34th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society
8 – 11 June 2007
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Program of Sessions
FRIDAY, June 8
12:30 - 4:30 p.m. HES Executive Committee Meeting Buchanan House
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. On Site Registration (continuing through Saturday) Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall Lobby
4:30 - 7:00 p.m. On Site Registration (continuing through Saturday) Mason Hall
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Plenary Session: Distinguished Visitor Lecture
Mason Hall - Edwin Meese Conference Room
“Let Us Understand Adam Smith”
James M. Buchanan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, George Mason University
& University Distinguished Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Virginia Tech
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Opening Reception (All are welcome!)
Mason Hall Atrium
Sponsored by Provost’s Office, George Mason University
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Virginia Cook Out (Ticket required)
Mason Hall Rooms D3 A &B
SATURDAY, June 9
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
8:00a.m. to 12:00 p.m. On Site Registration
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall Lobby
Session 1: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 1A: Robbins's Essay 75 Years On
Chair/Organizer: Steven Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
Steve Medema (University of Colorado at Denver) and Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)
Defining Economics: Robbins’ Essay in Theory and Practice
Dave Colander, Middlebury College
How Robbins' Methodological Prescriptions Have Been Misunderstood
Alain Marciano, University of Reims
Buchanan, Robbins and The Subject Matter Of Economics: A Note On Limited Economic Imperialism
Session discussant: Wade Hands, Puget Sound University
SESSION 1B: Keynes
Chair: Bradley Bateman, Grinnell College
Hirai Toshiaki, Sophia University
To What Degree did Keynes Approach the General Theory in 1933?
Cristina Marcuzzo, University di Roma “La Sapienza”
Jerome de Boyer des Roches, University of Paris IX (Dauphine) and PHARE
Discussants: Bradley Bateman, Grinnell College and Gilles Dostaler, University of Quebec at Montreal
SESSION 1C: On the Spread of Economic Ideas
Chair: Charles McCann, University of Pittsburgh
Arthur Diamond, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Searching for Schumpeter in the Amazon: How He Lives in Books Today
Discussant: Charles McCann, University of Pittsburgh
Tiago Mata, Technical University of Lisbon and Duke University
Economic Drama in the Media – Leonard S. Silk at Business Week and at The New York Times
Discussant: Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College
Evelyn Gick and Wolfgang Gick, Darmouth College
The Economics of Fashion -- From Veblen to Media and Fashion Disclosure
Discussant: Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College
Annie L. Cot, Paris I (Sorbonne)
General Equilibrium Theory in America: from Willard Gibbs to the Harvard Pareto Circle
Discussant: H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University
SESSION 1D: Economics, Religion and Morality
Chair: Ross Emmett, Michigan State University
Paul Oslington, University of New South Wales
Jacob Viner on Religion and Economics
Marie Duggan, Keene State College
Anti-Clerical Aspects of Enlightenment Thought in Spain via Campomanes and Jovellanos
Roberta Rio, University of Macerata
Joseph Weglarz, Walsh College
Leonard Lessius: The Oracle of the Low Countries
Discussants: Ross Emmett, Michigan State University, Laurie Johnson, University of Denver
SESSION 1E: Smith
Chair: Jeffrey Young, St. Lawrence University
Warren Samuels, Michigan State University
Discussant: Jeffrey Young, St. Lawrence University
Maria Paganelli, Yeshiva University
Where Did Homo Economicus Go? Experimental Results and Possible Answers from Adam Smith
Discussant: Jeffrey Young, St. Lawrence University
Yong Yoon, George Mason University
Publicness in Smith's Extent of the Market Theorem
Discussant: David Warsh, Economic Principals
Masazumi Wakatabe, Waseda University
Knowledge, Markets, and Governance: Adam Smith's Project Reconsidered
Discussant: David Warsh, Economic Principals
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Session 2: 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 2A: Models and Empirics
Chair: Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics
Robert Goldfarb, George Washington University and Jonathan Ratner, Westat
Exploring Different Visions of the Model-Empirics Nexus: Solow versus Lipsey-K-S
Elodie Bertrand, University of Littoral and PHARE
Questioning the Role of Empirical Studies in Coase's Method
Session discussant: Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics
SESSION 2B: YOUNG SCHOLARS: On the Scottish Enlightenment
Chair: Jerry Evensky, Syracuse University
Ryan Peterson, George Mason University
Antipathetic Motivation in Adam Smith
Martha King, St. Louis University
Conceptions of Human Nature in Economic Systems and Thought
Session discussant: Jerry Evensky, Syracuse University
SESSION 2C: Wicksell
Chair: Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia
Nicolas Barbaroux, CREUSET-CNRS
Woodford and Wicksell: a Cashless Economy or a Moneyless Economy Framework?
