Dear all,
The following workshop may be of interest to some of you.

http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/activites/ws/?id=85

Best wishes,
Philipppe Fontaine


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H2S Workshop Series
Economic History and History of Economics Workshop

Thursday, 2 April 2009
École normale supérieure (Jourdan)
48, bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris

Morning session: 10.00-12.30 - Room #A2

V. Markham Lester (Birmigham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama)
Bankrupt women entrepreneurs: Observations on 
women-owned and operated businesses in late 
nineteenth and early twentieth-century England

Paolo Di Martino (University of Manchester) & Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (EHESS)
Insolvency law and practice in historical 
perspective: A European comparative view (c.1880-1913)

Afternoon session: 14.00-17.30 - Room #10

Loïc Charles (Université de Reims & INED) & 
Guillaume Daudin (Université de Lille & OFCE)
The Bureau of the balance of trade and the 
production of foreign trade statistics in France during the 18th century

Jean-Pierre Beaud & Jean-Guy Prévost (Université du Québec à Montréal)
The politics of objectivity: Canada's statistical regimes, 1800-2008

Emmanuel Didier (CNRS, CESDIP, Paris)
Counting ears: Democracy, statistics and the making of the New Deal

Contact: Claire Lemercier ([log in to unmask])
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