The History of Economics Society is sponsoring the following sessions at the 2008 ASSA meetings in New Orleans.  
Jan. 4, 10:15 am
HES/AFA

What Was/Is Financial Economics? (B2)
 
Presiding: STEPHEN BUSER, Ohio State University

GEOFFREY POITRAS, Simon Fraser University, and FRANCK JOVANOVIC, University of Quebec-Montreal--Pioneers of Financial Economics

HICHEM BEN-EL-MECHAIEKH and ROBERT DIMAND, Brock University--Louis Bachelier's 1938 Volume on the Calculus of Speculation: Efficient Markets and Mathematical Finance in Bachelier's Later Work

PETER BERNSTEIN, Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.--In the Thick of This World: The True Story of Modern Finance

PERRY MEHRLING, Barnard College, Columbia University--The Spirit of Finance and the Development of Macroeconomics
 
 
Jan. 4, 12:30 pm
HES

Keeping the Faith: The Continuing Engagement of Economics with Religion (B1)
 
Presiding: SPENCER BANZHAF, Georgia State University

STEPHEN MEARDON, Bowling Green State University--Whence Commerce Followed the Missionary: Religions Origins of Doctrines of U.S. Trade and Expansion

HARRO MAAS, Amsterdam School of Economics--A Hard Battle to Fight: The Dismal Science in Cambridge 1820-1850

DANIELA PARISI, Catholic University of Milan--Economics to the Service of Humankind: The Political Economy of Francesco Vito

Discussants: BRAD BATEMAN, Grinnell College
PAUL OSLINGTON, University of New South Wales
SPENCER BANZHAF, Georgia State University


Jan. 5, 10:15 am
HES/AFEE

Thorstein Veblen at 150: Rethinking a Survivor (B1)

Presiding: ANNE MAYHEW, University of Tennessee

MATTHEW WILSON, University of Denver--Veblen on Veblen: Social Critic, Evolutionary Scientist, or Both?

ROBERT PRASCH, Middlebury College--Thorstein Veblen's Theory of Consumption

ERIC HAKE, Eastern Illinois University--Thorstein Veblen's Theory of Business Enterprise, Business Cycles, and Industrial Organization

Discussants: MALCOLM RUTHERFORD, University of British Columbia
JANET KNOEDLER, Bucknell University


Jan. 5, 2:30 pm
HES
 
Rawls and the Economists (B3)
 
Presiding: SANDRA PEART, University of Richmond

SANDRA PEART, University of Richmond, and DAVID LEVY, George Mason University--The Buchanan-Rawls Correspondence

JOHN DAVIS, Marquette University and University of Amsterdam--Rawls and Sen on Deliberative Democracy

JOE PERSKY, University of Illinois-Chicago--Rawls' Thin Defense of Property

Discussants: STEVEN DURLAUF, University of Wisconsin
DAVID COLANDER, Middlebury College


Perry Mehrling