Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development

Friday, October 18, 2013 - Saturday, October 19, 2013 | Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Friday, October 18

1:00pm - 1:30pm:

Introduction: NAOMI LAMOREAUX and JOHN WALLIS

Session 1

1:30pm - 3:00pm:

DAN BOGART
Political Connections, Governance, and Property Rights in Britain’s Early Corporations: The Case of the East India Company

QIAN LU and JOHN WALLIS
Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts

3:00pm - 3:30pm: Coffee break

Session II

3:30pm - 5:00pm:

ERIC HILT
General Incorporation and the Shift toward Open Access in the Nineteenth-Century United States

NICHOLAS BLOOM, RAFFAELLA SADUN, and JOHN VAN REENEN
The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Saturday, October 19

8:00am: Breakfast

Session III

8:30am - 10:00am:

RUTH H. BLOCH and NAOMI R. LAMOREAUX
Legal Constraints on the Development of Voluntary Organizations in the United States, 1780-1900

WALTER W. POWELL and VICTORIA JOHNSON
Poisedness and Organizational Emergence: From Civic Order to Professional Philanthropy in 19th Century New York City

10:00am - 10:30am: Coffee break

Session IV

10:30am - 12:00am Noon:

RICHARD BROOKS and TIMOTHY GUINNANE
The Right to Associate and the Rights of Associations: Civil-Society Organizations in Prussia, 1794-1908

MARGARET LEVI
The Fragility of Access

12:00am - 1:00pm: Lunch

Session V

1:00pm - 1:45pm:

BARRY R. WEINGAST
Escape from the Violence Trap: The Rise of the Commercial Towns on the Doorstep from the Feudal Natural State Equilibrium

2:30pm - 3:00pm: Wrap Up