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Program of the 2015 HES Annual Conference - Friday June 26th - Monday June 29th
Friday Afternoon 4:30-6:00 - Plenary Session: Presentations by 2015 HES Award Winners
Manuela Fernandez Pinto, Dorfman Prize Winner:
“Learning from Ignorance: Agnotology’s Challenge to Philosophy of Science”
Kevin Hoover, "Best Article" award winner:
"On the Reception of Haavelmo’s Econometric Thought"
Friday 6:30 PM -- Opening Reception
Saturday Morning 8:30 - 10:00 - Concurrent Sessions
Session Chair Discussant
Kirsten Madden
James and J. S. Mill
Gouverneur
Persky
Bianchini
Virginie
Joseph
Victor
Macroeconomics in the Post-War Era
Andrada
Alexandre
Da Silva
Danilo
Fuchs
Erich
John Stuart Mill and William Stanley Jevons on the economic value of women’s household activity
Labour Manged Firms in 19th Century Economic Thought
Inquiry Into James Mill's Interpretation of Adam Smith's Love of Praiseworthiness
Kirsten Madden
Bruce Kaufman
J. Garrido
Kevin Hoover
Understanding Robert Lucas (1967-1981)
The First Keynesian Reactions to Lucas’s Macroeconomics of Equilibrium
Lawrence R. Klein and the Making of Macroceconometrics
James Wible
Erich Pinzon-Fuchs
Kevin Hoover
Alternative Approaches to Development Economics
Bracarense
Natalia
Business Cycles as the Foundation of Development Economics
Karintha
Sunil
The Self Sufficient Village Economy and Gandhi's Economic Ideas
Mateos
Sylvere
Human Capital, Give Us Theoretical Foundations Please!
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
Michele Alacevich
Balbir Sihag
Roger Backhouse
Economists and Philosophers
Coker
David
England
Christopher
Ragatz
Julie
Polly Cleveland
Rawls and Knight
Henry George and John Dewey: The Spatial Economics of Culture
Hempel and the Economists
Saturday Morning 10:30-12:00- Concurrent Sessions
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Empirical Economics and Political Economy in the 20 Century
Hirschman
Shenk
Stapleford
Daniel
Timothy
Thomas
Ross Emmett
Polly Cleveland
D. Wade Hands
Session Chair Discussant
Thomas Stapleford
Rediscovering the 1%: Economic Expertise and Inequality Knowledge
Measuring, Managing, and Inventing the Economy: The Case of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Interwar Comparisons: The Divergent Paths of Early Econometrics in Europe and the United States
General Discussant: Malcolm Rutherford
Adam Smitth I - The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Jerry Evansky
Blosser
Joseph
Responsibility and Moral Education: Rethinking Smith’s Impartial Spectator and the Virtues
Garrido
Jose de la Cruz Moral sentiments and the perspective of the Other in the Adam Smith System of Natural Liberty
Hammer
Eric
Adam Smith, Moral Sentiments, and the Welfare State
How Far is Schadenfreude from Resentment-- and Vanity from the Desire for Gratitude?
Khalil
Elias
Matthew Gaetano
J. Daniel Hammond
Bruce Kaufman
Jerry Evansky
Theory and Method in Historical Research
Lawrence Boland
Dadgar
Yadollah
Cheng Li
History of economic thought and enhancing the sustainability of political economy itself
Jose Edwards
Leviaux
Pierre
Cliometrics of Growth and Biology in the Economic Thought of Fogel (post 1982) and Galor (2013): A M
Taalbi
Josef
Lawrence Boland
Causality and structure in economic and historical processes
Welfare
Baujard
Banzhaf
Joseph Persky
Antoinette
Spencer
Steve Medema
Polly Cleveland
An history of welfare economics
John Krutilla and the "Ecological Turn" in Environmental Economics
Saturday Afternoon 1:30-3:00 - Concurrent Sessions
Session Chair Discussant
On the Collection and Use of Economic Data
Malcolm Rutherford
Berdell
John
Origins and Implications of Chicago Futures Markets Regulations and Regulatory Institutions.
Bert Barreto
The Katona-Tobin controversy on the predictive value of attitudinal data.
Dechaux
Pierrick
Robert Dimand
Reamer
Andrew
The Mercantilist Policy Origins of Federal Economic Statistical Agencies.
