The Hoover Institution hosts the Inaugural Conference Of The Working Group on the Foundations of Long-run Prosperity on June 2–3, 2022.
Understanding how and why economies prosper, stagnate, or wither is a question of first-order importance, but our knowledge about the process of economic growth is surprisingly thin. Indeed, if growth was well understood as a scholarly matter, policies based on theory and empirics would have produced convergence in levels of economic development across countries, rather than divergence. The inaugural conference of the Working Group on the Foundations of Long-Run Prosperity provides an opportunity to evaluate socially useful research that leverages recent advances in several fields of scholarship, and to analyze the implications that may be drawn from those research results for academic and policy-focused audiences.
| Thursday, June 2 | |||
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8:30 AM |
Breakfast |
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9:00 AM |
Welcome: Stephen Haber, Hoover Institution & Stanford University |
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9:15 AM |
“The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population” by Chad Jones |
Presenter: Chad Jones, Stanford University |
Discussant: Ian Morris, Stanford University Discussant: Samuel Kortum, Yale University Chair: Amit Seru, Hoover Institution & Stanford University |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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11:00 AM |
“The Ecological Origins of Economic and Political Systems” by Stephen Haber, Roy Elis, and Jordan Horrillo |
Presenter: Stephen Haber, Hoover Institution & Stanford University Presenter: Jordan Horrillo, Stanford University |
Discussant: Steven Davis, University of Chicago Discussant: Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago Chair: Daniel Kessler, Hoover Institution & Stanford University |
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12:15 PM |
Lunch |
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1:15 PM |
“The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures” by Leander Heldring, James Robinson, and Sebastian Vollmer |
Presenter: James Robinson, University of Chicago |
Discussant: Justin Grimmer; Hoover Institution & Stanford University Discussant: William Summerhill, UCLA Chair: Anna Grzymala-Busse, Hoover Institution & Stanford University |
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2:30 PM |
Break |
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3:00 PM |
“Paper Money In The Late Qing And Early Republic, 1820-1935” by Matthew Lowenstein |
Presenter: Matthew Lowenstein, Hoover Institution |
Discussant: Ross Levine, UC Berkeley Discussant: Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago Chair: Avidit Acharya, Stanford University |
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4:15 PM |
Conclusion of June 2nd program |
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6:00 PM |
Dinner |
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| Friday, June 3 | |||
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| Time | Content | Presenters/panelists | Discussant/CHAIR |
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8:30 AM |
Breakfast |
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9:00 AM |
“The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution” by W. Walker Hanlon |
Presenter: W. Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University |
Discussant: Vicky Fouka, Stanford University Discussant: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Caltech Chair: Josiah Ober, Stanford University |
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10:15 am |
Break |
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10:45 am |
“Did Railways Affect Literacy? Evidence from India” by Latika Chaudhary and James Fenske |
Presenter: Latika Chaudhary, Naval Postgraduate School |
Discussant: Alex Galetovic, Hoover Institution & Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Discussant: Amit Seru, Hoover Institution & Stanford University Chair: Dorothy Kronick, University of Pennsylvania |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch - Discussion: Lessons Learned and New Questions |
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