The Economic Elites of Ukraine and Central-Eastern Europe: a Comparative Historical Perspective
Venue: Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine), Department of Modern Ukrainian History
Date: March 29, 2019
Organizers: Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv; the Eastern European Economic History Initiative; the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program, University of Alberta
Abstract: The workshop aims to initiate interdisciplinary exchange on the economic elite of CEE and the Eastern European region from a comparative historical perspective. The influence of economic elite on politics, economy, social structures, and culture will be central to the workshop. The public perception of wealth and the power of the wealthy will also be discussed.
Keynote lecturers and moderators:
Dr. Tracy Dennison, professor of Social Science History at California Institute of Technology: “Elites as Obstacles to Economic Reform in Pre-Modern Eastern Europe.”
Dr. Max Schulze, professor of Economic History, Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science: “Growth and Development Compared: Austria-Hungary and Russia in the Late 19th Century.”
Dr. Jacob Weisdorf, professor of economics at the University of Southern Denmark, research fellow at the CEPR in London, research associate of the CAGE in Warwick, and research affiliate at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa: “Top Down or Bottom Up: Understanding Long-Run Economic Differences between West and Eastern Europe.”