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CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
The 6th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of 
Economic Thought (ESHET) will be held at the University of Crete, in 
Rethymno, between the 14th and the 17th of March 2002. 
 
It will begin with a lecture and a reception in the evening of 14 March 
2002 and will end after lunch on 17 March 2002. The conference will have 
both a thematic part and an open part. The theme will be: 
  
The definition and causes of the wealth of nations are at the heart of the 
origin of history of economic ideas.  The search for the causes of the 
rise, and sometimes fall, of nations has been a key issue of eighteenth 
century economics and has inspired modern growth theories.  Capital 
accumulation and investment and more recently human and social capital, 
R&D, externalities and increasing returns are some of the recurring issues 
in modern development theory.  
 
Development economics has largely evolved from pure growth models to a 
wider analysis of social change.  Nowadays the analysis of the evolution of 
societies and of their rise and decline include problems like population, 
democracy, freedom, governance, location, which link up with other social 
sciences: demography, geography, political science. 
 
History of economic thought has been largely instrumental in producing some 
of these changes.  The evolution in the reading of Smith since the mid 
nineteenth-sixties and the many episodes, from Malthus to Marx, from the 
Austrian school to Schumpeter and the neo-keynesian theories of growth, 
testify of the constant attention of the economists to the problem of 
development as a wide ranging social phenomenon. 
 
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The thematic part will include invited lectures.  
 
Scholars who would like to attend and give a paper are asked to send a 
proposal and an abstract of not more than 500 words and full details of 
their affiliation by 30 September 2001 using preferably email (or fax) to 
the following Conference Address: 
 
George Stathakis, 
Head of the Department 
Department of Economics 
University of Crete 
Rethymno, Crete,  
Greece 74100 
Tel: +30 831 77407 
Mob. Phone: 0944764646 
Fax: +30 831 77406 
e-mail: [log in to unmask]  
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A scientific committee will screen the proposals.  Notice of acceptance 
will be sent by 31 October 2001. The deadline for the submission of papers 
is 15 January 2002. 
 
The abstracts, as revised by 15 January 2002, will be included in a booklet 
distributed to all participants. 
 
  
Scientific Committee: 
 
W. Eltis, C. Perotta, P.L. Porta (co-ord), B. Schefold, G. Stathakis, P. 
Steiner, G. Vaggi 
 
Local organizing committee:  
 
G. Stathakis, D. Mylonakis, C. Baloglou 
 
 
Scheduled parallel events of the conferences will include: 
 
1. Visits to Knossos and Eletherna (under Guidance of professor 
Stambolidis, Dept. of Archaeology). 
 
2. Tour in Rethymno and the surrounding villages. 
 
3. Cultural events. 
 
  
 
Information about the island of Crete and the University as well as details 
about the Conference can be found at the following internet address: 
http://www.soc.uoc.gr/eshet2002/tinfo.htm  
 
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