The Life & Legacy of Douglass North: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of North's Nobel Prize in Economics
Conference Program
March 02, 2018 - March 03, 2018
George Mason University
Founders Hall
Arlington, VA
Friday, March 02, 2018
*PLEASE NOTE: The location of the conference has moved to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University for Friday.
New Location:
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Vernon Smith Hall
3434 Washington Blvd., 4th Floor
Arlington, VA 22201
8:00-8:50 am Registration* and Coffee
Founders Hall Portrait Gallery
8:50-9:00am Opening Remarks by John Nye (George Mason University)
Founders Hall Auditorium
9:00-9:45 am Plenary Talk: Cliometrics & Measurement
Michael Haupert (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Founders Hall Auditorium
9:45-10:00 am Coffee Break
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 126)
10:00-11:30 am Plenary Panel: Institutional Theory
Founders Hall Auditorium
“The Rationality Assumption in North’s Uncertain, Non-ergodic World”
Hugo Eyzaguirre (Northern Michigan University)
“The Ideological Origins of the Rule of Law”
P.J. Hill (Property and Environment Research Center)
“Institutions and the Ontological Nature of Economic Reality”
Ning Wang (The Ronald Coase Institute)
“Coase and North: Transaction Costs, Private and Public Goods, Institutions and Enforcement”
Mario Pastore (Academia Paraguaya de la Historia)
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Luncheon featuring Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 125)
*Luncheon sponsored by The Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington
1:00-2:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Applied Institutions I
Founders Hall Auditorium
“Regulation and Transaction Costs in the American Economy”
Art Carden (Samford University)
Todd C. Henderson (University of Chicago)
“Measuring the Size and Impact of Different Aspects of Governments”
Price Fishback (University of Arizona)
“The Country of Barracks & Schools: How Geography formed Prussia, 1618-1815)”
Thilo R. Huning (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Property Rights and Resources
Founders Hall Classroom 118
“The Legacy of Mexican Land and Water in California”
Gary Libecap (University of California Santa Barbara)
Dean Lueck (Indiana University)
Julio Alberto Ramos-Pastrana (Indiana University)
“Rent Dissipation in the Allocation of Property Rights: Long-Run Consequences of Cash Sales
vs. Homesteads in the West”
Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University)
“Dual Rights to Ground Water: Theory and Application to California”
Louis Sears (Cornell University)
C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell (Cornell University)
“The Evolution of Water Management Institutions in the American West”
Randy Simmons (Utah State University)
Grant Patty (Utah State University)
2:30-2:45 pm Coffee Break
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 126)
2:45-3:30 pm Plenary Talk: Relative Prices, Property Rights, & Transaction Costs
Mary Shirley (The Ronald Coase Institute)
Founders Hall Auditorium
3:30-5:00 pm Plenary Panel: Belief & Cognition
Founders Hall Auditorium
“The Failure of Economic Theory and the Rise of 21st Century Populism”
John N. Drobak (Washington University)
“A Clash of Classification Institutions”
Gillian Hadfield (University of Southern California)
Jens Prüfer (Tilburg University)
Vatsalya Srivastava (Tilburg University)
“Cultural Lag, Path Dependency and the Quality of Government”
Seth W. Norton (Wheaton College)
5:00-5:15 pm Coffee Break
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 126)
5:15-6:00 pm Plenary Talk: Belief & Cognition
Jack Knight (Duke University)
Founders Hall Auditorium
6:00-7:00 pm Reception
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 126)
Saturday, March 03, 2017
8:30-9:00 am Registration* and Coffee
Founders Hall Portrait Gallery
9:00-9:45 am Plenary Talk: Institutions
John Wallis (University of Maryland)
Founders Hall Auditorium
9:45-10:00 am Coffee Break
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 126)
10:00-11:30 am Plenary Panel: Cliometrics & Measurement
Founders Hall Auditorium
“Collective Security, Jurisdictional Conflicts, and Secularization: Catholic Military Alliances
in Europe, 1200-1700”
Imil Nurutdinov (University of California-Los Angeles)
“Mortgage Credit Protection of Property Rights in Spain at the End of the Ancien Régime”
José Luis Peña Mir (University of Barcelona)
“Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China”
Melanie Meng Xue (Northwestern University)
Mark Koyama (George Mason University)
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Luncheon featuring Margaret Levi (Stanford University)
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 125)
1:00-2:30 pm Parallel Sessions
Property Rights and Land
Founders Hall Auditorium
“The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution”
Noel Johnson (George Mason University)
Rapaël Franck (Hebrew University)
Theresa Finely (Susquehanna University)
“Embedded Wealth, Property Rights, and American Frontier”
Robert Holohan (Binghamton University)
“Land Rights and the Limits on Government: Cross-Country Historical Evidence”
Xiaoting Mai (University of Hong Kong)
Chenggang Xu (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
“Property and Poverty on American Indian Reservations”
Bryan Leonard (Arizona State University)
Dominic P. Parker (University of Wisconsin)
Terry L. Anderson (Hoover Institution)
Open Access Orders
Founders Hall Classroom 118
“What Makes a Market Free? A Historical Perspective”
Daria Bokar (Clemson University)
“Corporate Social Responsibility Practice, Past and Present: A Social Orders Perspective”
Stefan Hielscher (Center for Business, Organizations and Society)
Bryan William Husted Corregan (EGADE Business School)
“Mobilizing Law in Developing Countries: Some Implications from Russian ‘Limited Access Order’”
Andrei Yakovlev (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
Anton Kazun (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
2:30-2:45 pm Coffee Break
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 126)
2:45-4:15 pm Plenary Panel: Institutional Change
Founders Hall Auditorium
“The Long Arm of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Institutions on Economics
Development in Peru”
Leticia Arroyo-Abad (Middlebury College)
Noel Maurer (George Washington University)
“Parliament, Property Rights, and Economic Development in England, 1660-1830”
Dan Bogart (University of California-Irvine)
Gary Richardson (University of California-Irvine)
“Did the South Incur in Original Sin? Institutional Quality and the Early Modern Little Divergence”
Leonor Costa (University of Lisbon)
Antonio Henriques (University of Porto)
Nuno Palma (University of Manchester)
“The Western Legal Tradition and the Origins of Liberalism: How Feudalism Enabled the West to
Solve Madison’s Paradox”
Hilton Root (George Mason University)
Cameron Harwick (George Mason University)
4:15-4:30 pm Coffee Break
Founders Hall Multipurpose Room (Room 126)
4:30-5:15 pm Plenary Talk: Violence
Barry Weingast (Stanford University)
Founders Hall Auditorium
*Attendees can register anytime during the conference.
Presenting authors are in bold.