{"id":3357,"date":"2023-07-18T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=3357"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:52:05","slug":"linda-and-harlan-martens-economic-history-forum-past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/seminar-series\/linda-and-harlan-martens-economic-history-forum\/linda-and-harlan-martens-economic-history-forum-past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda and Harlan Martens Economic History Forum Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 8, 2025<\/strong>
\n“The Foreign Wealth of Nations”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forum Leader
\nJacob Soll, USC<\/p>\n

Co-Organizers
\nJessica Hanser, University of Copenhagen
\nEllen Nye, Purdue University
\nPernille R\u00f8ge, University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n

Participants
\nTonio Andrade, Emory University
\ndiscussant<\/p>\n

Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
\n“Bubble Colony: Saint-Domingue and the Debt of France”<\/p>\n

Jessica Hanser, University of Copenhagen
\n“Commercial Divergences in Canton on the Eve of the Great Divergence, 1750-1800”<\/p>\n

Gibin Hong, Karl Polynayi Institute, Seoul
\n“The Japanese Emulation of the Founding of the Bank of England”<\/p>\n

Charles Chih-Hao Lee, Academica Sinica, Taiwan\/UC Berkeley
\n“Bureaucracy and the Origins of Modernity: Revisiting Joseph Needham’s Question in the Context of British Socialism”<\/p>\n

Ellen Nye, Purdue University
\n“Levant Company Merchants between the English and Ottoman Empires, c. 1700”<\/p>\n

Pernille R\u00f8ge, University of Pittsburgh
\n“The Powers that Be: Dutch and British Merchant Bankers and the Danish Colonial Empire”<\/p>\n

Richard von Glahn, UCLA
\n“The Rise and Demise of Paper Money in China (1000-1500)”<\/p>\n

Meng Zhang, UCLA
\n“Capitalism and the Market Economy: Connections, Differences, and Implications for the Early Modern World”<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 20, 2025<\/strong>
\n“Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark Blyth, Brown University
\nSaori N. Katada, USC, moderator<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by USC Dornsife Center for International Studies, USC School of Philosophy, and USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 24, 2024<\/strong>
\n“Empires and the Origins of Capitalism”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiraana Bains, Brown University
\n“Budgeting India: The Making of a British Imperial State in South Asia”<\/p>\n

Alejandra Irigoin, London School of Economics
\n“Private Trade Finance and Religion in the Catholic Environment”<\/p>\n

Kris Lane, Tulane University
\n“What was Patos\u00ed, Bolivia, worth in the mid-17th Century?”<\/p>\n

Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago
\n“Money and the Origins of Capitalism”<\/p>\n

Jared Lucky, Yale University
\n“The Imperial Origins of Consumer Protection Law: The Case of Massachusetts Bay, 1692-1771”<\/p>\n

Ellen Nye, Harvard University
\n“The Entangled Origins of Capitalism: Making Money between the English and Ottoman Empires”<\/p>\n

Asheesh Siddique, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
\n“Conceptualizing Difference Before Universal Economic Laws”<\/p>\n

Abigail Swingen, Texas Tech University
\nCommentator<\/p>\n

Junko Takeda, Syracuse University
\n“Failure as a Category of Study: Louis XIV and Entrepreneurial Imperialism in Persia and Siam”<\/p>\n

Andre Wakefield, Pitzer College
\n“The Dutch Republic Comes to the Harz Mountains: Pieter Hartzing in Clausthal”<\/p>\n

Carl Wennerlind, Barnard University
\n“The Epic Showdown between Two Political Economies that Shaped both Economics and Capitalism”<\/p>\n

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2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 18, 2023<\/strong>
\n“Empires, Market-Building, and the Origins of Capitalism”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pernille R\u00f8ge, University of Pittsburgh
\n“A Gateway to Empire: Amsterdam Merchant Bankers and the Danish West Indies, 1760s\u20131790s”<\/p>\n

Abigail Swingen, Texas Tech University
\n“Trade, Colonization, and Empire: Financing the Financial Revolution”<\/p>\n

Manuel Covo, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n“The Economic Consequences of the Seven Years’ War in Continental Europe”<\/p>\n

Regina Grafe, European University Institute
\n“Financialisation and Moral Capitalism in the Spanish Empire”<\/p>\n

B\u00e9la Kapossy, University of Lausanne
\n“Corporatism and Free Trade: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Switzerland”<\/p>\n

