CURRICULUM VITAE
CURRICULUM VITAE
CARL MOSK
March, 2014
Address:
Department of Economics
University of Victoria
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Website: www.carlmosk.com
Education: University of California, Berkeley
Mathematics1962-66A.B.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics1966-67M.S.
Harvard University Economics 1970-76Ph.D.
Professional Experience:
Instructor, Mathematics, Spelman College 1967-68
Teacher Fellow and Tutor, Economics, Harvard University 1976
Research Associate, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi
University 1974-5, 1979
Assistant Professor, University of California (Berkeley)
1976-84
Associate Professor, Santa Clara University 1984-88
Visiting Scholar, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research 1986
Professor of Economics, University of Victoria 1988-present
Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Doshisha Univesity
1990
Visiting Scholar, Institute for International Economics, Nagoya
University 1994
Visiting Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
1997
Visiting Professor, International Research Center for Japanese
Studies 1997
Visiting Scholar, Henry Jackson School of International
Affairs,
University of Washington 2001
CARL MOSK [Continued]
Domain Leader, Economics, Metropolis Project 2001-2003
Affiliate, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology,
University of Washington
Director, Population Research Group, University of Victoria
2004-present
Visiting Professor/Lecturer in Economics, University of
California (Davis) 2004-2012
Books:
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880-1960 (New York:
Academic Press, 1983)
Competition and Cooperation in Japanese Labour Markets
(Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire:
Macmillan Press Ltd., 1995)
Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan (Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996)
Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization and
Economic Growth (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.Sharpe, 2001)
Trade and Migration in the Modern World (London: Routledge,
2005)
Japanese Economic Development: Markets, Norms, Structures
(London: Routledge, 2007)
Traps Embraced or Escaped: Elites in the Economic Development of
Modern Japan and China (Singapore:
World Scientific, 2011)
Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia (London:
Routledge, 2013)
Reports and Edited Volumes:
Death and Development: Mortality Decline in Japan, 1908-1960
(Report for the National Science Foundation, U.S., 1995 (with S. R.
Johansson)
The Information Society in Japan (edited with B. Bedeski) Papers
presented at Eigth Annual Conference of the Japan Studies
Association of Canada [published by Japan Studies Association of
Canada, 1996]
On the Eurasian Periphery: Secular Population Transformation in
Britain and Japan, A series of lectures prepared for presentation
to seminars at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Spring, 1997
Published Papers and Chapters in Books:
“Demographic Transition in Japan”, Journal of Economic History
(1977) Vol. 37, #3: 655-674
“The Decline of Marital Fertility in Japan”, Population Studies
(1979) Vol. 33, #1: 19-38.
“Fecundity, Infanticide and Food Consumption in Japan,”
Explorations in Economic History (1978) Vol.
15, #3: 269-289.
CARL MOSK [Continued]
Published Papers and Chapters in Books [Continued]
“Demographic Transition in Japan”, Journal of Economic History
[Dissertation Abstract], Vol. 38, #1:
285-286.
“The Problem of a Gap During Fertility Declines,” (1978)
Population Index, Vol. 44, #3: 391 [Abstract
of paper presented at Population Association of America
Meetings, April, 1978]
“Nuptiality in Meiji Japan,” Journal of Social History, Vol. 13:
474-489.
“Rural-Urban Fertility Differentials and the Fertility
Transition,” (1980) Population Studies, Vol. 34,
#1:7790.
“The Evolution of the Premodern Demographic Regime in Japan,”
(1981) Population Studies,
Vol. 35,128-52.
“Nutrition and Fertility: A Review Essay,” (1981) Historical
Methods, Vol. 1: 43-46.
“The Evolution of Premodern Demographic Regimes: A Research
Note,”(1981) Explorations in
Economic Research, Vol. 18: 199-208.
“Fertility and Occupation: Mining Districts in Prewar Japan,”
(1981) Social Science History, Vol. 5, #3:
293-315
“The Origins of the Fertility Transition in Rural Japan,” (1981)
Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 8: 93-110.
