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The Global Politics of Public Debts, from the Late Eighteenth Century
Convened by Nicolas BARREYRE (EHESS-CENA), Nicolas DELALANDE (Centre for History at Sciences
Po) and Alexia YATES (CRASSH, University of Cambridge)
June 11-12, 2015 Centre for History and Economics,
Cambridge (UK)
Venue: The Parlour, First Court,
Magdalene College, University of Cambridge http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/uploads/Maps_Layouts/CollegeMapfullsize.jpg
Faculty of History George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund
For further information, please contact ihm22@cam.ac.uk
June 11, 2015 9:30-10am: Welcome / coffee 10-11am: Introduction—Questions, Approaches, Objectives
• Alexia YATES, Nicolas DELALANDE, Nicolas BARREYRE 11am-12:45pm: Public Credit and Political Regimes
Discussant: Pedro RAMOS PINTO (University of Cambridge) Discussion on the papers by: • Patrik WINTON (Uppsala Universitet). “Global Capital in Scandinavia: The
Political Economy of Government Borrowing in Denmark and Sweden, 1760-1815”
• Stefanie MIDDENDORF (Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg). “State Effects: The Public Debt and the Change of Political Regimes in Germany, 1918-1938”
• Matthieu REY (Collège de France). “Debts and Taxation: Building Economic Sovereignty in Iraq and Syria (1946-1952)”
1-2pm: lunch 2-3:45pm: Debt, Money, and Taxation
Discussant: Martin DAUNTON (University of Cambridge) Discussion on the papers by: • Stephen SAWYER (American University of Paris). “Make Money Not War:
Taxation and Debt in the Fiscal Revolution of the 1870s” • Alexander NÜTZENADEL* (Humboldt Universität). “The Road to Indebtedness?
Fiscal Policy and Debt Management in Italy from the Nineteenth Century” • Anush KAPADIA (City University London). “India’s Fiscal-Monetary Machine:
Construction and Overheating, c. 1966-1991” • Éric MONNET (Banque de France). “Blurring the Lines between Monetary and
Fiscal Financing of Public Debt after World War II: The French Case in European Perspective”
3:45-4:15pm: coffee break 4:15-6pm: Financial Citizenship and Domestic Debts
Discussant: Adam TOOZE (Yale University) Discussion on the papers by: • Alexia YATES (University of Cambridge). “Reason and Imagination: The Lottery
Bond and the Culture of Public Debt in Nineteenth-Century France” • Noam MAGGOR (Tel Aviv University / University of Pennsylvania). “Austerity,
Democracy, and the Subnational Politics of Market Integration in the United States (Late Nineteenth Century)”
• Juan FLORES* (Université de Genève). “Latin America’s Domestic Debt Markets in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Missed Opportunity?”
• Kristy IRONSIDE (Higher School of Economics, Moscow). “‘Compulsory-Voluntary’: Soviet State Bonds and the Boundary Between Taxes and Investments”
7pm: Dinner for Participants
June 12, 2015 9-10:45am: International Lending and Contested Sovereignties
Discussant: David TODD (King’s College London) Discussion on the papers by: • Ali Coskun TUNCER (UCL). “‘Sultan’s Wisdom’: Debt, Default and Control in
the Ottoman Empire, 1854-1914” • Malak LABIB (Aix-Marseille Université). “Redefining the Public Realm: Debt
Restructuring, ‘Political Reform’ and Imperial Expansion in Egypt (1875-1882)”
• Anastassios ANASTASSIADIS (McGill University). “The (Un)Bearable Lightness of Limited Sovereignty? Debt, International Control and State Formation in Greece, 1857-1927”
• James T. SPARROW* (University of Chicago). “Sovereign Debt: The Mass Politics of Bretton Woods and American Extraterritorial Governance after World War II”
10:45-11:15am: coffee break 11:15am-1pm: The Political Economy of Public Debts
Discussant: Duncan NEEDHAM (University of Cambridge) Discussion on the papers by: • D’Maris COFFMAN (University College London). “Who Really Paid and Why?
Revisiting the Thorny Question of the Economic Incidence of Excise Taxation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain”
• Dong YAN (UCLA). “Chinese Public Credit, 1870-1910: Effects on Regional and Social Inequality”
• Adam TOOZE (Yale University). “Politics in a Time of Debt: Affluence and Deficits in the West, 1970-2014”
• Benjamin LEMOINE* (CNRS). “How the State Became a Regular Borrower: The Treasury and the Commodification of French Sovereign Bonds (1960-2012)”
1-2pm: lunch 2-4:30pm: Conclusion: Collective Discussion on Our Collaborative Work and Book Project Final discussion amongst participants will be held in CRIPPS 3, Magdalene College:
http://conference.magd.cam.ac.uk/find-us
(Note: names followed by * indicate participants who will send a paper but will not be able to be present during discussions.)
With the support of: “Emergences” Program, City of Paris
Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge Labex TEPSIS
Mondes Américains (EHESS-CNRS) Trevelyan Fund, History Department, University of Cambridge
Economic History Society
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