Koji Yamamoto, University of Tokyo
\n“Mercantilism and Imperial Markets Reconsidered: The Westminster Soap Company, c. 1631\u20131640”<\/p>\n

Mark Hanna, University of California, San Diego
\n“Piratical Markets in the Early Modern World”<\/p>\n

Ellen Nye, Harvard University
\n“Turning Global Coinage into Imperial Money: Reasserting Ottoman Monetary Sovereignty under Mustafa II”<\/p>\n

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2022<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, February 19, 2022<\/b>
\n“The Classical Tradition and the Making of Knowledge”<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Anthony Grafton, Princeton University, Huntington Library Fellow<\/p>\n

Frederic Nolan Clark, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cOn the Presence of Absence: Fragments in the Early Modern Classical Tradition\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Maya Maskarinec, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Genealogies and Domestic Spaces of Early Christian Saints in Early Modern Rome”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Anna-Luna Post, University of Amsterdam \/ USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cMemory and Infamy: The Case of Galileo\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Susanna Berger, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cAnamorphoses as Actualized Allegories”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Stolzenberg, UC Davis<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThe Age of Pious Erudition\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristine Haugen, Cal Tech<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cClassical Anxiety and the Sounds of English Poetry\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian Flow, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cInstantaneity, Futurity, Immortality: Timing the Work of an Eighteenth-Century Professor\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Giovanna Ceserani, Stanford<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Learning to Scythe: the eighteenth-century classical traveler and the agricultural sketch”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Roundtable and General Discussion:<\/span>
\n<\/span>Daniela Bleichmar, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>Jacob Soll, USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>Dan Edelstein, Stanford<\/span>
\n<\/span>Arthur Weststeijn, U of Amsterdam \/ USC<\/span>
\n<\/span>Summation: Anthony Grafton, Princeton University \/ Fellow, the Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>Closing Discussion: Paula Findlen, Stanford<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library\/Online<\/span><\/p>\n

2020<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Canceled (COVID)<\/b>
\n“French Economic Thought and the Enlightenment”<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Paola Bertucci, Yale University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Fabric of Enlightenment: Improvement, Useful Knowledge, and Embodied Skill”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Guillaume Calafat, Institute for Advanced Study<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War?: French Trade with North Africa during the 18th century”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Edelstein, Stanford University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cSocietas, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s, and Society: Corporations in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Antoine Lilti, \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The perils of discredit: Public credit and national confidence in Enlightenment debates”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Darrin M. McMahon, Dartmouth College<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cLighting the Enlightenment with a Quaker Colony in France: The Atlantic Whale Oil Crisis of the 1780s and and the Nantuckois of Dunkirk”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Arnaud Orain, University of Paris<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Sophus Reinert, Harvard University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Political Economy Against the Enlightenment”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Pernille Roege, University of Pittsburgh<\/span>
\n<\/span>“‘A Practical Science’: Creole Economic Thought and the French Chambers of Agriculture in the Americas, 1759-1787”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Emma Rothschild, Harvard University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“M. Enveloppe and Infinite History”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Anoush F. Terjanian, University of Ottawa<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The problem of the ‘gouleau \u00e9troit’: Mably\u2019s critique of Physiocracy (and beyond)”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Maritime and Commercial Law before Colbert”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Respondents
\n<\/span>Lynn Hunt, UCLA<\/span>
\n<\/span>Margaret Jacob, UCLA<\/span>
\n<\/span>Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, USC<\/span><\/p>\n

2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, November 30, 2018<\/b>
\n<\/b>Sophus Reinert, Harvard University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Medici Grand Dukes and the Development of Political Economy 1500-1700”<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday, March 9, 2019<\/b>
\n“Natural Law and Economic Thought”<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Edelstein, Stanford University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cFree-Market Metaphysics: Augustine, Jansenism, Physiocracy, and the Origins of Laissez-Faire Capitalism”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Newtonian Universe and the Pursuit of Self-Interest”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

David Grewal, Yale University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cPufendorf on the Commercial Oeconomy\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Cross, Georgetown University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Unnatural Exchanges: Commerce and Conquest in Eighteenth-Century French Visions of India”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Philip Stern, Duke University<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThe Corporation and Early Modern International Thought\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebecca Spang, Indiana University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Nature of Money\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Nomi Stolzenberg, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cInvisible Hands and Dirty Hands: Accommodating Complicity in Early Modern Economic Thought\u201d<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Vanessa Ogle, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Friedrich Hayek, Natural Law, and Neoliberalism”<\/span><\/p>\n

