2006 Sessions for Joel Mokyr

 
Sunday
2:15 - 4:00 p.m.
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Session 132K*
The Rise and Decline of Nations After 25 Years: Papers in Honor of Mancur Olson and His Presidency of the SEA

Organizers:

Dennis C. Coates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Session Chairs:

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Papers:

"The Decline of Distributional Coalitions and the British Industrial Revolution, 1688-1846"
Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
John V. Nye, Washington University in Saint Louis

"Did the South Fall Again? An Evaluation of Olson's RADON Hypotheses After 25 Years"
David Schweikhardt, Michigan State University
William Knudson, Michigan State University

"Mancur Olson and Economic Development"
Christopher Clague, San Diego State University (Contact Author)

"Institutional Sclerosis and the Bounded Rationality of Political Agents"
Ivo Bischoff, University of Giessen (Contact Author)

Discussants:

David Mitch, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Randall G. Holcombe, Florida State University
Bonnie Wilson, Saint Louis University
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., James Madison University


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