Appalachian Spring Conference 2011
Registration and Keynote Address – Grandfather Ballroom
- 7:30-8:00am: Light Refreshments and Registration (Provided by McGraw-Hill Publishers)
- 8:00-8:10am: Welcome to the Conference – Dr.Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University
- 8:10-8:20am: Welcome fromAppalachian State University – Chair of the History Department, Dr. Lucinda McCray
- 8:20-8:30am: Introduction of the Keynote Speaker – Dr. David Dickinson, Appalachian State University
- 8:30-10:00am: Keynote Address and Questions/Discussion, Dr. Price Fishback (University of Arizona) The New Deal: What Worked and What Didn't?
- 10:00-10:30am
Coffee and Refreshments
(Provided by Pearson andW. W. Norton & Company)
Concurrent Sessions
10:30am-12:00pm
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Session A - Panel Discussion: Ethnic Conflicts: Theory, Content, Holding Mechanisms |
Session B: Breakdown and Evolution of Early Institutions |
Session C: Modern Civil Wars and Developing Economies |
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Chair: Dr. Dorothea Martin (ASU) |
Chair: Dr. Stephanie Crofton (High Point University) |
Chair: Dr. Judkin Browning (ASU) |
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Discussant: Dr. Anatoly Isaenko (ASU) |
Dr. George Grantham (McGill University, Canada): Evolution of Agrarian Organization between 400 and 1200 AD Discussant: Dr. Mark Strazicich (ASU) |
Dr. Pavel Osinsky (ASU): Early 20thCentury Civil Wars Discussant: Dr. Jari Eloranta (ASU) |
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Discussant: Mrs. Amy Hudnall (ASU) |
Dr. Mary Valante (ASU): Slavery and the Development of the Household Economy during the Viking Age Discussant: Dr. Stephanie Crofton (High Point University) |
Mr. Wesley Oliphant (University of California – Irvine): Afghanistan from Within: A Look at Afghanistan’s Development through its Provinces Discussant: Mr. Jonathan Billheimer (ASU) |
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Discussant: Dr. John Berta (MethodistCollege) |
Dr. Ed Behrend-Martinez (ASU): Your Money or Your Life: Dowry Restitution, Alimony Payments and the Rhetoric of Wife-Battery in Early Modern Divorces Discussant: Dr. Samuel K. Allen (VMI) |
Mr. Sean Zeigler (Duke University)The Alliance Paradox and Civil War: Failure and Success in Spain and Zimbabwe Discussant: Dr.George Ehrhardt (ASU) |
12:00-1:30pm – Price Lake Room (2ndFloor)
Lunch (Must have pre-registered for this event)
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Session D: Caprice, Coercion, and Cooperation: State Power and Aviation Development in the Early 20th Century |
Session E: American Government-Market Interactions |
Session F: French Government-Market Interactions |
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Chair: Dr. Silvano Wueschner (Air University) |
Chair: Dr. Andrea Burns (ASU) |
Chair: Mr. Jeremy Land (ASU) |
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Dr. Erik Benson (Cornerstone University): Looking the Bull Between the Eyes: the Political Context for Tranportes Aereos Centro Americanos in the 1930s Discussant: Dr. Jari Eloranta (ASU) |
Dr. Alan Singer (ASU): MNCs and Milton Friedman’s1970 Arguments about Business and Society Discussant: Dr. Mike Munger (Duke University) |
Dr. Michael Behrent (ASU): Before the Third Way: Socialism and the Market in 1970s France Discussant: Dr. Mark Wilson (West Virginia Tech University) |
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Dr. Richard Byers (North Georgia College and State University):’Still in the Wild Blue Wonder’: Challenges at the Intersection of Aviation, Business and World History Discussant: Dr. Jari Eloranta (ASU) |
Dr. Neil Canaday (University of South Carolina – Upstate): The Southern Homestead Act: Race, Literacy, and Learning Discussant: Dr. Robert Whaples (Wake Forest University) |
Dr. Barnett Singer (Brock University,Canada): The French Government and the Economic Expropriation of Algeria, 1962 Discussant: Dr. Jim Barnes (ASU) |
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Mr. Robert Rennie (ASU): The Problem of Ernst Heinkel: Nationalism and State Power in Early 20thCentury German Discussant: Dr.Silvano Wueschner (Air University) |