(with Y. Nakata) “The Age-Wage Profile and Structural Change in
the Japanese Labour Market in the Japanese Labor Market,
1964-1982,” (1985) Journal of Human Resources, XX, #1: 100-116.
(with S. R. Johansson) “Income and Mortality: Evidence from
Modern Japan,” (1986) Population and Development Review, Vol. 12,
#3: 415-440.
(with Y. Nakata) “The Demand for College Education in Postwar
Japan,” (1987) The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 22, #3:
377-404.
(with S. R. Johansson) “Exposure, Resistance, and Life
Expectancy: Disease and Death During the Economic Development of
Japan, 1900 to 1960,” (1987) Population Studies, Vol. 41:
207-235.
“Flexibility: The Adjustability of Japanese Management
Techniques and the Potential for Their Foreign Transfer,” in Tuvia
Blumenthal [ed] (1988), Japanese Management at Home and Abroad
(Beer-Sheva, Israel: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press):
47-87.
(with Y. Nakata) “Nichibei rdsha no teichaku hikaku,”
[Comparison of Labor Attac hment in Japan and the United States],
(1988) Nihon Rmu Gakkai Nenpo [Annual Report of Japan Society for
Personnel and Labor Research], Vol. 18: 46-59.
“The Recent Decline of Unionization in Postwar Japan: A
Comparative Appraisal,” in Congress of the United States (1990)
Japan’s Economic Challenge (Washington: U.S. Government Printing
Office): 267-273.
CARL MOSK [Continued]
Published Papers and Chapters in Books [Continued]
(with Y. Nakata) “Education and Occupation: An Enquiry into the
Relationship Between College Specialization and the Labour Market
in Postwar Japan,” (1992) Pacific Affairs, Vol. 65, #1: 50-67.
“Efficiency Wage Exchange, the Wage Profile, and the Diffusion
of the Shokun Shikaku Seid/Shukk System in Postwar Japan,” (1994)
Proceedings of the Association of the Japanese Business Studies
Association, 1993-94: 373-396.
“Household Structure and Labor Markets in Postwar Japan,” (1995)
Journal of Family History, Vol. 20, #1: 103-125.
“Une Revision du Concept de Transition Demographique a la
Lumiere de’l Experience de L’Asia Orientale,” (1995) Population:
474-482.
“Secular Improvement in Well-Being: Britain and Japan Compared,”
(2000) Jahrbuch fur
Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2000/1: 113-127.
“Small-scale Production and Urban Expansion in Industrializing
Japan: Nagoya, 1890-1940,” in Anders Brandstrom and Lars-Goran
Tederbrand, eds. Population Dynamics During Industrialization
(Umea: Umea University Press, 2000): 227-270.
“Economic and Demographic Integration in the Asia-Pacific and
Structural Change in Japan and Pacific Canada,” in Robert Bedeski
and John Schofield, eds. Prospects for Development in the
Asia-Pacific Area (Victoria: Western Geographical Press, 2000):
115-135.
“Osaka and Tokyo,” in Masao Nakamura [ed] The Japanese Business
and Economic System: History and Prospects for the 21st Century
(Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001): 180-222.
“Inequality, Ideology, Autarky, and Structural Change: The
Biological Standard of Living in Japan Between the World Wars,” The
Japanese Economy, Vol. 28, no. 2 (Issue dated March-April 2000
issued in 2001): 39-75.
“Economic Assimilation of Japanese Immigrants in North America:
The Importance of Country of Origin as Well as Country of
Destination,” in J. Kess, H. Noro, M. Ayukawa and H. Lansdowne
[eds] Changing Japanese Identities in Multicultural Canada
(Victoria: Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 2003): pp.
557-563.
“Editors’ Introduction” (with David Giles) Journal of
International Trade and Economic Development, Volume 13, #4
(December, 2004): 359-370. [Special issue on trade and economic
development.]
“Three Island Frontiers: Japanese Migration in the Pacific,”
Chapter 10 in Christopher Lloyd, Jacob Metzler, and Richard Sutch
(eds), Settler Economies in World History (Leiden, the Netherlands:
Brill, 2013).