Discussant: Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia
Neil Skaggs and George Waters, Illinois State University
Before Woodford and Wicksell: The Banking School Approach to Monetary Policy
Discussant: Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia
Marianne Johnson, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Revisitng Wicksell: Toward a Broader Interpretation of the Unanimity Rule
Discussant: Steven Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
Mariano Alierta, RS Economica Aragonesa
Freedom and Necessity in Market Economies
Discussant: Steven Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
SESSION 2D: Recent Contributions I
Chair: Arthur Diamond, University of Nebraska Omaha
Craig Freedman, Macquarie University
Five Easy Pieces: George Stigler's Blueprint for a Counter-Revolution
Discussant: Arthur Diamond, University of Nebraska Omaha
Hamid Hosseini, King’s College
Michael Porter's Competitive Advantage: It Should be Taken More Seriously
Discussant: Arthur Diamond, University of Nebraska Omaha
Grimot Nane, London South Bank University
The Political Economy of Olson: Development Economics and the Nigerian Experience
Discussant: Yong Yoon, George Mason University
SESSION 2E: (Roundtable Discussion) On Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues
Chair/Organizer: David Levy, George Mason University
Presenters:
A. M. C. Waterman, University of Manitoba
Vernon Smith, George Mason University
David Levy (George Mason University) and Sandra Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College)
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Session 3: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 3A: Issues in Macroeconomics
Chair: Dave Colander, Middlebury College
Robert Dimand, Brock University
Edmund Phelps and Modern Macroeconomics
Richard Kane, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
The Debate over Final Product: Simon Kuznets vs. the U.S. Department of Commerce
Avi Cohen, York University
The Mythology of Capital or of Static Equilibrium? The Bohm-Bawerk/Clark Controversy
Marin Muzhani, University of Florence
Capital Controversy and Theory of Growth
Discussants: Dave Colander, Middlebury College and Kevin Hoover, Duke University
SESSION 3B: Observation
Chair/Organizer: Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam
Harro Maas, University of Amsterdam
Armchair Observation in Economics: The Observation Loadedness of Theory
Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics
From the Observations of Experience: Newlyn and the Newlyn-Phillips Machine
Judy L. Klein, Mary Baldwin College
Modeling the Optimizing Properties of the Observed Two-bin Inventory Policy
Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam
The Problem of Passive Observations
Discussant: E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
SESSION 3C: YOUNG SCHOLARS: On the Emergence of Modern Economics
Chair: Steven Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
Floris Heukelom, University of Amsterdam
The Market in Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Discussant: Kail Padgitt, George Mason University
Jean-Baptiste Fleury, EconomiX-Cachan
Discussant: Steven Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
SESSION 3D: Economicsphobia and Economicsphilia
Chair/Organizer: William Coleman, Australian National University
William Coleman, Australian National University
Economics, Anti-Economics and Freakonomics
Discussant: Paul Oslington, University of New South Wales
Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College and David Levy, George Mason University
Economics in Cartoons
Discussant: Alain Marciano, University of Reims
Edward McPhail, Dickinson College
G. K. Chesterton
Discussant: Gregory Moore, University of Notre Dame, Australia
SESSION 3E: East-West Intellectual Exchanges
Chair: Balbir Sihag, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Coskun Cakir, Georgetown University
