3rd Meeting of the Caltech Early Modern Group

Laws, Organizations, and Markets

Friday May 14, 2010

Both sessions will take place in Dabney Hall, Treasure Room.

Coffee and pastries 9-9:30

Morning session: 9:30-11:45

Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht), Abe de Jong and Joost Jonkers

An Admiralty for Asia. The Corporate Governance of the Dutch East India Company

Paper

Veronica Aoki-Santarosa (Yale)

Can Joint Liability Solve Information Asymmetries? Evidence from Bills of Exchange”

Paper

Lunch 12:00: Dabney Logia

Afternoon session 2:00-5:00

Francesca Trivellato (Yale)

A forgotten legend about the Jewish origin of European financial capitalism, or, The boundaries of commercial society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France

Dan Bogart (UC Irvine)

Private projects in the Public Sphere: The Evolution of Institutions and Investment in the early British Transport Revolution

Paper

Tracy Denison (Caltech)

Institutions and the Russian Serf Economy: A Tale of Two Landlords

Paper

Dinner: Green Street Tavern 6pm