Institutions and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical and Contemporary Issues

The conference program is set. All are welcome to attend and take part in the discussion, regardless of institutional or departmental affiliation.
Please register if you plan to attend.
Papers will be posted with password protection as the authors make them available.
For password, email Noel Sardalla.

Friday, October 14

1:15 pm - 1:30 pm Opening Remarks

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Session 1: Imperialism in Latin America
Chair: TIMOTHY GUINNANE 

ALAN DYE (Columbia University)
Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in Cuban Sugar, 1898-1929

NOEL MAURER (George Washington University)
Could Europe run Greece? Lessons from U.S. Fiscal Receiverships in Latin America, 1904-34

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm  Coffee Break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm 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

ED RUGEMER (Yale University)
Political Impact of Slave Resistance Over the Longue Durée: Jamaica in the 18th Century

DAVID RYDEN (University of Houston)
Winning and Preserving Freedom Through Manumission in Eighteenth Century Jamaica

Saturday, October 15

8:15 am - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:30 am Session 3: Institutions and Large-Scale Agriculture
Chair: NAOMI LAMOREAUX

CRAIG PALSSON (Yale University)
Breaking from Colonial Institutions: Haiti’s Idle Land, 1928-1950

AHMED REID (City University of New York, Bronx)
Capital, Credit and the Development of the Sugar Plantation Complex in the British West Indies

10:30 am - 11:00 am  Coffee Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm Session 4: Elites in Power and Institutional Change
Chair: JOSÉ ANTONIO ESPÍN SÁNCHEZ   

JENNY GUARDADO (Georgetown University)
Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru

BERNARDO MUELLER (University of Brasília)
Development as Search: Beliefs Across Brazilian History

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Session 5: State Capacity
Chair: ANA MARIA IBAÑEZ 

LUZ MARIA ARIAS (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas)
The Legacy of War Dynamics on Fiscal Capacity Building

BILL SUMMERHILL (University of California, Los Angeles)
When is Debt Odious?