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The Accidental Business Historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

William J. Hausman
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Presidental Address
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2007, pp. 765 - 776
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2007. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

Footnotes

1. Tyler, Anne The Accidental Tourist (New York, 1985)

2. For the years 1975–99 these can be found on the BHC web page. URL: http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/presaddbeh.html (accessed 12 June 2007). From 2000 on, they usually have been published in the December issue of Enterprise & Society. There was no presidential address published in 2003 and a symposium based on JoAnne Yates’ address was published in the September 2006 issue of Enterprise & Society.

3. Krooss, Herman E. “Some Random Thoughts on Business and Government,” Business and Economic History, second series, 4 (1975): 1.

4. Hausman, William J. “Business History in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century,” in Amatori, Franco and Jones, Geoffrey eds., Business History Around the World (Cambridge, U.K., 2003), 81–110.

5. Chandler, Alfred D. Jr., “Business History-A Personal Experience,” Business and Economic History, second series, 7 (1978): 1.

6. With that preparation, there is no way I would be accepted into a respectable Ph.D. program in economics today, and I think that is unfortunate. I almost certainly would have become a lawyer.

7. Economics graduate students at the time were required to take one economic history course, something rare today.

8. The Kress collection is now part of the Historical Collections Department of Baker Library at Harvard. URL: http://lib.harvard.edu/archives/0010.html (accessed 12 June 2007).

9. Beveridge, William Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 (London, 1939), and Thorold Rogers, James E. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, 7 vols. (Oxford, U.K., 1902).

10. The London chaldron was a unit of volume fixed by statute. By the eighteenth century it was approximately equivalent to 1 1/3 tons.

11. Corporation of London Record Office, Collector’s Returns of the Orphans’ Duty, 1694–1775, 25 vols., Ms. 429 b-c.

12. See Hausman, William J. Public Policy and the Supply of Coal to London, 1700–1770 (Ph. D. diss., University of Illinois, 1976) and Hausman, William J. “A Model of the London Coal Trade in the Eighteenth Century,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 94 (Feb. 1980): 1–14.

13. Hausman, William J. “Market Power in the London Coal Trade: The Limitation of the Vend, 1770–1845,” Explorations in Economic History 21 (Oct. 1984): 383–405. For a recent survey article on cartels, see our program co-chair’s article, Levenstein, Margaret C. and Suslow, Valerie Y. “What Determines Cartel Success?” Journal of Economic Literature 44 (March 2006): 43–95.

14. Hausman, William J. “Size and Profitability of English Colliers in the Eighteenth Century,” Business History Review 51 (Winter 1977): 460–73

15. Papers were given at this 1975 conference by our host this year, Gary Previts, and our President-elect, Mark Rose. See the table of contents on the BHC web site. URL: http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/toc41975.html (accessed 12 June 2007).

16. A list of past meeting venues can be found on the BHC web site. URL: http://www.thebhc.org/annmeet/annmeets.html (accessed 12 June 2007).

17. The current committee structure can be found on the BHC web site. URL: http://www.thebhc.org/governance/people.html (accessed 12 June 2007).

18. A succession of Deans of Arts and Sciences has supported my involvement with the BHC during all the years of editing BEH, Enterprise & Society, and now BEH On-Line. The BHC owes the College of William & Mary a considerable debt of gratitude.

19. Business and Economic History 22 (Winter 1993). URL: http://www.thebhc. org/publications/BEHprint/toc22b1993.html (accessed 12 June 2007).

20. Business and Economic History 26 (Fall 1997). URL: http://www.thebhc. org/publications/BEHprint/toc26a1997.html (accessed 12 June 2007).

21. BEH On-Line can be found on the BHC web site. URL: http://www.thebhc. org/publications/BEHonline/beh.html (accessed 12 June 2007).

22. “ Enterprise & Society, Publisher’s Report for the Business History Conference,” prepared by Division, Journals Oxford University Press, May 2007.

23. Other contributors to the project included Dominique Barjot, Jonathan Coopersmith, Ken Jackson, Pierre Lanthier, Viv Nelles, John Neufeld, Harm Schroter, and Luciano Segreto.

24. Hausman, William J. Hertner, Peter and Wilkins, Mira Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007 (New York and Cambridge, U.K., forthcoming).