How the Turks Came to Know Adam Smith: A Study of the Spread of the Classical Economic Thought
Mohammad Hassan Fotros, Bu-Ali Sina University
Content Analysis of Iranian Economic Textbooks
S. (Ghazi) Ghazanfar, University of Idaho
Capitalist Tradition In Early Arab-Islamic Civilization
Session Discussant: Balbir Sihag, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Break
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Session 4: 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 4A: Credit and Banking
Chair: Robert Dimand, Brock University
Harald Hagemann, University of Hohenheim
L. Albert Hahn's Economic Theory of Bank Credit
Muriel Dal Pont Legrand, CNRS and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and
Ludovic Frobert, TRIANGLE - CNRS and ENS Lyon
A Brief Economic Biography of Clement Juglar (1819-1905)
Daniela Parisi, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
The Analysis of Secular Trend in the 1930s: Jenny Kretschmann (1884-1980)
Session Discussant: Robert Dimand, Brock University
SESSION 4B: 19th Century Economics
Chair: Jose Luis Cardoso, Technical University of Lisbon
Gregory Moore, University of Notre Dame, Australia
Leslie Stephen and the Clubbable Men of Radical London
Discussant: Charles McCann, University of Pittsburgh
Maria de Fatima Brandao and Antonio Almodovar, CEMPRE/Universidade do Porto
The Diffusion of Say's Political Economy: the Case of Portugal in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Discussant: Leonidas Montes, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
Barbara Brown, Pace University and Torsten Schmidt, University of New Hampshire
Auspitz, Lieben, Marshall, and Giffen
Discussant: Jose Luis Cardoso, Technical University of Lisbon
SESSION 4C: YOUNG SCHOLARS: On Continental European Influences on Economic Thought
Chair: Mary Morgan, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Jose Miguel Edwards, PHARE-GRESE, University of Paris I (Sorbonne)
Psychophysical Insights in Contemporary Economics
Discussant: Mary Morgan, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Arash Molavi, University of Hohenheim
Discussant: Peter Boettke, George Mason University
Francisco Aldape, New School
Equilibrium or Socialist Theorists
Discussant: Douglas MacKenzie, SUNY Plattsburgh
SESSION 4D: Four Centuries of Sympathy in Economics
Chair/Organizer: David Levy, George Mason University
Eric Schliesser, Syracuse University
The Spinozistic Origins of Smithian Sympathy
Discussant: Jerry Evensky, Syracuse University
Sandra Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College) and David Levy, George Mason University
Adam Smith's Sympathetic Principles in 19th Century Economics and Biology
Discussant: Evelyn Forget, University of Manitoba
Kevin McCabe, George Mason University
Using Experiments to Study Sympathy in the Late 20th and Early 21st Century
Discussant: Vernon Smith, George Mason University
SESSION 4E: The Politics of Economic Calculation: Studies in the 20th Century
Chair/Organizer: Thomas Stapleford, University of Notre Dame
Julia Mensink, London School of Economics
Users and Producers of Poverty Measures: a Business Approach
Thomas Stapleford, University of Notre Dame
Collective Bargaining and Statistical Methodology in Postwar America
H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University
Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis at the Crossroads: Principles & Procedures
David Duhamel (YOUNG SCHOLAR), PHARE-GRESE, University of Paris I (Sorbonne)
The Missing Women: Back to the Values
Session Discussant: Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Plenary Session: Invited Lecture
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall South
“The Ascent/Descent from Adam Smith”
David Warsh, Editor
Economic Principals
5:30 - 6:45 p.m.
HES Business Meeting
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall South
(All are welcome; find out what your Society is doing!)
