January 2018, Workshop in Lund.

The Economic History of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development

Monday 15th January

13.00 - 13.15 Introduction: Cristián Ducoing and José Peres

13.15 - 14.30 Keynotes

María del Mar Rubio -Varas

" Two decades of research in economic history, natural resources, and sustainable development"

Ann-Kristin Bergquist

" Barriers to Sustainability: A Business History Perspective."

14:30 - 14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 - 16:45 Paper session 1: Natural resources and Development. Chair: Kristin Ranestad

" Natural Resources Curse in the long run? Bolivia, Chile and Peru)

in the Nordic countries’ mirror" (Ducoing, Peres-Cajías etal).

" Dynamic Natural Resources paths of economic development in Australia and Norway" (Wicken, Ville & Dean). Discussant: Marc Badia-Miró

" Copper prices in the long run" (Badia-Miró, Carreras & Ducoing). Discussant: J. Dean

" Latin American Economic Growth, a Failure. 1820-2015" (Madsen & Zaman). Discussant: Sara Torregrosa

Tuesday 16th January

Room EC2:063

8.30 - 10:00 Paper session 2: Genuine savings Chair: Ann-Kristin Bergquist

" Global Genuine Savings" (Blum, Ducoing and McLaughlin). Discussant: Dupuy

" Genuine savings and future well-being in a peripheral economy. Uruguay in the long run, 1870-2015" (Labat, Román & Willebald). Discussant: Eoin McLaughlin

" Using Genuine Savings for climate policy evaluation with an integrated assessment model " (Dupuy and Tokimatsu). Discussant: Henry Willebald

10:00 - 10.30 Coffee break

10.30 - 12.00 Paper session 3: Human Capital and Public Policies. Chair: Cristián Ducoing

" Formal education, practical learning and innovation: An empirical study of the career paths of mining workers in Norway with formal training from ca. 1860 to 1940" (Ranestad). Discussant: Mühlhoff

" Is Female Empowerment an Antidote against the ‘Resource Curse’?" (Mühlhoff & Juif). Discussant: Kristin Ranestad

” Taking off from Natural Resources” (Ducoing, Peres-Cajías & Torregrosa). Discussant: Marc Badia-Miró

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:15 Keynotes

Paul Sharp

" The Danish Agricultural Revolution and the Role of Natural Resources for Development"

Espen Storli

" The price is right? The development of pricing mechanisms for commodities in the 20th century "

14:15 - 14:30 Coffee Break

14:30 - 16:00 Paper session 4: Sustainability and Commodities. Chair: José Peres-Cajías

" Changing uses and rank orders of Finland’s and Sweden forest resources in the long-run" (Kunnas). Discussant: Cristián Ducoing

" Directed credit in a world of globalised finance: Commodity booms and state-intervention in the Bolivian financial sector" (Naqvi). Discussant: José Peres-Cajías

16:00 - 16:30 Final Discussion