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In the December 2003 issue of the JOURNAL, in the review of his book, The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650–1770, appearing on pages 1154–55, the author's name was misspelled. The correct spelling is Ormrod.

2003 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

The editors and the Association wish to thank all those who were program committee members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, and local arrangement committee members at the 2003 Economic History Association Meetings.

2004 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 10–12 SEPTEMBER 2004

The sixty-fourth annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held at the Fairmont San Jose in San Jose, California, 10–12 September 2004. The preliminary program follows.

Location, Location, Location: The Geography of Invention and Innovation

AnnaLee Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley, “Perspectives on Silicon Valley” Dee Sutthiphisal, McGill University, “The Geography of Invention in High- and Low-Technology Industries: Evidence from the Second Industrial Revolution” Petra Moser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, “Do Patents Encourage Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from the Geographic Location of Innovations at the Crystal Palace”

Long Run Economic Growth and Inequality

Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Georgetown University and Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, “Long-Run International Inequality in Human Development and Real Income: Evidence from Europe and the New World” Chiaki Moriguchi, Northwestern University and NBER, and Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley, “The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1887–2003: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics” Robert Gordon, Northwestern University and NBER, “Two Centuries of Economic Growth: Europe Chasing the American Frontier”

Government Policy towards Innovations

John Wallis, University of Maryland, and Barry Weingast, Stanford University, “Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and not the American National Government” Steve Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Antitrust and Innovation Policy in Early Cold War America”

Social Welfare in Victorian Britain

George Boyer, Cornell University, and Timothy Schmidle, Cornell University, “Poverty among the Elderly in Victorian Britain” Jason Long, Colby College, “The Economic Return to Primary Schooling in Victorian England”

Collective Institutions and Collective Invention

S. R. Epstein, London School of Economics, “Craft Guilds and Property Rights to Technical Knowledge in Premodern Europe, c.1300–c.1800”

Robert Merges, University of California, Berkeley, “Medieval Guilds Redux: Contemporary Institutions for Collective Invention” Paul David, Stanford University, “Patronage, Reputation, and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution: The Historical Origins of ‘Open Science’ Institutions”

Industrialization and Urbanization

Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University and NBER, Fred Bateman, University of Georgia, and Robert Margo, Vanderbilt University and NBER, “Capital Deepening in American Manufacturing, 1850–1880” Sukkoo Kim, Washington University, St. Louis and NBER, “Industrialization and Urbanization: The U.S. Experience, 1820–1920” Debin Ma, (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan, “The Industrial Revolution in the Prewar Lower Yangzi Region of China”

Chalk and Talk: Science, Academia, and Innovation

David Mowery, University of California Berkeley, HBS, and Bhaven Sampat, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Why did U.S. Universities begin Patenting and Licensing during the 1970s?” Megan MacGarvie, Boston University, “Academic Science and the Growth of Industrial Research” Scott Stern, Northwestern University and NBER, “The Evolution of Biological Resource Centers”

The Three Dons: The View from the Spires of Oxford

Liam Brunt, Oxford University, “Labour Productivity in Arable Agriculture around the World, 1700–1870” Robert Allen, Oxford University, “The Nitrogen Hypothesis and the English Agricultural Revolution: A Biological Approach” Knick Harley, Oxford University, “The North Atlantic Meat Trade and its Institutional Consequences”

Firms and Inventors in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Naomi Lamoreaux, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Kenneth Sokoloff, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, “The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story?” Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University and NBER, “The Names Game: Using Inventors’ Patent Data in Tracing Mobility” Mary O'Sullivan, INSEAD, “Technology, Investment, Finance and Performance in the Second Industrial Revolution”

Financial Markets and Institutions

Noel Maurer, ITAM, and Stephen Haber, Stanford University, “Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico” Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, ENS, Paris, and Muriel Petit-Konczyk, Lille, ESA, “The Development of the Paris Bourse in the Interwar Period” Yadira Gonzalez de Lara, Alicante, “Contractual Responses to Institutional Changes: An Historical Institutional Analysis”

Plenary Session 6

Chair: Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University, President Elect, EHA Paul Romer, Stanford University, “Growth Theory, Economic History, and the Arc of Science” Nate Rosenberg, Stanford University, “Endogenous Changes in Twentieth-Century America”

Institutions and Natural Resources in the American West

Gary Libecap, University of Arizona and NBER, “Transaction Costs and Resistance to Water Rights Transfers: The Legacy and Lessons of the Owens Valley Transfer to Los Angeles” Edward McDevitt, California State University, Northridge, “The Evolution of Irrigation Institutions in California: The Rise of the Irrigation District in California, 1910–1930” Mark Kanazawa, Carleton College, “Miners versus Ditch Companies? Contracting for Water During the California Gold Rush”

The Starbuck Session: Sailing, Whaling and Steamships

David Mitch, University of Maryland, “Was the Shift from Sail to Steam in Ocean Shipping, 1860 to 1912, Skill-Biased?” Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER, “Incentives and Productivity in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry” Raymond Cohn, Illinois State University, “Steamship Competition and Nineteenth-Century Immigration”

The Spread of Innovations: Diffusion and Resistance

Alessandro Nuvolari, Eindhoven University of Technology, B. Verspagen, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Nicholas von Tunzelmann, University of Sussex, “The Diffusion of the Steam Engine in Eighteenth-Century Britain” Alan Olmstead, University of California, Davis, and Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina and NBER, “Farmer Resistance to the Tuberculin-Testing Program to Eradicate Bovine Tuberculosis in the United States, 1893–1941” Wayne Grove, LeMoyne College, and Craig Heinicke, Baldwin-Wallace College, “Diffusion of the Cotton-Picking Machine, 1949–1964”

Productivity in Europe and the United States

Alex Field, Santa Clara University, “Interwar Multifactor Productivity Growth in the United States” Gerben Bakker, University of Essex, “TFP, Social Savings and the Consumer Surplus of the Film Industry, 1900–1938” Marianne Ward, Loyola College, Maryland, and John Devereux, City University of New York, “Benchmark Estimates of U.K./U.S. Sectoral Productivity, 1870–1950”

ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 8–10 APRIL 2005, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS

The 2005 annual conference of the Economic History Society will be hosted by the University of Leicester from 8 to 10 April.

The Conference Programme Committee invites proposals for entire sessions (of 1.75 hours duration) as well as for individual papers. The former should include proposals and synopses for each paper in the session, although the committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be presented in the session if it is accepted. If a session is not accepted, the committee may incorporate one or more of the proposed papers into other panels.

The committee welcomes proposals in all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries, and particularly welcomes papers of an interdisciplinary nature.

For each proposed paper, please send (preferably by e-mail, in MSWord format) a short c.v. and a short abstract of 400–500 words to: Maureen Galbraith, Economic History Society, Department of Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, 4 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK. E-mail: ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk

For full consideration, proposals must be received by Monday, 20 September 2004. Notices of acceptance will be sent to individual paper givers by 19 November 2004.