SUNDAY, June 10
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Session 5: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 5A: Economists and Politicians
Chair: Pedro Garcia Duarte, Duke University
Clifford Thies, Shenandoah University and Gary M. Pecquet, Central Michigan University
Discussant: Pedro Garcia Duarte, Duke University
Sergio Noto, Verona University
Economics and Finance in the Early Fascism's Economists
appendix: Alberto Dé Stefani, Biographical Note
Discussant: Steve Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
Jose Luis Cardoso, Technical University of Lisbon
The Rise of the Fiscal State in Nineteenth Century Europe: Lessons from the Portuguese Experience
Discussant: Steve Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
Michael McLure, University of Western Australia
Pareto’s Chronicles: Liberty and the Left
Discussant: Steve Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
SESSION 5B: Theories and Measurement of Economic Development and Growth
Chair: Sherryl Kasper, Maryville College
Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia
A View from the Tropics: Celso Furtado and the Theory of Economic Development in the 1950s
Discussant: Joseph Persky, University of Illinois at Chicago
Anna Klimina, University of Saskatchewan
Investment Growth under Institutional Change: the Contribution of Kalecki's (1954) Growth Model
Discussant: Joseph Persky, University of Illinois at Chicago
Cornelia McCarthy, Columbia University
Asymmetry in the History of Economic Thought on Growth
Discussant: Sherryl Kasper, Maryville College
Benjamin H. Mitra-Kahn (YOUNG SCHOLAR), City University, London
Understanding National Accounting in Hindsight
Discussant: Sherryl Kasper, Maryville College
SESSION 5C: Economists, Markets, and Competition
Chair: Daniel Hammond, Wake Forest University
Michael Perelman, California State University, Chico
Railroads and the Increase in Fixed Capital: The Historical Increase in Fixed Capital
Nicola Giocoli, University of Pisa
Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi and José Ricardo B. Goncalves, University of Campinas, Brazil
Markets, Political Power and Society: Walton Hamilton on Institutionalism
Session Discussant: Daniel Hammond, Wake Forest University
SESSION 5D: Henry George: Equity in Economics
Chair/Organizer: Mary M. (Polly) Cleveland, Association for Georgist Studies/Barnard College
John C. Medaille, University of Dallas
Justice and Mr. George: What Henry George Knew, What the Neoclassicists Forgot
Discussant: Alexandra Hyard, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Francis K. Peddle, Dominican University College
Henry George: Aristotelian or Kantian?
Discussant: Robert Rogers, Ashland University
Mary M. (Polly) Cleveland, Association for Georgist Studies/Barnard College
Mason Gaffney's Georgist/Wicksellian Three-factor Macroeconomics
Discussant: Marianne Johnson, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
SESSION 5E: Mandeville, Hume and Smith
Chair: Maria Paganelli, Yeshiva University
Andre Lapidus, University of Paris I (Sorbonne)
The Valuation of Individual Decision and Welfare: A Humean Perspective
Satoko Nakano, Meiji Gakuin University
Mandeville's Skepticism Seen in His Probabilistic View for the Market
Amos Witztum, London Metropolitan University
Interdependence and Equilibrium in Adam Smith
Discussant: Maria Paganelli, Yeshiva University and Eric Schliesser, Syracuse University
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Session 6: 10:30 AM – 12:00 NOON
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 6A: Classical Economics
Chair: Paul Oslington, University of New South Wales
Gavin Kennedy, Heriot-Watt University
Adam Smith's Invisible Hands: From Metaphors to Myths
Discussant: Paul Oslington, University of New South Wales
Scot Stradley, Concordia College
The Philosophy of Human Nature: From Adam Smith to Malthus and Ricardo
Discussant: David Levy, George Mason University
Arie Arnon, Ben Gurion University and UC Berkeley
The Early Round of the Bullionist Debate 1800-1802: Baring, Boyd and Thornton’s Innovative Ideas
Discussant: David Levy, George Mason University
SESSION 6B: (Roundtable Discussion) Are Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand Curves Useful Tools of Economic Analysis?
Chair/Organizer: George Horwich, Purdue University
Presenters:
George Horwich, Purdue University
Dave Colander, Middlebury College
Barkley Rosser, James Madison University
SESSION 6C: Religion and Economics
Chair/Organizer: Edward McPhail, Dickinson College
Edward McPhail, Dickinson College
The Golden Rule and the Greatest Happiness Principle
Daniel Hammond, Wake Forest University
In the Shadows of Vanity: Religion and the Debate over Hierarchy
Discussants: Michael Makowsky, George Mason University, Anthony Waterman, St. John's College, University of Manitoba
SESSION 6D: Walter Eucken and the Freiburg School
Chair/Organizer: Viktor Vanberg, University of Freiburg and Walter Eucken Institute
Viktor Vanberg, University of Freiburg and Walter Eucken Institute
The Freiburg School: Walter Eucken and Ordoliberalism
Discussant: Karen Vaughn, George Mason University
Nils Goldschmidt, Walter Eucken Institute
Walter Eucken's Place in the History of Ideas
Discussant: Peter Boettke, George Mason University
Joachim Zweynert, Hamburg Institute of International Economics and University of Hamburg
How German is German Neoliberalism?
