NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Starting Economic Growth: A mini-conference

Peter Temin, Organizer

June 1 and 2, 2006

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, JUNE 1:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

Session I: Framework

9:00 am PETER TEMIN, MIT and NBER

Introduction

9:15 am DARON ACEMOGLU, MIT and NBER

Institutional Roots of Modern Prosperity

background paper 1

background paper 2

10:15 am ROBERT ALLEN, University of Oxford

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective:

How Commerce Rather than Science Caused the Industrial Revolution and Modern Economic Growth

11:15 am Break

11:30 am Organized Discussion

12:00 n Lunch

Session II: Western Europe

1:00 pm GUIDO TABELLINI, IGIER

Culture and Institutions:

Economic Development in the Regions of Europe

2:00 pm PATRICK O’BRIEN, University of Oxford

It's Not the Economy Silly: It's the Navy

background paper

EUGENE WHITE, Rutgers University and NBER

Why Ancient Regime France Failed to Modernize

background paper 1

background paper 2

3:00 pm Break

3:15 pm Organized Discussion

4:00 pm Adjourn

6:00 pm Group Dinner

Casablanca Restaurant

40 Brattle St.

Cambridge, MA 02138

FRIDAY, JUNE 2:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

Session III: Ottoman Empire

9:00 am SEVKET PAMUK, Bogazici University

Changes in Financial Institutions in the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1840

background paper

10:00 am ROBERT HALL, Stanford University and NBER

Reflections

11:00 am Break

11:15 am Organized Discussion

12:00 pm Lunch

Session IV: Latin America

1:00 pm STEPHEN HABER, Stanford University and NBER

JOHN COATSWORTH, Harvard University

The Politics and Economics of Latin American Underdevelopment

background paper 1

background paper 2

background paper 3

2:00 pm JAMES ROBINSON, Harvard University and NBER

Mechanisms of Persistence

3:00 pm Break

3:15 pm Organized Discussion

4:00 pm Adjourn

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