Past and Present: Long Term Perspectives on the World Today. 18 October 2002, 10am

Past and Present:
Long-Term Perspectives on the World Today

A One-Day Seminar
Friday 18 October, 10.00 – 16.30 in the ISSC Seminar Room

Programme

10.00 Opening: Professor Mary E. Daly, Chair, Interim Board, Humanities Institute of Ireland, UCD

Introduction: Professor Stephen Mennell (Sociology and ISSC, UCD) ‘Scale and Perspective: the Value of Long-Term Perspectives in History and the Social Sciences’

10.15 Professor Emeritus Johan Goudsblom (Sociology, University of Amsterdam): ‘The Expanding Anthroposphere: Extensive and Intensive Growth Reconsidered’

10.45 Coffee

11.00 Professor Emeritus Eric Jones (Economic History, University of Melbourne) ‘Cryptogams [sic]: the Stock of Institutions in the Pre-industrial West’

11.30 Professor Morgan Kelly (Economics, UCD): ‘Climate and Pre-industrial Population Growth’

12.00–12.45 Discussion

14.00 Professor Cormac Ó Gráda (Economich History, UCD) ‘Adam Smith and Amartya Sen: Markets and Famines in Pre-industrial Europe’

14.30 Professor Kevin O’Rourke (Economic History, Trinity College Dublin) ‘From Malthus to Ohlin: Trade, Growth and Distribution since 1500’

15.00 Professor Robert Holton (Sociology, Trinity College Dublin) ‘When did Globalisation start?

15.30 Tea

15.45 Discussion

16.30 Close