Encyclopedia Articles:
“Chaebol” “Keiretsu” and “Zaibatsu” [Three articles in Joel
Mokyr (ed), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Volumes 1
(pp. 386-387), 3 (pp. 216-217) and 5 (pp. 298-299)] (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003).
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Encyclopedia Articles [Continued]
“Imperial Preference,” “International Labour Organization,” and
“Iron and Steel,” [Three articles in John McCusker [ed], History of
World Trade Since 1450 (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thomson Gale,
The Thomson Corporation, 2005).
“Historical Demography,” [Article in The New Palgrave Dictionary
of Economics (Houndmills,
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2008)]
“Japanese Militarism and Industrialization” [Article in World
History Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-
CLIO, Inc., 2010)
Electronic Publications:
“Facilitating Growth, Coordinating Growth: Municipal Policy,
City Planning, and Industrial Development
in Prewar Japan,” E-ASPAC [Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast],
Volume 1, February, 2002 [website:
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/easpac/]
“Economic Assimilation of Japanese Immigrants in North America:
The Importance of Country of Origin as Well as Country of
Destination,” Commentary posted on Metropolis Webpage
[http://www.rim/metropolis.net]
Review of Nicholas Dawidoff, The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather
Made His Way in the World EH.NET Book Reviews (posted to
http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library.)
“Japanese Industrialization and Economic Growth,” Article for
the EH.NET Encyclopedia of Economic
History,
http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/mosk.japan.final.php.
“Review of Akira Hayami, Osamu Saito, and Ronald P. Toby
(editors) Emergence of Economic Society in
Japan, 1600-1859, Economic History Services, October 22, 2004,
http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0863.shtml
Review of Penelope Francks, The Japanese Consumer: An
Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan, Economic History
Services,
http://www.eh.net/contents/japanese-consumer-alternative-economic-history-japan-0
Reviews:
Review of T. Smith, “Nakahara: Family Farming and Population in
a Japanese Village, 1717-1830" in
Journal of Economic History, 1978.
Reviews of Susan Hanley and Kozo Yamamura, “Economic and
Demographic Change of Pre-Industrial Japan” in Journal of Economic
History and Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Review of Lee-jay Cho and Kazumasu Kobayashi [eds], “Fertility
of the East Asian Populations,” (1981) Journal of Asian Studies,
Vol. 40, #3.
Review of T. Nakamura, “The Postwar Japanese Economy: Its
Development and Structure” in Journal of Economic History.
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Reviews [Continued]
Review of M. Sumiya and K. Taira [eds] “An Outline of Japanese
Economic History, 1903-1940,” (1980) Journal of Economic History,
Vol. XL, #2: 417-418.
(with William Hodges) Review of E. A. Wrigley and R. S.
Schofield, “The Population History of England, 1541-1871: A
Reconstruction” in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 21, #1: pp.
92-93.
Review of S. B. Hanley and A. P. Wolf, “Family and Population in
East Asian History” in Journal of Asian Studies.
Review of Iosif G. Daykin, “Unnatural Deaths in the USSR,
1928-1954" in (1985) Canadian Slavonic Papers.
Review of M. B. Cusamano, “The Japanese Automobile Industry” in
(1987) American Economic Review.
Review of R. Dore, “Flexible Rigidities: Industrial Policy and
Structural Adjustment in the Japanese Economy” in (1988) American
Economic Review.
Review of Y. Kosai, “The Era of High-Speed Growth: Notes on the
Postwar Japanese Economy” in (1988) The Journal of Economic
History.
Review of A. B. Jannetta, “Epidemics and Mortality in Early
Modern Japan” in Pacific Affairs.
Review of R. D. Lee, W. Brian Arthur and G. Rodgers [eds]
“Economics of Changing Age Distributions in
Developed Countries” in (1989) Journal of Economic
Literature
Review of M. Schmiegelow and H. Schmiegelow, “Strategic
Pragmatism: Japanese Lessons in the Use of Economic Theory” in
(1990) Journal of Asian Studies.
Invited Critique of K. Taira, “Education of the Shop Floor: An
Angel Model” in (1990) Forum for Applied Research and Public
Policy.
