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CURRICULUM VITAE
CARL MOSK
July, 2016
Address: 2641 Schooner Way
Pender Island, British Columbia
CANADA V0N 2M2
Home Phone: (250) 629-3989
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.carlmosk.com
Education: University of California, Berkeley Mathematics 1962-66 A.B.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics 1966-67 M.S.
Harvard University Economics 1970-76 Ph.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 1988-2016
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
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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
Emeritus Professor, University of Victoria 2016-
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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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CARL MOSK [Continued]
Reviews [Continued]
Review of Yoshiro Miwa, Japan’s Economic Planning and Mobilization in Wartime, 1930s-1940s: The
Competence of the State, in Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 2015: 106-108.
Review of Akira Hayami, Japan’s Industrious Revolution: Economic and Social Transformations in the
Early Modern Period, in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. LIV, #1 (March, 2016): 246-247.
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).
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CARL MOSK [Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations [Continued]
“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.
“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.
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CARL MOSK [Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations [Continued]
“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.
“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.
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CARL MOSK [Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations [Continued]
“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
“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.
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CARL MOSK [Continued]
Conference and Seminar Presentations [Continued]
“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.
“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”
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CARL MOSK [Continued]
Working Papers Posted to Social Science Research Network (Continued)
“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”
“Contested Identities: Secularism and Economic Development in the Contemporary World”
“The Two Axial Ages of Economic History”
“Is There a Religion Trap? Atheism, Agnosticism, and Innovation”
“Liberal Nationalism, Religious Nationalism, and the Human Development Index”
“Refugees and Religion: The Anatomy of Religion Traps”
Active Research Projects:
Religion and Capitalism in History
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.
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