April 27 – 28, 2018
Friday
2pm - Welcome by Francesca Trivellato (Yale University)
2:10-2:40 - Regina Grafe (European University Institute, Florence)
- The Political Economy of Competition, Collaboration, and Emulation in the Early Modern Atlantic
2:40-3:10 - Gregory O’Malley (University of California, Santa Cruz)
- The Slave Trade in Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Experiments with Free Trade
3:10-4:10pm - Discussion chaired by Sophus Reinert (Harvard Business School)
4:10pm - Coffee break
4:30pm - KEYNOTE: Lauren Benton (Vanderbilt University)
- Protecting the British Empire of Trade
Saturday
9:30-10 - Corey Tazzara (Scripps College)
- The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World, 1574-1790
10-10:30 - Guillaume Calafat (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
- Mare Liberum, Mare Clausum, and the Mediterranean Background: Legal and Theoretical Weapons in the ‘Battle of the Books’
10:30-11 - Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College)
- Oeconomie and Commerce during Sweden’s Age of Freedom: Christopher Polhem on Economic Liberty and Monopolies
11-12:15 - Discussion chaired by Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht University)
Lunch Break
1:45-2:15 - Pernille Røge (University of Pittsburgh)
- Free Ports, Emulation, and Protection in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
2:15-2:45 - Silvia Marzagalli (Université de Nice)
- French Colonial Policy, Warfare, and Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Trade: Adjustment Mechansims Beyond Protected Markets
2:45-3:15pm - Lauren Clay (Vanderbilt University)
- Big Business and the Invention of Democracy: Economic Lobbying during the Early French Revolution
3:15-4:30 - Discussion chaired by Paul Cheney (University of Chicago)