Review of the North-South Institute, “Canada Trade,
Protectionism and Industrial Adjustment: Three North American Case
Studies” in (1990) Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de
Politiques.
Review of S. Cotts Watkins, “Demographic Integration in Western
Europe, 1870-1960" in (1991) Journal of Economic History.
Review of R. Hodge and N. Ogawa, “Fertility Change in
Contemporary Japan” in Population and Development Review.
Review of Y. Noguchi and D. Wise [eds] “Aging in the United
States and Japan: Economic Trends” in (1995) Journal of Japanese
Studies, Vol. 21, #2: 461-465.
Review of A. C. Tasiran, “Fertility Dynamics: Spacing and Timing
of Births in Sweden and the United States” in (1996) Journal of
Economic Literature: 794-795.
Review of R. Uriu, “Troubled Industries: Confronting Economic
Change in Japan” in (1997) Journal of Asian Studies: 803-805.
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Reviews [Continued]
Review of J. Mark Ramseyer, “Odd Markets in Japanese History” in
(1998) Journal of Economic History, Vol. 58, #2: 592-594.
Review of James Lee and Cameron Campbell, “Fate and Fortune in
Rural China” in (1998) Journal of Economic History, 58, #4:
1147-1149.
Review of Tadashi Yamamoto [ed], “The Nonprofit Sector in Japan”
in (1999) Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 58, #2.
Review of Donna L. Donne, “Cooperation, Technology and Japanese
Development: Knowledge, The
Power of Networks, and the State” in (2000) Journal of Asian
Studies, Vol. 59, #2.
Review of W.W. Rostow, “The Great Population Spike and After:
Reflections on the Twenty-First Century,” in (2000) Journal of
Economic Literature, Vol. XXXVIII: 666-667.
Review of James L. McClain and Wakita Osamu [eds] “Osaka: The
Merchants’ Capital of Early Modern Japan,” in (2000) Pacific
Affairs, Vol. 73, #3: 455-456.
Review of C. Gilbert and D. Vines, “The World Bank: Structure
and Policies,” in Journal of International Trade and Economic
Development, Vol. 10, #3 (2001): 363-365
Review of Danny Leipziger [ed], “Lessons from East Asia,” in
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 11,
#1 (2002): 102-104.
Review of Mordechai Kreinin (ed), “Building a Partnership: the
Canadian-United States Free Trade Agreement,” in Journal of
International Trade and Economic Development, (2002) Vol. 11, #3:
345-347.
Review of Bai Gao, “Japan’s Economic Dilemma: The Institutional
Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation,” in Journal of Economic
Literature, Vol. LX, 2002: 1249-1250.
Review of Theo S. Eicher and Stephen J. Turnovsky (eds),
“Inequality and Growth: Theory and Policy Implications,” in Journal
of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 13, #1
(2004): 107-109.
Review of Daniel M. Masterson, “The Japanese in Latin America,”
in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 77, #3 (2004):
587-588.
Review of Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger [eds], “Governance,
Regulation, and Privatization in the
Asia-Pacific Region,” Journal of International Trade and
Economic Development, Vol. 14, #1: 140-142.
Review of Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose [eds], “Growth and
Productivity in East Asia,” in Journal of International Trade and
Economic Development, Vol. 14, #2: 267-269.
Review of Robert Baldwin and Alan Winters [eds], “Challenge to
Globalization: Analyzing the
Economics” in Journal of International Trade and Economic
Development, Vol. 14, #3: 247-9.
Review of Kaoru Sugihara, “Japan, China, and the Growth of the
Asian International Economy, 1850-
1949”, in Journal of Economic History, Vol. 65, #4 (2005):
1157-1158.
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Reviews [Continued]
Review of Francesco Duina, “The Social Construction of Free
Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and
Mercosur” in Journal of International Trade and Economic
Development, Vol. 15, #4 (2006): 529-531.
Review of Masayuki Tanimoto [ed], “The Role of Tradition in
Japan’s Industrialization: Another Path to
Industrialization,” in The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 33,
#2 (2007): 232-235.