Thomas Stapleford
From Natural Law to Classical Economics
John Berdell
Saether
Arild
From Natural Law to Political Economy
Nohara
Shinji
Commerce, economic development, and equilibrium in Montesquieu, Hume, and Smith
John Berdell
Jerry Evansky
Fisher and Friedman: Origins and Reception of Innovative Ideas
J. Daniel Hammond
Vila
Adrien
Don Mathews
From the Fisher effect to a cycle theory: Genesis and reception of debt-deflation theory
Gomez Betancourt
Rebeca
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
Mathews
Don
Did Irving Fisher Really Discover the Phillips Curve?
Religion and the History of Economic Thought
Ballor
Jordan
Adam Smith and Scripture
Gaetano
Matthew
The Just Price in the School of Salamanca
Heretics of the Intelligentsia: Vekhi and the Russian Religious Rejection of Marxism
Pahman
Dylan
Jordan Ballor
Joseph Blosser
Loic Charles
Anna Klimina
Saturday Afternoon 3:30 - 4:30 - Plenary Session: Bruce Kaufman, Invited Speaker
"The Origins and Theory Foundation of Original Institutional Economics Reconsidered"
Saturday 5:00 PM - History of Economics Society Business Meeting
Sunday Morning 8:30-10:00 - Concurrent Sessions
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Session Chair
Discussant
Early 20 Century Tax Policy – Theory and Practice
Hutchinson
Camden
The Historical Origins of the Debt-Equity Distinction
Johnson
Marianne
Harold Groves, Wisconsin Institutionalism and Postwar Public Finance
Marianne Johnson
Political Economy in the 18th Century
McPhail
Edward
Grandi
Giovanni
Ross Emmett
The economic thought of Ernst Carl
David Skene on Credit and Trade
Shinji Nohara
Carlos Suprinyak
Keynes
Ahiakpor
Sutch
Dimand
James
Richard
Robert
Applying Modern Microeconomics
Griffen
Zach
Breslau
Daniel
Singleton
John
Humberto Barreto
On the Implausibility of Keynes’s Liquidity-Trap Proposition
Norman Obst
The Liquidity Trap, the Great Depression, and Unconventional Policy: Reading Keynes at the Zero LoweRobert Dimand
Keynes Narrates the Great Depression
David Andrews
Spencer Banzhaf
Michael Beggs
Seeing Like a Firm: Eric Hanushek and the Valuation of “Teacher Quality”
The Price Machine: Engineering, Economics, and the Politics of Electricity Markets
The Empirical Economist's Toolkit: From Models to Methods
Sunday Morning 10:30-12:00 - Concurrent Sessions
Roundtable Discussion: "Becoming Applied" -- A preview of the 2016 HOPE Conference
Beatrice Cherrier
Fabian Braesemann
Session Chair Discussant
Beatrice Cherrier
Roger Backhouse
John T. Singleton
Dan Hamermesh
Marianne Johnson
Spencer Banzhaf
Institutionalism
Glock
Klimina
Wible
Judge
Anna
James
Bruce Kaufman
“Economic Balance” in the Thought of New Deal Economists
Malcolm Rutherford
Use and abuse of Traditional Institutionalism in contemporary Russian nationalist economics
Adam Leeds
The Puzzle of C. S. Peirce’s Pragmatism and Economics
Julie Ragatz
Making Economic Theory in 1950s and 1960s - I
Ivan Moscati
“Exceptional and Unimportant”? The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Externalities in Economic Analysis
Medema
Steven
Herfeld
Catherine
Economics and the ‘Behavioral Sciences Movement’
The Coleman Report and the Education Production Function
Holden
Laura
Ross Emmett
Pedro Duarte
Dan Hirschman
Methodological Perspectives on Modern Economics
D. Wade Hands
Boland
Lawrence
Time and knowledge matters: George Richardson’s 1959 view of equilibrium attainment
Scott Scheall
Gabriele Ciampini
Scheall
Scott
Kinds of Scientific Rationalism: The Case for Methodological Liberalism
Meyer
Daniel
Post-Crisis Economics in Transition? A Field Analysis of Academic Power and Public Struggles
Daniel Breslau
Sunday Afternoon 1:15-2:15 - Plenary Session: Dan Hamermesh, Invited Speaker
"Reflections on Fifty Years as an Empirical Economist"
Sunday Afternoon 2:45-4:45 - Concurrent Sessions
Monetary Theory and Policy
Beggs
Mike
Reay
Michael
Rojas
Pierre-hernan
Session Chair Discussant
Robert Dimand
Liquidity's Two Careers
Richard Sutch
Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Crisis)
Ivan Moscati
