H2S Workshop Series, Paris - 2 april 2009

H2S Workshop Series
Economic History and History of Economics Workshop
Thursday, 2 April 2009
École normale supérieure (Jourdan)
48, bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Morning session: 10.00-12.30 - Room #A2
V. Markham Lester (Birmigham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama)
Bankrupt women entrepreneurs: Observations on women-owned and operated businesses in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England
Paolo Di Martino (University of Manchester) & Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (EHESS)
Insolvency law and practice in historical perspective: A European comparative view (c.1880-1913)
Afternoon session: 14.00-17.30 - Room #10
Loïc Charles (Université de Reims & INED) & Guillaume Daudin (Université de Lille & OFCE)
The Bureau of the balance of trade and the production of foreign trade statistics in France during the 18th century
Jean-Pierre Beaud & Jean-Guy Prévost (Université du Québec à Montréal)
The politics of objectivity: Canada's statistical regimes, 1800-2008
Emmanuel Didier (CNRS, CESDIP, Paris)
Counting ears: Democracy, statistics and the making of the New Deal
Contact: Claire Lemercier (Claire.Lemercier@ens.fr)
Further information at:
http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/activites/ws/?id=85