Institutions, human capital, and long-term development: Lessons from pre-modern Europe

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Start date

June 24, 2024

End date

June 25, 2024

Time

8:30 - 19:00

Location

Louvain-la-Neuve

Address

Louvain House Espace du Lac, Place Lemaire 1

Contact

secretariat-ires@uclouvain.be

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Louvain FRESH Workshop 2024

Institutions, human capital, and long-term development:

Lessons from pre-modern Europe.

Organizers

David de la Croix (UCLouvain), Sandra de Pleijt ( Wageningen University), Paula Gobbi (ULB).

Programme

June 23^th

19:00-22:00 Informal dinner for early arrivers at "Le Cambridge".

June 24^th

8:30-9:00	Welcome coffee
9:00-10:00	Plenary lecture: Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) Innovation in the Industrial Revolution: The Secret of British Leadership
10:00-10:30	Coffee
10:30-11:00	Matthew Curtis, Paula E. Gobbi (ULB), Marc Goñi, Joanne Haddad Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern and Female Empowerment
11:00-11:30	Tommaso D’Amelio (ULB) Illegitimacy in France at the time of the revolution
11:30-12:00	Eva Davoine, Joseph Enguehard (ENS Lyon), Igor Kolesnikov The Political Costs of Taxation?
12:00-12:30	Tommaso Giommoni, Marko Koethenbuerger, Gabriel Loumeau (VU Amsterdam) Tax Technology and Long-Term Development
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	Andreas Link ( University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) The Fall of Constantinople and the Rise of the West
14:30-15:00	E. Dewitte (University of Oxford), F. Drago, R. Galbiati, G. Zanella Science under Inquisition: The allocation of talent in early modern Europe
15:00-15:30	Matthew Curtis (University of Southern Denmark), David de la Croix Seeds of Knowledge: Premodern Scholarship, Academic Fields, and European Growth
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-16:30	Sandra de Pleijt (Wageningen University), Julius Koschnick Alienated Intellectuals? Exploring the Political Consequences of the Educational Revolution in Early Modern England
16:30-17:00	Sheilagh C. Ogilvie, Felix S.F. Schaff (European university Institute) Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy
17:00-19:00	Posters and beers Poster session Björn Brey (Oxford and ULB), Jacob Weisdorf Property rights and technological inertia: Evidence from the electrification of Switzerland Vincent Delabastita (Radboud University), Sebastiaan Maes, Joris Hoste Sacred Quests, Worldly Gains: How the Crusades Spurred Europe’s Commercial Revolution Filippo Manfredini (UCLouvain) Universities and Divergence in Pre-Industrial Europe Magdė Vosyliūtė (KU Leuven) Market institutions and illegal trade in early modern Grand Duchy of Lithuania
19:30-22:00	Conference dinner (for presenters at La Table L)

June 25^th

8:30-9:00	Welcome coffee
9:00-9:30	David de la Croix, Rossana Scebba (KU Leuven/UCLouvain), Chiara Zanardello Salvation, Plants, and Cosmos: How Pre-modern Universities Spread Ideas
9:30-10:00	Matteo Cervellati (Università di Bologna), Sara Lazzaroni, Gianni Marciante (Università di Bologna), Paolo Masella Republic of Letters And Postal Network In Early Modern England And Wales
10:00-10:30	Lukas Rosenberger (LMU Munich) Access to Useful Knowledge and Economic Growth: Evidence from Enlightenment Encyclopedias
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:30	Michele Rosenberg (University of Essex), Federico Curci Factory Location: Resistance to Technology Adoption and Local Institutions
11:30-12:00	Chiara Zanardello (UCLouvain) Early Modern Academies, Universities and Growth
12:00-12:30	Sebastian Ottinger (CERGE-EI), Nico Voigtländer History’s Masters. The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	Matias Cabello (University Halle-Wittenberg) Fragmented Europe and its creativity: 1100—1900
14:30-15:00	Marcel Caesmann (University of Zurich) Shaping Religious Identity: Evidence from the Protestant Reformation, 1517-1806
15:00-15:30	Pietro Buri (Princeton University) The Impact of Religious Persecution on Scientific Progress: The Case of the Spanish Inquisition
15:30-16:00	Raffaele Danna (European University Institute), Martina Iori and Andrea Mina A Numerical Revolution: Mathematical innovation and the growth of pre-modern European economies
16:00-16:30	Coffee
16:30-17:30	Plenary lecture: Nico Voigtländer (UCLA Anderson), Charles Angelucci, Simone Meraglia Organizing a Kingdom
19:00-22:00	Informal dinner at Altérez-vous

Venue

The workshop will take place at the Foyer Royal of the Louvain House (1st floor of the Louvain House)

The address of the Louvain House is :

Place Lemaire, 1
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

For those staying at the Martin's Hotel, the Louvain House is next to the hotel.

How to get to the Louvain House ?

I travel by plane

By Plane

Brussels National Airport (Zaventem) is linked to Brussels by a train service: 4 trains/hour between 5.30 a.m. and 12 p.m. during weekdays and between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m. during week-ends (about 15'). Ask for a ticket to "Louvain-la-Neuve" (NOT Louvain or Leuven) and get off at the station BrusselsNord (a 12-15 min. ride). Take the Brussels-Namur-Luxemburg line (trains every half hour, week-end included), get off at Ottignies (about 35') and switch to a train to Louvain-la-Neuve (about 8'). Some trains go straight from Brussels to Louvain-la-Neuve but it takes more time. The Louvain House is located about 6 min. walk from the railway station (see map below).
Timetables are available on the SNCB website.

Brussels South Charleroi Airport: To reach Louvain-la-Neuve, take a bus from the airport (Bus A1) to reach the Charleroi Central station (about 20'). There are 2 buses/hour. You can purchase a combined ticket on the Belgian railway (SNCB) site. The bus rides to the Charleroi-Central railway station, from which you can catch a train for Louvain-la-Neuve (you will have to get off at Ottignies and switch to a train for Louvain-la-Neuve). You should aim between 1h and 1h30 to reach Louvain-la-Neuve. The Louvain House is a 6-minute-walk from the train station (see map above).
Timetables are available on the SNCB website.

I travel by train

By Train

You can plan your journey on the Belgian railway (SNCB) site.

Starting from any train station in Brussels, ask for a ticket to "Louvain-la-Neuve" (NOT Louvain or Leuven). Take the Brussels-Namur-Luxemburg line (trains every half hour, week-end included), get off at Ottignies (about 35 min.) and switch to a train to Louvain-la-Neuve (about 8 min.). Some trains go straight from Brussels to Louvain-la-Neuve, but it takes more time. Tha Louvain House is located about 6 min. walk from the railway station (more precisely, the station is half undergound):

get out of the train, walk back on the platform (opposite to the direction where the train was heading to);
Take the stairs at the end of the platform;
At the top of the stairs turn right to reach Place de l'Université;
Cross the Place de l'université to reach the opposite corner;
Enter the "Rue Charlemagne";
Follow this street until you come across an other place: Grand-Place;
Cross the place to reach the opposite corner;
You should then see the Louvain House;
The entrance is at the back of the building.