"The Pre-Bretton Woods Monetary Order: A Study of Harry Dexter White's Contribution to Internationa James Ahiakpor
Behavioral Economics
Berg
Behavioral Economics' Greatest Hits
Avi Cohen
Nathan
Cheng Li
Braesemann
Hands
Edwards
Fabien
D. Wade
Jose
Nathan Berg
Catherine Herfeld
Antoinette Baujard
The Psychology of Behavioral Economics
Behavioral Economics,Rational Choice Theory, and the Representative Agent
Adaptation-Level Theory, Happiness Treadmills and Behavioral Economics
Episodes in the Mathematization of Economics
Pedro Duarte
Carvajalino
Juan
Edwin Bidwell Wilson and the rise of mathematical economics in United-States, 1920-1940
Pedro Duarte
Scott
Sonya
Vito Volterra and the Role of Economists: Early Mathematical Endorsements of Economics as a Science Spencer Banzhaf
Sunil Karintha
Sihag
Balbir
Exploring the Origin of Mathematical Economics
Classical Political Economy
Paschoal
João Luiz
McPhail
Edward
Kilincoglu
Deniz
Pelaez
Jose
Ayman Reda
Liberalism in the Classical Political Economy
Berkeley’s Rules for Sound Banking: Public Credit and “promot[ing] the real interest of [the] country”
The Impact of Classical Political Economy in the Ottoman Empire
Theory of Value Unified
Patrick Higgins
Giovanni Grandi
Ayman Reda
Elias Khalil
Sunday 5:00 - 6:15 PM -- Plenary Session: Distinguished Fellow Award (Roger Backhouse);
Presidential Address by Robert Leonard
"E. F. Schumacher and the Making of Small is Beautiful"
Annual HES Banquet, 7:00 PM
Monday Morning 8:30-10:00 - Concurrent Sessions
Session Chair
Discussant
“A Call for Chapter Proposals: Publishing in the Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought, Roundtable Session”
Kirsten Madden
Robert Dimand
Economics and Economists in Authoritarian Regimes
Anna Klimina
Mattei
Clara
The Guardians of Capitalism
Leeds
Adam
In All But Name: The Reconstruction of Economic Reason in the Post-War Soviet Economy
Suprinyak
Carlos
Funding Policy Research under Distasteful Regimes
Adam Smith - II
Alean
Clark
Quinn
Yann Giraud
Marianne Johnson
Stephen Meardon
Scott Scheall
Augusto
Mike
Kevin
Social Justice in Smith and Sen
The Virtuous Discourse of Adam Smith: A Liberal Regard for Prevailing Prejudice
Was Adam Smith a Moral Subjectivist?
Making Economic Theory in the 1950s and 1960s - II
Manseri
Sonia
Stepping Out of the Path: Solow, Samuelson, Sen and Hahn
Moscati
Ivan
How Savage Converted Samuelson to Expected Utility Theory
Boianovsky
Mauro
Modeling Economic Growth: Domar on Moving Equilibrium
Monday Morning 10:30-12:00 - Concurrent Sessions
Yadollah Dadgar
Sonya Scott
J. Daniel Hammond
Roger Backhouse
Mauro Boianovsky
Roger Backhouse
Danilo Da Silva
Session Chair
Discussant
Henry Thornton and the Banking School Tradition
James Ahiakpor
Andre-Aigret
Constance
James Laurence Laughlin and the Credit School
Judge Glock
Skaggs
Neil
It's A Wonderful Life - The Henry Thornton Version
Lucy Brilliant
Brilliant
Lucy
A Filiation between Henry Thornton, Ralph George Hawtrey and John Richard Hicks
Don Mathews
Methodological and Philosophical Criticisms of Orthodoxy
Pimenta
Tomas
Alienation and fetishism in Marx’s thought
Andrews
David
What is the marginal product of this? Piero Sraffa, etc.
Li
Cheng
Rationality and Beyond: A Critique of the Nature and Task of Economics
James Wible
David Andrews
Avi Cohen
Josef Taalbi
The Dissemination of Economics: Textbooks and Museums
Rob Leonard
Sonia Manseri
Duarte
Pedro
Textbooks in Postwar Economics: Brazil, 1950-1980
Giraud
Yann
Social and Economic Knowledge in Science Museums
Rob Leonard
Medema
Steve
How Textbooks Create Knowledge and Meaning: The Case of the Coase Theorem Intermediate Microec Mike Reay
Studies on Mount Pelerin Society Members
Ross Emmett
Ciampini
Gabriele
Bertrand de Jouvenel in the Mont Pelerin Society, from the Austrian School to the Social Market EconomScott Scheall
Hammond
J. Daniel
Milton Friedman and the Scientific Status of Storytelling
Richard Sutch
From Political Economists to Politician Economists: How Walter Lippmann’s Search for the Good Socie J. Daniel Hammond
Higgins
Patrick