The HES will have 4 sessions at the 2009 ASSA meetings in San
Francisco. We received a number of excellent session proposals, as
well as individual papers. We selected these 4 sessions in an attempt
to balance periods and approaches, as well as newcomers to the
association and well-known members. Thanks to everyone who offered a
paper:
SESSION TITLE: Theory of Moral Sentiments After 250 Years
Chair: Sandra Peart, University of Richmond
Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois
Adam Smith Shows Bourgeois Theory at Its Amiable Best
Vernon Smith, Chapman University
The Wealth in Adam Smith's First and Last Book
Sandra Peart, University of Richmond and David Levy, George Mason University
The Loss of Sympathy
DISCUSSANTS: Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University; George
Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University; Jonathan Wight, University of
Richmond
2. SESSION TITLE: The Real Debate of the 1950's: Marshallian versus
General Equilibrium Approaches
Chair: E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University
Applied welfare economics at mid-century
Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam
Looking under the hood: Leontief versus statistical econometricians
Eric Schliesser, Leiden University
Monopoly and Methodology at 'Chicago': Nutter and Stigler
SESSION DISCUSSANT:
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
3. SESSION TITLE: The Role of Oral History in the Study of Economics
Chair: Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva University
Craig Freedman, Macquarie University (AU):
South Side Blues: An Oral History of the Chicago School
Tiago Mata, Technical University of Lisbon:
Not biography: how to make the most of oral history of elites
John Lodewijks, University of Western Sydney:
Economists from the Antipodes: What can oral history tell us?
DISCUSSANTS:
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
Paul Oslington, University of Notre Dame (Australia)
4. SESSION TITLE: Growth Theory in Historical Perspective
CHAIR: Robert W. Dimand, Brock University
Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University:
Was Harrod Right?
Harald Hagemann, Universitat Hohenheim-Stuttgart:
Solow's 1956 Contribution in the Context of Early Growth Models
Robert W. Dimand, Brock University and Barbara Spencer,
University of British Columbia:
Trevor Swan and the Neoclassical Growth Model
Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin:
The Rise and Fall of Cross-Country Regressions
DISCUSSANTS:
Robert W. Dimand, Brock University; Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin;
Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University; Harald Hagemann, Universitat
Hohenheim-Stuttgart
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Evelyn L. Forget
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