Dr. William Keech (Duke University):Economic Politics Revisited Discussant: Dr. Luis Dopico (Macrometrix) |
Dr. Mark Wilson (West Virginia Tech University) Extending the Monopoly of Champagne, France Discussant: Dr. Michael Behrent (ASU) |
3:00-3:30pm
Coffee and Refreshments
(Provided by University Press of Kentucky and McGraw-Hill Publishers)
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Session G - Panel Discussion: Issuesin Teaching History and Economics |
Session H: Government Regulation |
Session I:Extensions and Symbols of Empire |
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Chair: Dr. Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz (ASU) |
Chair: Dr. Bruce Stewart (ASU) |
Chair: Ms. Sunny Townes (ASU) |
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Discussant: Mrs. Erin Johnston (South Caldwell High School) |
Mrs. Jill Campbell-Miller (University of Waterloo, Canada):’Whether He Lives by the Sea or the Mountains’: Federal Involvement in Canadian Regional Development, 1957-1984 Discussant: Dr. Brian Ellison (ASU) |
Dr. Dorothea Martin (ASU): Crimps, Coolies and Captains: Recruitment and Transport of Chinese Indentured Laborers, 1843-1874 Discussant: Dr. Pamela Nickless (UNC Asheville) |
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Discussant: Mr. Eric Miller (Gaston College) |
Mr. Trent Margrif (ASU): Role of Government in the Economics of Historic Preservation Discussant: Dr. David Dickinson (ASU) |
Ms. Valerie Erickson (East Tennessee State University): Emblems of Empire: How the Ape, Indian and Other Symbols of the British Empire Conquered English Imaginations Discussant: Dr. Michael Turner (ASU) |
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Discussant: Mr. Brian Bookout (Gaston College) |
Dr. Zhiyuan Chen (ASU): The Change of Government Role in Chinese Economic Development in the Last Sixty Years and Its Dilemma in the Future Discussant: Mr. JeremyLand (ASU) |
Dr. Jeremiah Kitunda (ASU): The Botanical Atlantic: The European Colonial Menageries and the Exchange of Exotic Species in Africa 1500 to the Present Discussant: Mr. Jonathan Billheimer (ASU) |
5:30pm – Price Lake Room (2ndFloor)
Dinner (Must have pre-registered for this event)
ASU History Department
ASU College of Arts and Sciences
ASU Office of International Education and Development ASU Business School and Department of Economics Vice Provost Anthony Carey
Dr. John Wallis
Dr. Wallis, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, is among the leading scholars in the world in the study of government finance and institutional change, both in the United States and comparatively. He is the co-author of an influential new book (2009) on violence and social orders with Douglass North and Barry Weingast. His past work includes studies of the New Deal, 19th century American government finances and financial markets; federalism; sovereign debt and bond markets; transaction costs and institutional change; and theories of state formation.
Representative Recent Publications:
BOOKS:
- Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, with Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- American Economic Growth and Standards of Living Before the Civil War with Robert Gallman, NBER, University of Chicago Press, 1992.
- In The Shadow of Violence: The Problem of Development in Limited Access Societies, with Douglass C. North, Stephen Webb, and Barry R. Weingast. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2011.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
- "The Market for American State Government Bonds in Britain and the United States, 1830 to 1843." With Namsuk Kim,
- Economic History Review, November 2005.
- "Violence, Natural States, and Open Access Orders: Implications for Democracy." With Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast, Journal of Democracy, 2009.
- "Lessons from the Political Economy of the New Deal." Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26, 3, 442-462, 2010.
- "Lessons for California from the History of Fiscal Constitutions." With Isabel Rodriguez-Tejedo. California Journal of Politics and Policy, 2, 3, pp. 1-19, 2010.
