Organizations, civil society, and the roots of development.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER held a meeting on "Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roles of Development" in Cambridge on October 24-25, 2014. NBER Research Associates Naomi Lamoreaux of Yale University and John Wallis of University of Maryland organized the program. These papers were discussed:

* Margaret Levi, Barry Weingast, and Frances Zlotnick, Stanford University, and Tania Melo, University of Washington, "Opening Access, Ending the Violence Trap"

* Victoria Johnson, University of Michigan, and Walter Powell, Stanford University, "Poisedness and Propagation: Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City"

* Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine, "Securing the East India Monopoly: Politics, Institutional Change, and the Security of British Property Rights Revisited"

* Qian Lu, University of Maryland, and John Wallis, "Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts"

* Eric Hilt, Wellesley College and NBER, "General Incorporation and the Shift toward Open Access in the Nineteenth-Century United States"

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