Editors' Notes ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETING The fifty-second annual meeting of the Economic History Association will be held in Boston, Massachusetts from September 17 to 20, 1992. The preliminary program follows: Plenary-Session: Consumers and Households in History Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis, Michael Huberman, Trent Univer- sity, and Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis, "The British Food Puzzle." Nancy Folbre and Barnet Wagman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Count- ing Housework: New Estimates of Real Product in the United States." Cissie Fairchilds, Syracuse University, "A Comparison of the Consumer Revolutions in Eighteenth Century Britain and France." The Consuming Unit: Institutions and Households Ann Smart Martin, University of Delaware, "Consumerism and the Retail Trade in Eighteenth Century Virginia." Ann McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Meeting Needs and Sup- pressing Desires: Institutional Consumption in the Dutch Republic." Mary Schweitzer, Villanova University, "Economic Growth, Household Production, and Demand in Early Eighteenth Century Pennsylvania." Consuming Longevity and Health: Children and Adults Paul Huck, Wake Forest University, "Infant Mortality in the Moravian Settlements of North Carolina." Robert Whaples, Wake Forest University, "Anthropometric Evidence from Slova- kian Immigrants in the Early Twentieth Century." David Weir, Yale University, "Parental Consumption Decisions and Child Health during the Fertility Transition, 1740-1913." Consumers, Markets, and Public Utilities David Gable, Queens College, "Pricing Telecommunications Services in a Compet- itive Market." David B. Sicilia, Ohio State University, "Marketing a Regulated Utility: the Case of Boston Edison in the 1920s." Kenneth Lipartito, Harvard Business School, "Marketing the Telephone, Bell's Response to the Consumer Society." Consumption and Production in a Domestic Setting Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph, "Women as Consumers and Producers in Medieval Scottish Towns." Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, University of New Hampshire, "Household Consumption and Production of Textiles in Eighteenth Century New England." Kris Inwood, University of Guelph, and Phyllis Wagg, Dalhousie University, "Consumption and Production of Cloth among Rural Families in Rural Canada." 469 470 Editors' Notes Consumption, Material Culture, and Social Class Whitney Walton, Denison University, "Helpmates, Spendthrifts and Seducers: Bourgeois Women as Consumers in Nineteenth Century France." Lorena Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg, "Fettered Consumers: Slaves and the Anglo- American 'Consumer Revolution." Anton Schuurman, Agriculture University, the Netherlands, "The Construction of Taste, Continuity, and Change in Consumption Patterns in the Nineteenth Century in the Dutch Countryside." Productivity and Consumption in Agrarian Societies Metin Cosgel, University of Connecticut, "Agricultural Productivity of the Amish, 1850-1880." Peter George, Fikret Berkes and Richard Preston, Council of Ontario Universities, "Indigenous Land Use and Harvesting among the Cree in Western James Bay." Terry Von Ende, Texas Tech University, and Tom Weiss, University of Kansas, "Consumption of Farm Output, Output per Worker and Economic Growth by Region, 1800-1840." Consumption and Trade in the Atlantic Economy John Nye, Washington University, "The Unbearable Lightness of Drink: British Wine Tariffs and French Economic Growth, 1689-1860." John Komlos, University of Pittsburgh, "Food Consumption During the Industrial Revolution: the Contribution of the New World." Tony Ward, Brock University, "The Corn Laws and the English Grain Market." Consumers in Rural, Urban, and Suburban Settings Mary Gregson-Eschelbach, University of Illinois, "Rural Response to Urban De- mand." David Weiman, Yale University, "Rural Origins of the New South, 1820-1920: the Dynamics of Regional Urbanization." Lee Craig, North Carolina State University, "Urbanization and the Transformation of Women's Work in Nineteenth Century American Agriculture." Innovation, Enterprise, and the Economy Zorina Khan, Northeastern University, "Entrepreneurship and Innovation during Early American Industrialization." Rick Szostak, University of Alberta and University of New South Wales, "Techno- logical Change and the Great Depression." Chris Grandy, Barnard College, "Original Intent and the Sherman Antitrust Act: A Reexamination of the Consumer Welfare Hypothesis." Housing and Consumer Durables Elyce Rotella, Indiana University, and Kenneth Snowden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Building Associations in the Late Nineteenth Century." Susan Bowden and P. M. Turner, University of Leeds, "The UK Consumer and the Demand for Consumer Durables in the United Kingdom in the Interwar Period." Editors' Notes 471 Greg Whitwell, University of Melbourne, "The Suburban Ideal and Australia's Rise as a Consumer Society." The dissertation session will be chaired by Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis and by Kenneth Sokoloff, University of California, Los Angeles. HAGLEY RESEARCH SEMINAR The Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society will inaugurate in Fall 1992 a monthly research seminar for scholars whose work involves topics in industrialization and the social and cultural dimensions of technological, economic, and urban development. Our interest is chiefly but not exclusively in subjects concerning the United States after 1850, especially the Mid-Atlantic region. Researchers who might wish to offer a paper during the 1992-93 academic year should contact the Director. Travel funds and honoraria are available. In addition, interested scholars and graduate students in the region are invited to become seminar members, again by writing the Director. Seminar members will receive advance copies of papers to be discussed and are welcome to present their own research findings. For further information, contact: Philip Scranton, Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807. ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PUBLICATION SPRING 1992 Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies will award ten or more stipendiary fellowships, and a limited number of non-stipendiary fellowships, for independent study on any aspect of the Italian Renaissance for the academic year 1993/94. The fellowships are for scholars of any nationality, normally post-doctoral and in the earlier stages of their careers. Fellowships run from 1 July 1993 to 30 June 1994. Fellows must be free to devote full time to study and will be expected to spend most of their time at the Center. Application forms may be obtained from Villa I Tatti, Via di Vincigliata 26, 50135 Florence, Italy or the Villa I Tatti office, Harvard University, University Place, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-5762, USA. CALL FOR PAPERS JUNE 3-JUNE 4, 1993 WORLD WAR II: A 50 YEAR PERSPECTIVE Siena College is sponsoring its eighth annual multidisciplinary conference on the 50th anniversary of World War II. The focus for 1993 will be 1943,—though papers dealing with broad issues of earlier years will be welcomed. Topics welcome include: Fascism and Naziism; Stalingrad, New Guinea, the Air War, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, the North Atlantic; Literature; Art; Film; Diplomatic; Political and Military History; Popular Culture, Minority Affairs and Women's and Jewish Studies dealing with the era. Asian, African, Latin American and Near Eastern topics of relevance are solicited. Obviously, collaboration and collaborationist regimes, the events on the home front, religion, conscription and dissent will also be of significance. For information write: Professor Thomas O. Kelly II, Department of History, Siena College, 515 Loudon Rd., Loudonville, New York 12211-1462. Deadline for submissions is December 1, 1992. CONGRESS OF THE "INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC HISTORY" (MILAN. 1994) One of the " B " Themes of the 11th Congress of the "International Association of Economic History" will be the following "European Networks (19th-20th Centuries): 472 Editors' Notes New Approaches to the Formation of a Transnational Transport and Communication System (Air, Land and Sea)." Anyone who is interested in this topic and would like to present a paper should write: Prof. Albert Carreras, "European Networks," Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini, 9, 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (Fi) ITALY. ERRATA A number of errors appear in Table 1, p. 289 of Charles Calomiris's "Is Deposit Insurance Necessary? A Historical Perspective," which appeared in the June 1990 issue of the JOURNAL. The corrected version follows. TABLE 1 HIGH-GROWTH STATES: INSURED VERSUS UNINSURED Uninsured Arkansas Colorado Idaho Iowa Minnesota Missouri Montana New Mexico Wyoming Average Insured Kansas Mississippi Nebraska North Dakota Oklahoma South Dakota Texas Average Proportion in 1914 to of Assets Assets in 1920 National Bank 0.408 0.522 0.341 0.507 0.509 0.490 0.495 0.501 0.314 0.454 0.463 0.506 0.537 0.485 0.309 0.400 0.414 0.447 State Bank 0.379 0.450 0.316 0.503 0.406 0.540 0.489 0.352 0.315 0.418 0.380 0.335 0.335 0.367 0.259 0.351 0.391 0.344 Assets ($ per Bank, 1920 thousands) National State Bank $1,020 1,801 1,088 1,301 1,979 5,507 761 963 1,365 1,755 977 1,843 1,566 563 1,096 862 1,588 1,231 Bank $456 460 487 562 425 572 436 347 300 448 326 664 335 248 346 395 375 391 Ratio of Capital to Total Assets, 1920 National Bank 0.084 0.048 0.059 0.057 0.054 0.063 0.077 0.073 0.048 0.063 0.066 0.069 0.057 0.068 0.060 0.053 0.071 0.064 State Bank 0.085 0.083 0.077 0.067 0.069 0.072 0.091 0.119 0.090 0.084 0.079 0.066 0.082 0.081 0.070 0.062 0.112 0.078 Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, All Bank Statistics (Washington, DC, 1959). An error also appears on p. 174 of Sanford Jacoby and Sunil Sharma's article, Employment Duration and Industrial Labor Mobility in the United States, 1880-1980," which appeared in the March 1992 issue of the JOURNAL. The title of Table 4 should have read PERCENT OF (CENSORED) JOB SPELLS UNDER ONE YEAR. The editors regret these errors. 