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