Review of Juro Teranishi, “Evolution of Economic System in
Japan,” in The Journal of Japanese Studies,
Vol. 33, #2 (2007): 284-287.
Review of Sanoussi Bilal and Roman Grynberg, “Navigating New
Waters: A Reader on ACP-EU Trade
Relations (Volumes 1 & 2),” in Journal of International
Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 16, #2:
559-561.
Review of Caroline Freund [ed], “The WTO and Reciprocal
Preferential Trading Agreements,” in Journal
of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 17, #1
(2008): 175-180.
Review of Francis McCall Rosenbluth [ed] “The Political Economy
of Japan’s Low Fertility,” in Canadian
Studies in Population, Vol. 36, #1-2 (2009): 178-182.
Review of David G. Wittner, “Technology and the Culture of
Progress in Meiji Japan,” in Journal of
Japanese Studies, Vol. 35, #1 (2009): 166-169.
Review of Michele Alacevich, “The Political Economy of the World
Bank: The Early Years” in The
Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Vol.
19, #1: 203-205.
Review of David O’Connor and Mónica Kjöllerström [ed]
“Industrial Development for the 21st Century” in
The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development,
Vol. 19, #1: 211-214.
Review of Amitava Krishna Dutt and Jamie Ros [ed],
“International Handbook of Development Economics
(Volumes One and Two),” The Journal of International Trade &
Economic Development, Vol. 19, No. 2,
351-355.
Review of Janet Hunter, “Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s
Industrialising Economy: The Textile
Industry Before the Pacific War,”Pacific Affairs, Vol. 83, No.
3: 598-600.
Review of Joost Pauwelyn, “Optimal Protection of International
Law: Navigating between European
Absolutism and American Voluntarism,” The Journal of
International Trade & Economic Development,
Vol. 19, No. 3: 495-497.
Review of Robert Feenstra, “Offshoring in the Global Economy:
Microeconomic Structure and Macroeconomic Implications,” The
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Vol. 20,
#1 (April, 2011).
Review of K. Hamada, K. Otsuka, G. Ranis, and K. Togo [eds]
“Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-war Japan,” Economic
History Review, Vol. 65, #2: 820-821.
Review of Drixler Fabian, “Mabiki: Infanticide and Population
Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950,” in Journal of Economic
History, Vol. 74, #1: 296-298 (2014).
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations:
“Nuptiality, Infant Mortality and Illegitimacy in Taish Japan,”
Paper presented to the Conference on Historical Dimensions of
Conflict in Japan, 1978.
“Fertility Transitions in Japan and Korea: A Comparison,” Paper
presented to Regional Conference of the Committee for the Chinese
Economy of the Social Science Research Council held at the Hoover
Institution, Stanford University, 1979.
“Nuptiality Patterns in Sweden and Japan: A Comparison,” Paper
presented to the Conference on the Decline of Fertility in Europe
by Province, 1979
“Demographic Behavior and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth:
Japan and Korea,” Paper presented to the All-University of
California Conference on Economic History at the University of
California, Davis (1979).
“Scandinavian Historical Demography: An International
Perspective,” Paper presented to the Meetings of the Social Science
History Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979.
“The Comparative Study of Historical Fertility: Some Lessons
from ‘Patriarchy and Fertility: The Evolution of Natality in Japan
and Sweden, 1880-1960',” Paper presented to the Meetings of the
Social Science History Association, Nashville, Tennessee.
“An Economic-Demographic Model of the Peasant Household with
Application to the Japanese Household during the Interwar Period,”
Paper presented to the meetings of the Social Science History
Association, 1982.
“Postwar Japanese Labor Market,” Paper presented to the Meetings
of the Western Social Science Association, 1984.
“Death and Development in Japan, 1908-1960,” Paper presented to
the Meetings of the Association of Asian Studies (1985) and the
Stanford-Berkeley Seminar in Population (1985).
“Cities and Survival: The Economics of Development, Public
Health and Medicine, and Urban-Rural Mortality Differentials,”
Paper presented to Seminar at Osaka University (1986).