199! REFEREES In addition to the members of the editorial board, the following outside referees deserve our thanks for their generous assistance during the year: Robert C. Allen, University of British Columbia Lee Alston, University of Illinois N. Gerald Barrier, University of Missouri, Columbia Editors' Notes 473 Fred Bateman, Indiana University William N. Becker, George Washington University Howard Bodenhorn, St. Lawrence University Allan Bogue, University of Wisconsin Michael Bordo, University of South Carolina Gordon Boyce, Victoria University of Wellington John C. Brown, Clark University Malcolm Burns, University of Kansas Charles Calomiris, University of Pennsylvania Susan Carter, University of California, Riverside Carmel U. Chiswick, University of Illinois, Chicago Gregory Clark, University of California, Davis Sally Clarke, University of Texas Austin John Coatsworth, University of Chicago Ricardo Cortes Conde, Universidad de San Andres (Buenos Aires) N.F.R. Crafts, University of Warwick Philip D. Curtin, John Hopkins University R. W. Davies, University of Birmingham George Davis, Miami University Lance E. Davis, California Institute of Technology J. Bradford De Long, Harvard University David Dollar, The World Bank Michael Edelstein, Queens College—CUNY Martin Eisenberg, Knox College Bernard Elbaum, University of California, Santa Cruz David Eltis, Queen's College Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester Peter Fearon, University of Leicester David Feeny, McMaster University Charles Feinstein, All Souls College, Oxford University Stefano Fenoaltea, University of Pennsylvania Louis Ferleger, University of Massachusetts, Boston Albert Fishlow, University of California, Berkeley Roderick Floud, City of London Polytechnic Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst James Foreman-Peck, St. Anthony's College, Oxford David W. Galenson, University of Chicago Henry A. Gemery, Colby College David P. Gilmartin, North Carolina State University Claudia Goldin, Harvard University George Grantham, McGill University Stephen Haber, Stanford University William W. Hagen, University of California, Davis Bronwyn Hughes Hall, University of California, Berkeley Joan U. Hannon, St. Mary's College of California C. Knick Harley, University of Western Ontario Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse G. R. Hawke, Victoria University of Wellington Thomas Hazlitt, University of California, Davis Bruce Herrick, Washington and Lee University Alan Heston, University of Pennsylvania Jan Hogendorn, Colby College Michael Huberman, Trent University 474 Editors' Notes Jane Humphries, Cambridge University E. H. Hunt, London School of Economics John Hurd, Norwich University R. Douglas Hurt, Iowa State University Charles Issawi, Princeton University John James, University of Virginia Eric L. Jones, LaTrobe University Shawn E. Kantor, University of Arizona Jane Knodell, University of Vermont Alex Keyssar, Duke University Naomi Lamoreaux, Brown University Richard Langlois, University of Connecticut William Lazonick, Barnard College Lynn Hollen Lees, University of Pennsylvania Nathaniel H. Leff, Columbia University J. Clark Leith, University of Western Ontario Carol S. Leonard, Harvard University Frank Lewis, Queen's University Gary Libecap, University of Arizona John Lyons, Miami University John McCusker, University of Maryland Robert McGuire, University of California, Davis Marvin Mclnnis, Queen's University Mary MacKinnon, McGill University Patrick Manning, Northeastern University Howard P. Marvel, Ohio State University Thomas Mayer, University of California, Davis John Mbaku, Kennesaw State University James Millar, George Washington University Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University Morris D. Morris, Brown University R. J. Morris, University of Edinburgh Carl Mosk, University of Victoria James Nakamura, Columbia University John V. Nye, Washington University Anthony Patrick O'Brien, Lehigh University Patrick K. O'Brien, St. Anthony's College, Oxford Kerry Odell, Scripps College Alan Olmstead, University of California, Davis Martha L. Olney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Edwin Perkins, University of Southern California Sidney Pollard, University of Sheffield Clayne Pope, Brigham Young University David Pope, University of New South Wales Gilles Postel-Vinay, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Paris) Jonathan Pritchett, Tulane University Frederic L. Pryor, Swarthmore College Roger Ransom, University of California Thomas Rawski, University of Pittsburgh Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University Richard Roehl, University of Michigan, Dearborn Joshua Rosenbloom, University of Kansas Winifred B. Rothenberg, Tufts University Editors' Notes 475 Donald Schaefer, Washington State University Larry Schweikart, University of Dayton Thomas E. Skidmore, Brown University Kenneth Sokoloff, University of California, Los Angeles Martin C. Spechler, Indiana University, Indianapolis Robert C. Stacey, University of Washington William Sundstrom, Santa Clara University Richard Sylla, New York University Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robert Tignor, Princeton University C. Peter Timmer, Harvard University Elias Tuma, University of California, Davis Abraham L. Udovitch, Princeton University Thomas S. Ulen, University of Illinois Dan Usher, University of British Columbia Nicholas von Tunzelmann, University of Sussex Nancy Virts, California State University Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley Kenneth Wachter, University of California, Berkeley Gary M. Walton, University of California, Davis Scott L. Waugh, University of California, Los Angeles Steven B. Webb, The World Bank David Weiman, Yale University Robert Whaples, Wake Forest University Warren C. Whatley, University of Michigan David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Lawrence H. White, University of Georgia Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard University R. Bin Wong, University of California, Irvine Gavin Wright, Stanford University Mary Young, University of Rochester