Draft Schedule
MIT Media Lab
Silverman Skyline Room, 6th Floor / Building E-14
75 Amherst Street
Thursday November 29 2012
9.30 a.m.
Welcome: Abhijit Banerjee
Remarks: Emma Rothschild - “Poor History"
Session 1: Poverty in Early Modern Europe
Chair and Commentator: Harriet Ritvo
Brandon Bloch - “Poverty as an Economic Question: Josiah Child and Dudley North on the English Settlement Act”
William Farrell - “Clothing and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century London”
Stephen Thompson - “Charity, Poor Relief, and Poverty in Eighteenth-Century Rural England”
Session 2: Poverty and Childhood
Chair and Commentator: Lakshmi Iyer
Mary Cox - "War, Blockades, and Hunger: Nutritional Deprivation of German Children 1914 - 1924"
Lakshmi Kutty - "Scientific Responses to Tuberculosis: Poverty as Mirage"
Lunch 12:30-1:30
Remarks: Naomi Lamoreaux - "Economic History versus the History of Capitalism"
Session 3: Evidence for the History of Poverty
Chair and Commentator: Emma Rothschild
Alisha Holland - “Research Note on Historical Records of Squatters in Bogotá”
Richard Hornbeck - "When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South"
Andrew Edwards - “Digging for Fire: Gold, Poverty, and Exchange in the Early Republic”
Session 4: Poverty and Slavery
Chair and Commentator: Craig Wilder
Padraic Scanlan - "‘The Anticipated Rewards of Their Exertions’: State Capture and the Economics of the Slave Trade Interdiction, 1808-1820”
Alix Lerner - “Both Property and Pauper: Slavery, Old Age, and the Inverted Logic of Capitalist Exchange”
Friday November 30 2012
MIT, Media Lab
9.30am
Remarks: Janet Chen - "Does poverty in China have a history?"
Session 5: Poverty and Development
Chair and Commentator: Nathan Nunn
Marcella Alsan - “The Effect of the Tse Tse Fly on African Development”
James Feigenbaum - “Information and Investment: Evidence from the Expansion of the Postal Services”
Tyler Goodspeed - "The Great Famine and Irish Loan Funds"
Remarks: Abhijit Banerjee - “The Economic Lives of the Poor”
End 12.30pm