“Japanese Development and the Demographic Transition,” Paper
delivered to the Seminar at Kyoto University (1986).
“Flexibility: The Adjustability of Japanese Management
Techniques and the Potential for their Foreign Transfer,” Paper
presented to the Conference on Japanese Management Techniques and
Their Transfer to Other Countries, Beer-Sheva, Israel (1986).
“Job Attachment in Postwar Japan: Demographic Analogies and
Substantive Findings,” Paper presented to the Graduate Group in
Demography, University of California (Berkeley), 1986.
“Challenge and Response in Modern Japanese Population History,”
Paper presented to the Conference on Development in Modern Asia,
University of Minnesota, 1987.
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations [Continued]
“Aging and Older Worker in Japan,” Talk to the Graduate Group in
Demography, University of California (Berkeley), 1987.
(with S. R. Johansson) “ Morbidity and Mortality of Japanese
Workers in the Twentieth Century,” Paper
presented to the Meetings of the Social Science History
Association, 1987.
“Queue and Non-queue Dualism in Postwar Japan,” Paper presented
to the Labor Seminar, University of California (Berkeley),
1988.
“Flexible Control: Internalization of Postwar Japanese Labor in
Comparative Perspective,” Paper presented to Meetings of the
Association of Japanese Business Studies, San Francisco, 1989.
“Morbidity and Mortality in Interwar Japan,” Paper delivered at
the University of Washington and the East-West Center, 1989.
“Dualism in Postwar Japan,” Paper presented at Dshisha
University and the East-West Center, 1989.
“Human Resource Control versus Natural Resource Control:
Contrasting Patterns in Economic Innovation, Japan and the United
States,” Paper presented to the Kansai Labor Seminar, Osaka,
1989.
“Health and the Demand for Labor in Inter-war Japan,” Paper
presented to the Graduate Group in Demography, University of
California (Berkeley), 1989.
“The Rise and Decline of Unions in Postwar Japan,” Paper
presented at the University of Victoria (1990), at the Asian
Studies Seminar (1990), at the University of Alberta, Department of
Economics (1990), and at the Japan Economic Seminar, Harvard
University (1990).
(with T. McDorman) “A Canada-Japan Free Trade Agreement? Some
Preliminary Considerations,” Paper
prepared for members of the British Columbia cabinet, 1990.
“Unions and Economic Structure: Unionization in Japan, Canada
and the United States,” Paper presented at Fukuoka University and
the Kansai Labor Economics Seminar, Kyoto University, 1990.
(with Y. Nakata) “Education and Occupation: An Enquiry in the
Relationship between College
specialization and the Labor Market in Postwar Japan,” Paper
delivered to the Conference on Continuity and Change in Japanese
Education, University of Victoria, 1990.
“Income, Health and Physical Well Being in Japan, 1900-1970,”
Paper presented to the Economic History Seminar, University of
Toronto, 1991.
“Family System and Labor Market Gift Exchange in Prewar Japan,”
Paper presented to the International Research Center for Japanese
Studies, Kyoto, 1992.
“Unions and Collective Bargaining in Japan and the United
States: A Comparative Analysis,” Paper presented at Dshisha
University, Kyoto, 1992.
“Education, Labor Segmentation and Occupational Specialization
in Postwar Japan,” Paper presented at Osaka University and at Tokyo
Gakugei University, 1992.
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations [Continued]
“Japanese Unions and Shunt Collective Bargaining: A Doleful Tale
of Accumulation, 1954-1990,” Paper
presented at the Kansai Labor Seminar and at the Japan Institute
of Labour, 1992.
“Gift Exchange and Labor Segmentation in Prewar Japan,” Paper
presented at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and at Clio-ASSA
Meetings, Anaheim, California, 1993.
“Demographic Interlude: Divergence and Convergence in Mortality
and Fertility from the Tokugawa Period to the Present,” Paper
presented to 1993 International Workshop on Historical Demography,
Chiba, Japan, and at the Annual Meetings of the IUSSP, Montreal,
Canada, 1993.
“Household Structure and Labor Markets in Prewar Japan,” Paper
presented at Tezukayama University, Ritsumeikan University, and
Osaka Gakuin University, 1994.
