Organizers:

James L. Butkiewicz, University of Delaware

Session Chairs:

James L. Butkiewicz, University of Delaware

Papers:

"Towards a More Perfect American Payments Union: The Civil War as a Watershed in Forging a National Payments System"
John A. James, University of Virginia
David F. Weiman, Columbia University

"The Net Asset Position of the U.S. Government, 1784-1902: Hamilton's Blessing or the Spoils of War?"
Farley Grubb, University of Delaware and NBER (Contact Author)

"The Road to Monetary Disunion: Evidence From the Market for State Bank Currency and Other Payment Instruments, 1858-1862"
Scott A Redenius, Bryn Mawr College (Contact Author)

Discussants:

James L. Butkiewicz, University of Delaware
Mark Wheeler, Western Michigan University
J. Wood, Wake Forest University

Organizers:

Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
John A. James, University of Virginia

Session Chairs:

Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
John A. James, University of Virginia

Papers:

"The Great Arsenal of Democracy: The Political Economy of the County-Level Allocation of World War Two Military Spending"
Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
James Snyder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Koleman Strumpf, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

"From the Great Illusion to the Great War: Military Spending Behavior of the Great Powers, 1870-1913"
Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University (Contact Author)

"When Johnny Came Marching Home: Veterans Benefits By War"
Sung Won Kang, Rutgers University
Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University

Discussants:

John A. James, University of Virginia
Sung Won Kang, Rutgers University
Robert Whaples, Wake Forest University