2018<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, February 9, 2018<\/b>
\n“Political Economy in Britain\u2019s Atlantic Empire, c. 1500-1800: Geography, Practices, and Politics”<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Philip Stern, Duke University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Circles of Commerce: Spatial Thought and the Political Economies of Seventeenth-Century English Expansion”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Hannah Farber, Columbia University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Where Do You Get Your Insurance?: Oceans, Nation, and the Political Problem of Marine Underwriting”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Asheesh Siddique, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>“George Chalmers and the Archives of Imperial Political Economy”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Fidel J. Tav\u00e1rez, University of Chicago<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Spanish Monarchy as an Imperial Machine, c. 1740-1796”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Leveraging Outside the Lines: India and the Economy of the English Atlantic”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Cross, Florida State University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Geopolitics of Monopoly: The French East India Company and the Political Economy of the Eighteenth-Century French Empire”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Concluding roundtable:<\/span>
\n<\/span>Jorge Ca\u00f1izares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin<\/span>
\n<\/span>Vanessa Ogle, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>Jacob Soll, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>Huntington Library<\/span><\/p>\n

2017<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, March 24, 2017<\/b>
\n“The First Modern Economy: Golden Age Holland and the Work of Jan de Vries”
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maarten Prak, Utrecht University, Netherlands<\/span>
\n<\/span>“The Artisan Revolution and the Industrious Revolution, or, How the Quality of Labour Started to Improve in the Middle Ages”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Jane Humphries, Oxford University<\/span>
\n<\/span>“More Work on ‘Industriousness’”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Trevor Jackson, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Neither Malthus nor Keynes: The Modernity of Dutch Decline”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Philip T. Hoffman, Caltech<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Local Credit and the Industrious Revolution”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley<\/span>
\n<\/span>“My search for useful organizing concepts in historical studies: transitions, revolutions, crises, and divergences”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles<\/span>
\n<\/span>Comment and general discussion<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

2016<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, April 29 &<\/b>\u00a030, 2016
\nGlobal Leadership Summit<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Ed Balls, Harvard University<\/span>
\n<\/span>J\u00f6rg Asmussen, former European Central Bank board member and member of the German Ministry of Finance<\/span>
\n<\/span>David Walker, senior strategic advisor for PricewaterhouseCoopers and former head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office<\/span>
\n<\/span>Wolker Wieland, German Council of Economic Experts<\/span>
\n<\/span>Evangelos Venizelos, former deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Hellenic Republic<\/span>
\n<\/span>Thomas Miller, former U.S. Ambassador to Greece<\/span>
\n<\/span>William W. Holder, Dean of the USC Leventhal School of Accounting<\/span>
\n<\/span>Jacob Soll, University of Southern California<\/span>
\n<\/span>University of Southern California<\/span><\/p>\n

2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 12, 2015
\n<\/strong>“State Finance & Political Accountability in 18th-c. Britain”<\/strong>
\nForum Director: Jacob Soll, USC<\/p>\n

Presenters:<\/p>\n

Paul Seaward, The Parliament, UK
\n“Building the parliamentary state: government finance and the routine of accountability, 1689\u20131800”<\/p>\n

Larry Neal, University of Illinois
\n“Accounting for the transition from personal to impersonal exchange in Britain’s financial revolution”<\/p>\n

William Deringer, MIT
\n“‘Intrinsick Values’: The South Sea Bubble and the Early-Modern Politics of Modern Financial Analysis”<\/p>\n

2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, February 12, 2014<\/b>
\nState Finance and Political Accountability in 18th Century Britain<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Seaward, Director of Historical Research, the Parliament, United Kingdom<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Building the parliamentary state: government finance and the routine of accountability, 1689-1800”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Larry Neal, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Accounting for the transition from personal to impersonal exchange in Britain’s financial revolution”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

William Deringer, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/span>
\n<\/span>” ‘Intrinsick Values’: The South Sea Bubble and the Early Modern Politics of Modern Financial Analysis”<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Tim Harris, Professor of European History, Brown University<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Closing Comments<\/span>
\n<\/span>Steve Hindle, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, Huntington Library<\/span>
\n<\/span>Roundtable Discussion<\/span>
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