“Unemployment in Canada and Japan: A Comparison,” Paper
presented at Dshisha University, 1994.
“The Market for Older Workers in Japan: A Long Run View,” Paper
presented at the Economic Research Center, Nagoya University, 1994,
and at the Kokuseika to Sangy Rd Seisaku Kenkykai Seminar,
1994.
“Work, Health and Height: Japan, 1870-1940,” Paper presented to
the Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association,
Atlanta, Georgia, 1994.
“Small Scale Production and Urban Expansion in Industrializing
Japan: Nagoya, 1890-1940,” Paper presented to Round Table on Urban
Demography during Industrialization, XVIIIth International Congress
on Historical Sciences, Montreal, 1995.
“Household Structure and Labor Markets in Postwar Japan,” Paper
presented at XVIIIth International Congress on Historical Sciences,
1995.
“Osaka and Tokyo,” Paper presented at the International Research
Center for Japanese Studies and at
Kyoto Gakuen University (1997), at University of Victoria (1998)
and at the UBC Interdisciplinary
Conference on Japanese Business and Economic System: History and
Prospects for the 21st Century, (1999).
“Structural Change in Japan: Its Impact on Asia and on the
Pacific Rim of North America,” presented to the University of
Victoria/National Sun Yat-sen University Conference, Victoria,
British Columbia, 1999.
“Economic and Demographic Integration in the Asia-Pacific and
Structural Change in Japan and Pacific
Canada,” Paper to be presented to the Japan Economic Seminar,
Columbia University, February 26, 2000.
“Inequality, Ideology, Autarky and Structural Change: The
Biological Standard of Living in Japan Between the World Wars,”
Paper presented to the European Social Sciences History Association
Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 12-15, 2000; and to
the West Coast Meetings of
the Association of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Long Beach,
California, October, 2000
“Trade and Migration: A Long-Run View,” Paper presented to the
RIIM/Metropolis seminar series, Simon
Fraser University, May, 2001
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations [Continued]
“Infrastructure Investment and Industrialization in Postwar
Asia: How Relevant is Japan?, “ Paper presented to the Japan
Seminar Series, Henry M. Jackson School of International Affairs,
University of Washington, May, 2001
“Facilitating Growth, Coordinating Growth: Municipal Policy,
City Planning and Industrial Policy in
Prewar Japan,” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the
Association of Asian and Asian American Studies on the Pacific
Coast (ASPAC), Monterey, California, June, 2001.
“Asian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest: Canadian and
American Experiences Compared,” Paper presented to the XXIV General
Population Conference of the International Union for the Scientific
Study of Population (IUSSP), Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, August,
2001.
“The Dynamics of European and Asian Immigration to Vancouver: An
Historical Perspective,” Paper presented to the Workshop on
“History and Integration of Immigrants to Canada,” Fifth National
Metropolis Conference, Ottawa, October, 2001
“Trade and Migration: An Historical and Econometric
Investigation,” (with David Giles) Econometrics Seminar, University
of Victoria Economics Department Seminar Series, November, 2001
“A Biological Basis for Human Development? Net Nutrition, the
Biological Standard of Living, and the Human Development Index in
the Asia-Pacific,” Paper presented to the First International
Conference on
Economics and Human Biology, Tübingen, Germany, July 11-14,
2002.
“Economic Assimilation of Japanese Immigrants in North America:
The Importance of Country of Origin as Well as Country of
Destination,” Paper presented to the Conference, “Changing Japanese
Identities in Multicultural Canada,” University of Victoria, August
22-24, 2002, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
“Modern Japan’s Path to Global Integration: The Competing Pulls
of Diffusion of Innovation,
International Migration and Trade,” Paper presented to the
Centre for Japanese Research, University of
British Columbia, October 18, 2002, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada [Available on the webpage for
the Centre for Japanese Research, University of British
Columbia]; at the 45th Annual Conference of the
Western Social Science Association, April 11, 2003, Las Vegas,
Nevada; and at the 28th Annual Meeting of
the Social Science Association, November 15, 2003, Baltimore,
Maryland.
