WEast is organizing two sessions during the ESSHC 2014 in Vienna that relate to the history of the economic development of Eastern Europe. All people interested in the topic are welcome to participate.
E-9 - ECO09: Economic Development in the Age of Nation Building: New Perspectives on the Economic History of Central and South-Eastern Europe in the Late 19th and early 20 Centuries
Hörsaal 34 raised ground floor
| Network: Economic History | Chair: Alexander Klein |
| Organiser: Tamas Vonyo | Discussant: Alexander Klein |
Tomas Cvrcek, Miroslav Zajicek: School, What is it Good for? The Politics and Economics of Public Education in 19th Century Habsburg Empire
Max-Stephan Schulze, P. Caruana-Galizia: Empires Diverging: A Spatial Analysis of Habsburg and German Regional GDP, 1870-1910
G-10 - ECO04: Rent Seeking Institutions and the Little Divergence: The Economic Impact of Serfdom and Guilds in Pre-industrial Europe
Hörsaal 23 first floor
| Network: Economic History | Chair: Jan Luiten van Zanden |
| Organiser: Mikolaj Malinowski | Discussants: Tracy Dennison, Jan Luiten van Zanden |
Alexander Klein, Sheilagh Ogilvie: Occupational Structure in the Czech Lands Under the Second Serfdom
Mikolaj Malinowski: Serfs and the city; market conditions, surplus extraction institutions and urban growth in Poland, 1500-1772
Miguel Peman: The Rise of the Craft Guild System. Evidence from Italy, Belgian and Dutch Cities (1200-1800).
Igor Zurimendi: Abolition of Serfdom and the Growth of Cities in Eastern Europe
