The Economics Network of the Social Science History Association calls for
papers for the 2012 Social Science History Association conference. Please
forward this message to anyone you know who may be interested.
Our apologies for the inevitable multiple receipt of this message for many
of you. You are included on this mailing because within the last several
years you participated in a Social Science History Association panel
sponsored by the Economics Network.
The Social Science History Association conference for 2012 will be held in
Vancouver, British Columbia, from November 1-4. The conference theme is "Histories of Capitalism."
SSHA draws submissions of papers and panels through networks organized by
topic or field. The Economics network representatives are Mark Geiger,
Sumner La Croix, Peter Meyer OR Evan Roberts:
We invite submissions of papers or (preferably) full panels by March 1,
2012. We are also interested to hear from specialists who are willing to
volunteer to be chairs or discussants, and on what topics. For more
information including the conference-wide call for papers, and the other
networks please see the SSHA website at
http://www.ssha.org/annual-conference.
The economics network meeting at the November 2011 meetings generated
numerous ideas for panel sessions, many of which are related to the
conference theme of "Histories of Capitalism," or the meeting location in
Vancouver. Other submissions related to social science history that can be
incorporated into interdisciplinary panels are welcome. Please contact the
network chairs with any questions.
Submissions of either individual papers or whole sessions are welcome. This
year all panels of research papers must have four papers when submitted, or
the panel will not be accepted. (In the past panels of three papers have
been allowed.) You will need to provide an abstract, title and contact
information, and designate a network (or networks) where your paper is
likely to fit. You are free to email us with questions, ideas, etc. but
the actual submission is all self-serve.
Please submit paper and session proposals at http://conference.ssha.org.
Topic areas identified at our 2011 network meeting include those listed
below. Where an email is listed, please contact that person directly to
discuss paper and panel proposals. Other enquiries should be sent to any of
the network representatives listed above.
* Histories of capitalism, approaches from economics and sociology
* Economic research with prison records (Joint with Criminal Justice)
* Centennial of the election of Woodrow Wilson -- consideration of the
economic history of the Wilson years
* Varieties of capitalism, including Chinese capitalism, capitalism on the
Pacific Rim, Asian capitalism, and diaspora capitalism
* The decline of the Japanese model
* The new business history
* Inequality and capitalism
* Centennial of the Federal Reserve Act
* Family indebtedness
* Indigenous population and well being
* Patterns of Household and Family Labor Supply
Matt Nelson notes about his paper for the session above that "My paper is
more specifically on the relationships of household, hired and "neighbor" labor on Minnesota farms in the mid nineteenth century. My argument is that
while not the main labor force (like family or hired labor), neighbor labor
(I broadly defined this as labor between neighbors where payment was in
lending one's labor or capital rather than paying with money or goods) was
not solely a pre-capitalist phenomenon of farms but was to some effect
entrenched in capitalist agricultural processes."
Potential book sessions include:
Douglas Allen, The Institutional Revolution
(http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo11040582.html)
Avner Offer, Insecurity, Inequality, and Obesity in Affluent Societies (OUP,
March)
Robert Van Horn, Philip Mirowski, Thomas A. Stapleford, Building Chicago
Economics (Cambridge, Oct. 2011)
Francesco Boldizzoni, The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History
(http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9476.html)
Daniel Berkowitz & Karen B. Clay, The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography
and Law Shaped the American States
(http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9626.html)
Michael Zakim and Kornblith (eds), Capitalism Takes Command. |