“Bound for Distant Lands: Trade and Migration in the Modern
World,” Paper presented at the 45th Annual Conference of the
Western Social Science Association, April 10, 2003, Las Vegas,
Nevada
“Professional Specialization: Why Labour Market Changes Have
Undermined the Role of Economic History in Economics Departments,”
A paper delivered to the “Future of Economic History”
Conference,
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario: October 18, 2003.
“The Perverse Globalization of a Technology: The Japanese
Language, 1860-1960,” Talk presented in the Department of
Economics, University of Victoria, November 19, 2003.
“Infrastructure, Trade Driven Growth Potential and Economic
Development in Two Dominions: Canada
and Australia Compared, 1917-1975,” Seminar presentation in the
Department of Economics, University of California at Davis,
September, 2004 and at the Canadian Network in Economic History
Conference, April 2005, Kingston, Ontario.
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations [Continued]
“Infrastructure, Trade Driven Growth Potential and Economic
Development, “ Presentation to the Department of Economics,
University of Victoria, February, 2005.
“Crossover in International Migration: Causes and Consequences,”
Presentation to the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology,
University of Washington, February, 2005.
“The Political Economy of Infrastructure-Trade Driven Growth,
1886-1990,” Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meetings of the
Social Science History Association, November 3-6, 2005, Portland,
Oregon
“A Tale of Three Island Frontiers: Japanese Migration to
Hokkaido, Hawaii, and Vancouver Island,” Paper presented to the XIV
International Economic History Congress, August 25, 2006, Helsinki,
Finland.
“Elites in the Industrialization of China and Japan, 1850-2000,”
Paper presented at the 2009 Annual
Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, Toronto,
Ontario, May, 2009 and at the Asia-Pacific Economic and Business
Conference, Berkeley, California, February 18-20, 2011.
“The American System of Manufactures: Factor Bias or the
Democratization of Invention?” Paper presented at the Annual
Meetings of the Canadian Economics Association, Calgary, Alberta,
June, 2012.
“Lethality at Lower Prices: How the American System of
Manufactures and Mass Production Shaped Modern Warfare,” Paper
presented to the XVIth World Economic Congress of the International
Economic History Association, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July,
2012.
“Why the Prince Consort was Right: Nationalism, Economic
Development, and Violence, 1800-2000,” Paper presented to the
Annual Meetings of the Western Economics Association, San
Francisco, California, June, 2012.
Comments on paper presented by Martin Saavedra, “Early Childhood
Conditions: Evidence from Japanese-American Internment,” Presented
at the Annual Meetings of the Economic History Association,
Vancouver, British Columbia, September.
“Contested Identities: Secularism and Economic Development in
the Contemporary World,” Paper delivered to the Religious Faith and
Applied Sciences Conference, Utah State University, Orem, Utah,
November, 2013.
Working Papers Posted to Social Science Research Network
“Elites in the Industrialization of China and Japan,
1850-2000”
“Lethality at Lower Prices: How the American System of
Manufactures and Mass Production Shaped Modern Warfare”
“The American System of Manufactures: Factor Bias or the
Democratization of Invention?”
“Why the Prince Consort Was Right: Nationalism, Economic
Development, and Violence, 1800-2000”
“The Two Axial Ages of Economic History”
CARL MOSK[Continued]
Active Research Projects:
The Impact of Religion on Economic Development
Nationalism and Economic Development
Technological History
The Impact of War in Economic History
Conferences Organized:
Conference on British Demographic History, Asilomar, California,
1983.
Conference on Continuity and Change in Japanese Education,
Victoria, 1990
Editorial Board, Journal of International Trade and Economic
Development
Editorial board, E-ASPAC
Listings in Who’s Whos: Empire, Lexington, Contemporary,
Academic (Who’s Who in Social Sciences
Higher Education), Presidential Who’s Who
Contributor to Encyclopedia of Earth
Referee for Macmillan, Routledge, and a variety of journals
including Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review,
Population and Development Review, etc.
Mentor for IDRN International Development Conference.
