October 14-15, 2016 | 28 Hillhouse Avenue, Tobin Lounge (Room B13)
Friday, October 14
Opening Remarks
Session 1: Imperialism in Latin America
Chair: Timothy Guinnane
Alan Dye
Columbia University
Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in Cuban Sugar, 1898-1929 [Paper]
Noel Maurer
George Washington University
Could Europe run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-34 [Paper]
Session 2: Colonial Labor Institutions
Chair: Bill English
Leticia Arroyo Abad
Middlebury College
The Long Arm of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Market Institutions on Colonial Development in Mexico and Peru [Paper]
Ed Rugemer
Yale University
Political Impact of Slave Resistance Over the Longue Durée: Jamaica in the 18th Century [Paper]
David Ryden
University of Houston
Winning and Preserving Freedom Through Manumission in Eighteenth Century Jamaica [Paper]
Saturday, October 15
Session 3: Institutions and Large-Scale Agriculture
Chair: Naomi Lamoreaux
Craig Palsson
Yale University
Breaking from Colonial Institutions: Haiti’s Idle Land, 1928-1950 [Paper]
Ahmed Reid
City University of New York,
Bronx
Capital, Credit and the Development of the Sugar Plantation Complex in the British West Indies [Paper]
Session 4: Elites in Power and Institutional Change
Chair: Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez
Jenny Guardado
Georgetown University
Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru [Paper]
Bernardo Mueller
University of Brasília
Development as Search: Beliefs Across Brazilian History [Paper]
Session 5: State Capacity
Chair: Ana Maria Ibañez
Luz Marina Arias
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
The Legacy of War Dynamics on Fiscal Capacity Building [Paper]
Bill Summerhill
University of California,
Los Angeles
When is Debt Odious? [Paper]