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ATTENTION TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET MADE THEIR HOTEL RESERVATIONS:

The Omni William Penn Hotel is sold out on thursday night 9/14/2006 and only has a few room left for friday and saturday night 9/15 & 9/16. If you are unable to get a room at the Omni we have contracted with the Doubletree Hotel for the overflow. They are across the street from the Omni and have kindly given us a discount on the room rate of $159 for single or doubles. the hotel's address is:

Doubletree Hotel Pittsburgh City Center
One Bigelow Square - Downtown
Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Please call either directly at 1-412-281-5800 or 1-800-222-8733. Mention you are with the "Economic History Association".

Thank you for your patience - this meeting will break all attendance records!

Carolyn Tuttle, Meeting Coordinator 8/10/2006

The Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA

The Program Committee - William Collins(Chair), Ryan Johnson, Mike Haupert, and Zeynep Hansen - invite paper proposals on all topics of economic history. The committee welcomes proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions.

Many of the sessions, however, will be focused on the theme “Frontiers and Institutional Innovation: Property Rights, Production Organization and Governance, and Political Structure.” The program committee encourages submissions that provide a historical or interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which frontiers provide new opportunities and challenges requiring institutional innovation. Frontiers include new geographic or resource settings as well as new technologies and scientific opportunities. The issues include, but are not limited to, the role of frontiers in institutional change:

  • New property rights to physical and intellectual property.
  • New political and legal structures.
  • New production organization and government arrangements.
  • The process of institutional change in these settings.
  • The welfare of institutional change.

Although the committee is interested in any paper the deals with frontiers and institutional change as broadly defined, it will also consider strong papers that are not directly related to the theme of the conference.

All papers must be submitted online at http://eh.net/user/register. Interested scholars are requested to submit a 3-5 page abstract and a 150-word abstract (suitable for publication in the Journal of Economic History) online. Due Date: January 31, 2006.

The dissertation session, convened by Carol Shiue (University of Colorado) and Melissa Thomasson (Miami University), will honor the top six dissertations in economic history completed during the 2005-2006 academic year. Due date: May 31, 2006.

The local arrangements committee will be Werner Troesken, Karen Clay, and Siddharth Chandra. They look forward to welcoming us to their exciting city.

Graduate students are encouraged to attend. Travel and hotel subsidies, registration and meal discounts, and the possibility of scintillating conversation are all offered as enticements.

For further information, visit this site often or contact Meetings Coordinator Carolyn Tuttle at tuttleeha@lfc.edu.