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/Centre for History and Economics,University of Cambridge)

June 11-12, 2015 Centre for History and Economics,

Cambridge (UK)

Venue: The Parlour, First Court, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

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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)”

• D’Maris COFFMAN (University College London). “Credibility, Transparency, Accountabilty, and Public Credit under the Long Parliament and Commonwealth, 1643-53”

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: • 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:

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(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