Economics

All panels, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the Shannon Room, Hubbard Hall, on Saturday and Sunday, October 19-20, 2013.  Precise session times will be announced in Summer 2013.  For more information, please contact Stephen Meardon at 207-725-3907.  A flyer for the event may be viewed by clicking here.

Economics of Slavery, Secession, and Union:

• David M. Levy, Professor of Economics, George Mason University;
  and Sandra J. Peart, Dean and Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
  British Political Economists and Novels of American Slavery

• Brian Schoen, Associate Professor of History, Ohio University
  The Panic of 1860: the Slave Power, Financial Distress, and the Coming of the Civil War

• Harro Maas, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam
  Olmsted, De Bow, and the Weight of Evidence

• Phillip Magness, Academic Program Director, Institute for Humane Studies
  The Political Economy of Colonization from Mathew Carey to Abraham Lincoln

Money, Banking, and Crises:

• Rebeca Gómez Betancourt, Associate Professor of Economics, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France
  The Puzzle of U.S. Antebellum and Postbellum Monetary Theories

• James A. Morrison, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
  Political and Economic Ideas in the Battle for the Second Bank of the United States

Trade Doctrines and Tariff Controversies:

• Stephen Meardon, Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College
  Henry C. Carey's "Zone Theory" and American Sectional Conflict

• William S. Belko, Associate Professor of History, University of West Florida
  "A Tax on the Many, to Enrich a Few": Jacksonian Democracy vs. the Protective Tariff

• Marc-William Palen, Research Associate, U.S. Studies Centre, University of Sydney
  Free Trade, Abolitionism, and Moral Economy in Antebellum America

Economics of Land, Science, and Education:

• Joseph J. Persky, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
  American Political Economy and the Common School Movement: 1820-1850

• Ariel Ron, PEAES Fellow (2012-13), Library Company of Philadelphia
  "Scientific Agriculture" and Economic Development in the American School of Political Economy

Discussants

• Steven G. Medema, Professor of Economics, University of Colorado-Denver

• Patrick Rael, Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College

• Jeff Selinger, Assistant Professor of Government, Bowdoin College

Sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs and the Economics Department