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A Festschrift for Leslie Hannah: Workshop for a Special Issue ofBusiness History:

March 10th –11th 2017

This workshop will present and discuss contributions to a special issue of Business History that will be a festschrift to honour the career of Professor Leslie Hannah. The sessions will be in Room G15, Henley Business School (central Reading campus – see

Attendance is free, though those attending are required to register via our website Registration closes on 5th March 2016.

Agenda

Hrs / Friday 10th March 2017
13:00 – 13:30 / Registration
Tea and coffee / Foyer, Henley Business School
13:30 -14:00 / Introduction by the editors / Henley Business School room G15
14:00 – 15:00 / Competition and the Shaping of Technological Expectations for the Power Source of the Motor Car 1895-1904,
Prof James Foreman-Peck, Head of the Economics Section, Cardiff Business School / Henley Business School room G15
15:00 – 15:20 / Tea and coffee / Foyer, Henley Business School
15:20 – 16:20 / Contractual Flexibility within the Common Law: The Legal Regulation of Corporations in Britain versus the United States, Prof Ron Harris, Professor of Legal History and Dean, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, andProf Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Professor of Economics and History, Yale University and NBER / Henley Business School room G15
16:20 – 17:20 / The Concept of the Corporation,
Prof John Kay, St. John’s College, Oxford / Henley Business School room G15
17:20 – 17:45 / General discussion / Henley Business School room G15
18:00 – 19:30 / Woolworths Archive Launch Event / Foyer, Henley Business School
19:30 / Dinner / TBC, Reading town centre
Hrs / Saturday 11th March 2017
08:45 – 09:10 / Registration
Tea and coffee / Foyer, Henley Business School building
09:10 – 10:00 / Hannah on Hollywood History
Prof Daniel Raff, Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School and Associate Professor of History and Lecturer in Law, University of Pennsylvania and NBER / Henley Business School room G15
10:00 – 11:00 / Diversification in the UK pre 1914:Evidence From Individual Investor Portfolios
Prof Janette Rutterford, Professor of Financial Management and Research Professor of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance, Open University Business School and
Dr Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Senior Lecturer in Finance, Open University Business School / Henley Business School room G15
11:00 – 11:20 / Tea and coffee / Foyer, Henley Business School building
11:20 – 12:20 / Reforming the Structure of Direct Taxation: the Political and Administrative Response to the Meade Report (1978),
Prof Martin Chick, Professor of Economic History, University of Edinburgh / Henley Business School room G15
12:20 – 13.:30 / Lunch / Foyer, Henley Business School building
13:30 – 14:30 /

Rationalisation and Amalgamation in the Corporate Economy: The Industrial Reorganisation Corporation and the Rationalisation of British Electrical and Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing

Dr Roy Edwards, Lecturer Southampton Business School, and

Dr Anthony Gandy, London Institute of Banking and Finance

/ Henley Business School room G15
14:30 – 14:45 / Tea and coffee / Foyer, Henley Business School building
14:45 – 16:00 / Discussion of the editor’s introduction to the special issue and the paper on Taxes and Industrial Structure by Prof Peter Temin, Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT / Henley Business School room G15
16:00 / Close

We thank the Economic History Society Initiatives and Conferences Fund for their generous support.

For any queries, please contact Valerie Woodley, Centre for International Business and History Administrator, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG5 6UD, , telephone 0118 378 7667.