Discussant: Razeen Sally, London School of Economics
Michael Wohlgemuth, Walter Eucken Institute
The Freiburg School and the Hayekian Challenge
Discussant: Bruce Caldwell, University of North Carolina Greensboro
SESSION 6E: Law and Economics
Chair/Organizer: Masazumi Wakatabe, Waseda University
Warren Samuels, Michigan State University
The Interrelations Between Legal and Economic Processes: A Consideration of the Reactions
Discussant: Masazumi Wakatabe, Waseda University
Alain Marciano, University of Reims
Buchanan’s Constitutional Economics: Between Public Choice and the Economic Analysis of the Law
Discussant: Nicola Giocoli, University of Pisa
Neelkant Chamillal, University of Paul Cezanne
Whiteheadian Vespers: A Philosophical Interpretation of J. Buchanan's Theory of Market Process
Discussant: Masazumi Wakatabe, Waseda University
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Plenary Session
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall South
"Dissenting Identities in 1960s Economics"
Tiago Mata, Dissertation winner
Technical University of Lisbon and Duke University
Session 7: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 7A: Insights from Austrian Economics
Chair: Richard Wagner, George Mason University
Hansjoerg Klausinger, Vienna University
The Making of Hayek's 'Monetary Theory and Trade Cycle'
Manuela Mosca, University of Lecce
The Austrian Theory of "Unnatural" Monopoly
Gregor Zwirn, University of Paris I (Sorbonne)
Ludwig von Mises on the Epistemological Foundation of the Social Sciences Reconstructed
Session Discussant: Richard Wagner, George Mason University
SESSION 7B: (Roundtable Discussion) Honouring A.M.C. Waterman and Donald Winch, 2007 Distinguished Fellows
Chair: Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College
Presenters:
Evelyn Forget, University of Manitoba
Donald Winch, University of Sussex
Anthony Waterman, St. John's College, University of Manitoba
David Levy, George Mason University
Warren Samuels, Michigan State University
Ross Emmett, Michigan State University
SESSION 7C: Insights from Pre-Classical Economics
Chair: Glenn Hueckel, Pomona College
Jesús Astigarraga (University of Zaragoza) and Juan Zabalza, University of Alicante
Political Economy in the Spanish Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias of the 18th Century
John Berdell, DePaul University
An Early Supply-Demand Side Controversy: Petty, Law and Cantillon
Isabelle This Saint-Jean, PHARE-LEMMA University of Littoral
Envy and Desire of Destruction
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak, CEDEPLAR/UFMG
The Political Economy of Demographic Management: Power and Population in British Mercantilism
Session Discussant: Glenn Hueckel, Pomona College
SESSION 7D: Money
Chair: Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, University of Campinas, Brazil
Perry Mehrling, Barnard College, Columbia University
The Monetary Economics of Benjamin Graham
Jose Pelaez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Money as Medium of Exchange: K. Iwai Proposal about Menger Monetary Theory
Pedro Garcia Duarte, Duke University
Visiting Frank P. Ramsey: the Public Finance Concept of Optimal Monetary Policy
Discussants: Clifford Thies, Shenandoah University and Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi
3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Break
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Session 8: 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 8A: (Roundtable Discussion) Editing and Publishing in the History of Economics Journals
Chair/Co-organizer: Jose Luis Cardoso, ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon
Co-organizer: Steve Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
Presenters:
Jose Luis Cardoso, ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon
Steve Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
Warren Samuels, Michigan State University
Donald Winch, University of Sussex
Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College
SESSION 8B: Ideology, Politics and Economics
Chair/Organizer: Daniel Hammond, Wake Forest University
Angus Burgin, Harvard University
The Political Economy of the Early Mont Pelerin Society
Discussant: Bruce Caldwell, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Daniel Hammond, Wake Forest University
Transcendental Commitments of Economists: Friedman, Knight, and Nef
Discussant: Ross Emmett, Michigan State University
David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
John U. Nef, Jr., Friedrich Hayek, and the Committee on Social Thought
Discussant: Daniel Hammond, Wake Forest University
Ross Emmett, Michigan State University
Discussant: Tiago Mata, Technical University of Lisbon and Duke University
