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European Society for the History of Economic Thought 
In collaboration with University of Milano-Bicocca, University of Pavia 
 
International conference: 
Employment, Technology and Institutions in the Process of Structural 
Change. A History of Economic Thought Perspective 
Pavia/Milan,16-17 November 2001 
 
The conference is organised by ESHET jointly with the Department of 
Political Economy and Quantitative Methods of the University of Pavia and 
with the Department of Political Economy of the University of 
Milano-Bicocca. The program includes two sessions of half day each: the 
opening session will be in Pavia on 16 November 2001 and the final session 
in Milan the 17 November.  
 
The conference examines the way in which great economists of the past 
analyse some specific process of economic and social change. Structural 
change is a phenomenon that too often the modern economic theory neglects. 
This was not the case in past and above all for some great authors. The 
conference runs through some of the major topics and tries to focus on the 
implications for the methodology of economic science and its evolution.  
 
The conference will bring out some of the fundamental aspects of structural 
change, in particular on the role of technology and of institutions. 
Particular attention is devoted to money. Through the re-reading of some of 
the important contributions in the history of the economic thought; the 
conference highlights some of the analytical and methodological problems 
which might provide a better understanding of the real world.  
 
Participation of doctoral candidates is encouraged and in particular the 
conference will be attended by students from two doctoral programmes in 
Political Economy respectively based in Pavia and Milano-Bicocca.  
 
  
 
Provisional programme: 
Friday 16, 3 pm. Pavia  
 
Chair: Luigi Pasinetti (Catholic University of Milan)  
 
The first session includes research work on Smith and other classical 
authors such as Ricardo and other contributions on the Continent, This 
session examines in particular the role of technology and of trade policies 
in the process of structural change.  
 
Andrew Skinner (Glasgow): Adam Smith in a historical perspective  
Eric Streissler (Vienna): International Economic Exchange: Comparative 
Advantage in the WN and in Ricardo in relation to factor Movements  
Bertram Schefold (Frankfurt): Markets, morals and economic policy. German 
views from the time of the Reformation to Cameralism  
Philippe Steiner (Paris I): The Division of Labour, Knowledge and Growth in 
Say's Political Economy  
Saturday 17, 10. am Milan  
 
Chair: Andrew Skinner (University of Glasgow)  
 
The second session deals with the evolution of the monetary theory above 
all in the eighteenth century and the formation and of the role of the 
central banks, but it also highlights the importance of modern instruments 
for the understanding of long run social changes.  
 
Cristina Marcuzzo (Roma): J.M. Keynes and the quantity theory of money  
Walter Eltis (Oxford): Relevance of Wicksell to the World Economic Crisis 
of 2001.  
Christian Schmidt (Paris Dauphine): The Contribution of Game Theory to 
Economic Change and Social Evolution a History-of-Economic- Thought 
Perspective  
  
 
 
Discussants to be assigned. Participants will include Pascal Bridel 
(Lausanne), Salvador Almenar (Valencia), John Vint (Manchester 
Metropolitan), George Stathakis (Crete), Members of the two Italian 
Departments, Research students.  
 
Scientific Committee:  
 
Carluccio Bianchi(Pavia), Niccolò De Vecchi(Pavia), Giorgio 
Lunghini(Pavia), Graziella Marzi(Milan), Piergiovanna Natale(Milan), Pier 
Luigi Porta(Milan), Bertram Schefold(ESHET), Patrizio Tirelli(Milan), 
Gianni Vaggi(Pavia).  
 
 
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