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 [Please forward where there may be interest in the abstract.  Call it 
 
        Will Export of Machinery Make Victorian Britain Rich? 
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        Elmslie, "Convergence and Growth in the Classical Period" 
 
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KRESS SEMINAR, 15 May 97 
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Our last meeting this Spring will be next Thursday evening, 15 May, 
7:40-10 pm, in Littauer M16 on the Harvard campus.  We feature an early 
Victorian debate, in and out of Parliament: 
 
    Bruce Elmslie (U New Hampshire) 
        Theories of Convergence and Growth in the Classical Period: 
        The Role of Science, Technology and Trade 
 
    Co-author: Antoinette James Curtis (Randolph-Macon C) 
 
    Discussant: Paul Harrison (Brandeis U) 
 
    Paper available from the author: Economics/ UNH/ Durham NH 03824 
 
BRUCE ELMSLIE (UNH) teaches that dinosaur, a survey course in the History 
of Economic Thought that is required for graduate students.  He researches 
the Theory of International Trade and its History --especially the dynamic 
aspects, trade in relation to growth and development. 
 
After describing 18c intellectual origins of "concern over convergence" 
(Hume, Tucker, Smith), the authors focus on the policy debate regarding 
free trade in machinery in "the Classical Period" (Torrens, Babbage, 
newspapers, Parliament).  Some crucial concepts of the actors are 
international economic convergence as "parasitism" or "contagion", thus 
leveling down or leveling up; and scientific and technological innovation 
as naturally limited or limitless. 
 
PAUL HARRISON researches Stock Markets, the Theory of Finance, and their 
History --from tulips in 17c Amsterdam to business schools in the 1990s. 
 
Dinner 
    Anyone interested in dinner and conversation before the seminar is 
    invited to gather at the Singha House Thai restaurant (1105 Mass. Ave) 
    at 6:00.  The food is great, matched only by the company.  The Singha 
    House is prepared to handle late additions to a party (to about 6:30 
    for dinner or 7:00 for appetizer or drink, given our time constraint). 
 
I hope to see you Thursday, 
 
                                P/\/\/\/\/t  [imagine my signature] 
 
---- 
    Paul Wendt, Watertown MA 
    Director, Kress Seminar in the History of Economic Thought 
    Asst.Editor, History of Economics Society e-infor,atopm services 
 
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