Meetings take place at the Columbia University Faculty House 7:30-9:00 pm. We have also have drinks 5:30-6:30 and dinner 6:30-7:30. (rsvp required for dinner).
The concerns of this seminar are wide
ranging in time, place, and method. Emphasis is on the logic of European
and American economic growth from feudal times forward with regular, but
less frequent, contributions on Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Topics
range from microeconomic studies of firms undergoing rapid technical change
and households changing their interaction between home and market to more
macroeconomic topics concerned with national and regional economic growth
performance, the economics of imperialism, and the political economy of
the Great Depression. Given the breadth of the seminar’s membership and
interests, comparative economic history is often a central element in
seminar discussions. Pre-circulation of papers permits vigorous discussion.