Friday, 30 May
Welcome and Introduction
10:00-10:15
Panel 1. The First Wave of Globalization
10:15-11:30
Julia Laura Rischbieter (Humboldt)
“The Problematic Nature of the Global Economy. The Invention of the Global Market as a Political Pseudo-Constraint on Economic Policy during the German Empire”
Catherine Davies (Freie Universität Berlin)
"'We are isolated, cut off from abroad...' Debating Financial Panics, Contagion, and Monetary Entanglement in a post-panic world, 1873-1880"
11:30-12:00. Coffee Break
Panel 2. Economic Knowledge after the Great War
12:00-13:15.
Timothy Shenk (Columbia)
“From Money Economy to the Economy: The Case of the National Bureau of Economic Research"
Martin Bemmann (Freiburg)
“‘One World in Statistics’: Did the League of Nations' Survey of Global Economic Processes help to shape the Notion of a Single World Economy?”
13:15-14:30. Lunch
Panel 3. Competing World Visions in the 1930s
14:30-15:45.
Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley/Freie Universität Berlin)
“The Empire of the World Economy: How Mises and Hayek’s Circle started with the Whole Earth”
Hagen Schulz-Forberg (Aarhus/WZB)
“One World for sure but which One?: Transnational Efforts at Norm-making for an Economic Order in the 1930s”
Panel 4. Geneva and the Periphery
15:45-17:00
James R. Martin (Harvard)
“A Thinking Machine for India: The League of Nations and the Invention of National Economies in Asia”
Jose Sanchez Roman (Complutense University of Madrid)
“Multilateralism or Americanization? Latin America, the US and the Fiscal Committee of the League of Nations”
17:00-18:00. Break
18:00-19:15. Keynote Lecture
Patricia Clavin (Oxford)
“Institutional Transformation and the World Economy: Ideas meet Practice”
19:15-20:00. Reception and Refreshments
Saturday, 31 May
Panel 5. Categories: Ocean, Space, Labor
9:45-11:00
Gopalan Balachandran (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
"Atlantic Paradigms and Aberrant Histories: On World Economies Beyond Time and Place"
Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington)
"From Rural Insurgency to the World Economy: Hegel, Weber, Marx"
11:00-11:30. Coffee Break
Panel 6. Global Measurement in the Development Era
11:30-13:15
Malgorzata Mazurek (Columbia)
“Measuring Backwardness: Eastern European Concepts of World Economy and Weltstatistik (1900-1939)”
Daniel Speich Chassé (Lucerne)
“Global Economic Comparison post-1945. Quantification and Sociability in an Emergent World Polity”
Matthias Schmelzer (Geneva)
“Measuring Growth: The international Standardization of National Income Accounting”
Lunch and Coffee. 13:15-14:15
Panel 7. The Neoliberal Transformation of the World Economy?
14:15-15:30
David Kuchenbuch (Gießen)
“Globalism after the Fact? ‘One-World’-Ethics in the Federal Republic of Germany and America in the 1970s and 1980s”
Dieter Plehwe (WZB)
“From Embedded Liberalism to Cosmopolitan Capitalism: Herbert Giersch and the Radicalization of Neoliberal Economic Thought”