Transfers of precious metals and their consequences (XVIIth-XXth centuries)

16MAY - 17MAY 2013
Madrid
Symposium

Coord.: Georges DEPEYROT (UMR 8546 - AOROC, CNRS/ENS, Paris)
Org.: ANR DAMIN La Dépréciation de l'Argent Monétaire et les relations Internationales - Silver Monetary Depreciation and International Relations, École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid)
Col.: LabEx TransferS (ENS)

Celebration place:
Museo del Traje
Salón de Actos
Av. de Juan de Herrera, 2
Ciudad Universitaria
28040 Madrid

Presentation

After the first Round Table, in Paris at the École normale supérieure in January 2012, Moneys and Economies during 19th Century, from Europe to Asia, a second Round Table will be organized in the framework of the program DAMIN, in cooperation with the Casa de Velázquez and the LabEx TransferS (École normale supérieure, Paris). Precious metals were often transferred from a region, or a country, to another: looting of conquered regions (such as Roman Spain, Gaul or Egypt), invasions (Vandals, Huns invading the Roman Empire, Crusaders arriving at Constantinople), and, of course arrival of gold and silver from Americas after 1492. Each time, the new metal disturbed the monetary systems, sometimes improving, sometimes troubling the currencies and economies. The period considered is focused on the 19th century, the question of the depreciation of silver and the transfers of metals from America or Europe to Asia, India, China, etc. However, papers on the other main transfers of metal are welcome, especially those concerning the important transfers of metal following the discovery of Americas.

Program

THURSDAY 16th MAY

9h-13h

Opening
Jean-Pierre ÉTIENVRE
Director of the Casa de Velázquez

Introduction
Georges DEPEYROT
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris)

THE FIRST INFLOW

Chairwoman
Dennis O. FLYNN
University of the Pacific (California)

Juan CASTANEDA
University of Buckingham
New Estimates of the Stock of Gold (1493-2011)

Allison Margaret BIGELOW
College of William & Mary
Lost in Translation: Knowledge Transfers and Cultural Divergences in Early Modern Spanish and English Silver Treatises

Claudia JEFFERIES
City University London
American Silver Production, Copper Coinage and the Composition of Sovereign Credit in XVIIth Century Spain

Michael MÄRCHER and Helle HORSNÆS
Copenhaguen Museum
Coins Found on Bornholm and Streams of Precious Metals

Claudio MARSILIO
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Lisbon, London or Genoa? Three Alternative Destinations for the Spanish Silver of Philip IV (1627-50)

14h30-19h

THE XIXth-XXth CENTURY

Chairman
Akinobu KURODA
University of Tokyo

Carolyn N. BILTOFT
Max-Planck-Institute Für Gesellschaftsforshung
All that was Solid: the Competing World Views of Metalism and the Credit Theory of Money after 1850

Jürgen NAUTZ
Universität Wien
Austro-Hungarian State(s) and the Issuing Bank in Preparation of the Currency Reform, the Introduction of the Gold Standard from the 1870s to the Outbreak of World War I

Emmanuel PRUNAUX
Mission historique de la Banque de France (Paris)
Les transports de fonds en France au début du XIXe siècle

Rita MARTINS DE SOUSA
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Transfers of Precious Metals and Money Supply – Portugal XVIth -XIXth Centuries

Forrest CAPIE
University of Buckingham
Gold and Silver – a Marshallian Conjecture

FRIDAY 17th MAY

9h30-13h


THE ORIENT

Chairman
Jürgen NAUTZ
Universität Wien

Dennis O. FLYNN
University of the Pacific (California)
A Restatement of the Price Theory of Money

Alejandra IRIGOIN
London School of Economics and Social Sciences
A Trojan Horse in Daoguang China? Explaining the Flows of Silver in and out of China

Akinobu KURODA
University of Tokyo
What was Silver Tael System? : a Mistake of China as Silver «Standard» Country

Rila MUKHERJEE
Institut de Chandernagor (Kolkata, India)
An Early Medieval Metal Corridor: Silver, Bengal and Bagan, VIIth - XIIIth Centuries

Marina KOVALCHUK
Far Eastern Federal University (Russia)
Japan. Adoption of the Gold Standard: Economic Problem from a Historical Point of View

14h30-19h

THE ORIENT (2) - THE XXth CENTURY

Chairwoman
Alejandra IRIGOIN
London School of Economics and Social Sciences

Elisabeth KASKE
Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Silver Bullion and Government Finance in Nineteenth Century in China

Catherine BREGIANNI
Academy of Athens and Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (Paris)
Greece’s Gold Transfer during the Interwar and the War Period; Two Stories and a Myth

Eketerina SVIRINA
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Russian Metallic Currency of the First Half of the 19th Century: Introductory Analytical Characteristics

Vladimir BAKHTIN
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Revolution and Civil War in Russia and Consequences

Alla SHEPTUN
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Gold Inflows and Outflows in 19th Century Russia during its Transition to the Gold Standard

Conclusions
Patrice BAUBEAU
Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

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