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Second Call for papers for a Conference on the 
History of Macroeconomics to beheld in Louvain-la-neuve (20-21-22 January, 
2005) 
 
PLEASE NOTE THE IMMINENT DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS. For practical reasons we 
have had to bring this forward about a week from our original deadline. 
 
Over the past decade or so there has been growing interest in the history 
of macroeconomics. Eminent macroeconomists (Blanchard, Woodford) have 
reflected on the history of their field. Books include Young’s book on 
IS-LM; Laidler on pre-Keynesian macroeconomics; and Mehrling on 
Young,Hansen and Shaw. There have been conferences on Patinkin and 
IS-LM.However, these efforts have been piecemeal, with many people working 
in isolation from others interested in the field. We believe that it is 
time to organise a broader conference on the history of macroeconomics that 
will draw together economists and historians of economics who are working 
on the subject. Our hope is that this will encourage more systematic 
inquiries into the subject and open up new ways of thinking about it. It 
may make it possible to address broader questions such as the identity of 
macroeconomics as a field in relation 
to economics as a whole as well as a better understanding of its origins 
and the relevance of this for understanding contemporary developments.  
 
Our aim is to keep the conference fairly small (around 30 people) to 
optimise interactions and discussion, though this may have to be adjusted 
in view of the response we get. Proposals for papers can cover any aspect 
of the history of macroeconomics. Areas that might be 
discussed include the following: 
 
– Business cycle and monetary theory in the inter-war period and their 
relations to post-war developments 
– The first generation of Keynesian economists: Hicks, 
Samuelson,Modigliani, Hansen, Lange  
–  From the monetarist Counter-revolution to the Keynesian/monetarist 
synthesis 
– The neoclassical synthesis and the new classical macroeconomics 
– The rise and decline of Keynesian macroeconometric models 
– The interaction of economic theory and econometric techniques 
– Revisiting disequilibrium theory 
– From IS-LM to real business cycle models 
– Macroeconomics in textbooks 
 
Practical details: 
 
– The conference will take place at Louvain-la-neuve, home of the 
Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), on January 20, 21, 22,2005.  
The conference has very limited financial support, which means that 
contributors are likely to have to cover their own expenses. 
– Proposals for papers (five hundred words) should be sent as email 
attachments to the three conference organizers, Roger Backhouse,Pascal 
Bridel and Michel De Vroey, by SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2004, to the addresses 
below. If possible Papers will be selected by April 1, 2004. 
All papers for the conference will be circulated to conference participants 
in advance,and thus must be completed no later than December 1, 2004. 
 
– For further information, please contact: 
 
Professor Roger  Backhouse, Department of  Economics, University of 
Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United 
Kingdom([log in to unmask]) 
Professor Pascal Bridel, Centre Walras-Pareto, University of 
Lausanne,1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland([log in to unmask]) 
Professor Michel De Vroey, Economics Department, Université catholiquede 
Louvain, 3 Place Montesquieu, 1348 Louvain-la-neuve, 
Belgium([log in to unmask]) 
 
 
 
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