3rd Annual Clemson Symposium on Economic Growth and Development

John E. Walker Department of Economics

Clemson University

Monday April 30, 2007

Madren Conference Center

Please RSVP to Debbie Cornett by April 13 -- dholbro@clemson.edu or 864-656-3969 -- for purposes of planning lunch

9:00 – 10:15 "Medium Term Growth Reversals"

David Cuberes & Michal Jerzmanowski, Clemson University

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:45 "Underdevelopment: Disintegration and Property Rights"

John McDermott, University of South Carolina

11:45 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:15 "Inequality in Land Ownership, the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions and the Great Divergence"

Oded Galor, Brown University

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:45 "The Market for Ideas and the Origins of Economic Growth in Eighteenth Century Europe"

Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University)