SESSION 8C: Recent Contributions II
Chair: Grimot Nane, London South Bank University
Barkley Rosser, James Madison University
The Rise and Decline of Mancur Olson's View of "The Rise and Decline of Nations"
Discussant: Grimot Nane, London South Bank University
Ignacio Falgueras-Sorauren, University of Malaga
Robbins as a Forerunner of Modern Theories of Work Extraction
Discussant: Evelyn Forget, University of Manitoba
Balbir Sihag, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Relevance of Begriffsgeschichte to the History of Economic Analysis
Discussant: Evelyn Forget, University of Manitoba
SESSION 8D: Perspectives on Market Socialism
Chair/Organizer: Douglas MacKenzie, SUNY Plattsburgh
Gary Mongiovi, St. John’s University
The Keynesians and Socialism: Franco Modigliani and the Socialist State
Discussant: Daniela Parisi, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Douglas MacKenzie, SUNY Plattsburgh
Financial Markets and Economic Calculation
Discussant: Gary Mongiovi, St. John's University
J. Patrick Gunning, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Mises's Idealistic View of Consumer Sovereignty
Discussant: Douglas MacKenzie, SUNY Plattsburgh
SESSION 8E: On the Methodology of Social Science, Historically Considered
Chair: Art Diamond, University of Nebraska Omaha
Adam Lutzker, University of Michigan Flint
Formalism and its Critics: Notes Towards an Intellectual History
Discussant: Wade Hands, Puget Sound University
Tiziana Foresti, University of Pisa
Discussant: Wade Hands, Puget Sound University
James Wible, University of New Hampshire
The Economic Mind of Charles Sanders Peirce
Discussant: Art Diamond, University of Nebraska Omaha
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Plenary Session: Presidential Address
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall South
"Reflections on the Secularization of American Economics"
Bradley Bateman, Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics & Associate Dean
Grinnell College
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Reception (All are welcome!)
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Sponsored by the Mercatus Center at GMU
7:45 p.m.
HES Banquet (ticket required)
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
MONDAY, June 11
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Session 9: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 9A: Utilitarianism
Chair: Eric Schliesser, Syracuse University
Jeffrey Young, St. Lawrence University
The Role of Utility in Adam Smith
Marco Guidi, University of Pisa
The Greatest Happiness Principle and the Principle of Enlightened Interests: J. B. Say and Bentham
Abdallah Zouache, CREUSET-CNRS and Michel Bellet, CREUSET-CNRS
Social Justice and Common Good: is There a Utilitarian Heritage in Saint-Simonism?
Joseph Persky, University of Illinois at Chicago
On the Thinness of the Utilitarian Defense of Private Property
Discussants: Eric Schliesser, Syracuse University, Annie L. Cot, Paris I (Sorbonne)
SESSION 9B: (Teaching Roundtable) Teaching Classical Economics
Chair/Organizer: Mike Bradley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Presenters:
Jerry Evensky, Syracuse University
Glenn Hueckel, Pomona College
David Levy, George Mason University
Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva University
Neil Skaggs, Illinois State University
William Sockwell, Berry College
SESSION 9C: Socialism and Planning
Chair: Gary Mongiovi, St. John’s University
Nimai Mehta, George Mason University
Planning for Capital: Economic Theory and Socialism
Discussant: Michael D. Thomas, George Mason University
Edd Noell, Westmont College
Fair Wage as Living Wage: Economists' Competing Visions and the Living Wage Movement
Discussant: Gary Mongiovi, St. John’s University
Sapir Handelman, Harvard University
Two Political Pamphlets Immortalized as Sign Posts in the Debate over the Decent Social Order
Discussant: Michael D. Thomas, George Mason University
SESSION 9D: (Roundtable Discussion) In Remembrance of Mark Perlman
Chair/Organizer: Charles McCann, University of Pittsburgh
Presenters:
Warren Samuels, Michigan State University
Ingrid Rima, Temple University
Charles McCann, University of Pittsburgh
Laurence Moss, Babson College
Peter Boettke, George Mason University
Abigail Williams, Abigail Williams and Associates
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
Johnson Center: Dewberry Hall North
Session 10: 10:30 AM – 12:00 NOON
Johnson Center Third Floor Meeting Rooms A - E
SESSION 10A: Economists and Central Banks
Chair/Organizer: Perry Mehrling, Columbia University
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, University of Paris I (Sorbonne) and PHARE
E. W. Kemmerer and the Origins of the FED