8th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics

Call for Papers - 8th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics: 11-12 May 2012.

The 2012 annual BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics will be hosted by the University of Strasbourg from 11 to 12 May and organised in association with the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA, http://www.beta-umr7522.fr), the Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC, http://www.cliometrie.org) and Cliometrica (Springer Verlag, http://www.springer.com/journal/11698).

Keynote speaker for the 8th Edition is Oded GALOR, Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics, Brown University and Visiting Professor, MIT (http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Oded_Galor/).

The organization welcomes proposals in all aspects of "Population Cliometrics and
Unified Growth Theory" covering a wide range of periods and countries.

For each proposed paper, please send by e-mail, as soon as possible and before January 1st 2012, a short abstract of 1000-1500 characters.

Speakers who submit a proposal to the Workshop should be able to obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist younger colleagues who are unable to obtain funding from their own institution or from another source. Meals are offered to the
participants during the Workshop at no cost

Please do not hesitate to circulate this call for papers as widely as possible.

Contact for paper proposals and practical matters: Claude DIEBOLT, cdiebolt@unistra.fr