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[Folks---- Note that the paper is available from the author, Mark Tomass 
<[log in to unmask]>, not from me.  ----Paul Wendt, Coordinator ] 
 
 
==== Kress Notice, latemarch'97 
 
We meet again next Thursday evening, 3 April, 7:40-10 pm, in Littauer M16 
on the Harvard campus.  We feature a paper with two discussants: 
 
    Mark Tomass (Babson C) 
        The Relativist Fallacy of the Impossibility of Value-Neutral 
        Political Economy:  A Case Study ofthe Causes and Consequences of 
        Self-Regulating Markets 
 
    Discussants: Yngve Ramstad (U of Rhode Island) 
                 Joshua Cohen (U Amsterdam & Harvard U) 
 
    Paper available from the author: e-mail <[log in to unmask]> 
 
MARK TOMASS (Babson College) is a regular participant again this year 
after two years teaching at Masarykova University, Brno, Czech Republic. 
        Some of you may recall earlier work in which Mark discussed the 
"Fallacy of Incommensurability" via a case study of the monetary theories 
of Marx and Marshall.  Here again, he discusses the big methodological 
question indirectly, via the historical example.  Here the case study 
features Friedrich Hayek and Karl Polanyi on the development of markets, 
especially their maybe-self regulation and maybe-good consequences. 
 
YNGVE RAMSTAD (U of Rhode Island), recently coordinator of this seminar 
for several years, knows Institutional Economics intimately; he is the 
leading expert on John R. Commons.  No doubt he has witnessed a few 
engagements between followers of Hayek and Polanyi. 
 
JOSHUA COHEN (visitor, History of Science, Harvard) recently completed a 
PhD at Amsterdam on the history of utility and welfare theory and their 
applications to the assessment of individual health and health care. 
 
Dinner 
    Anyone interested in dinner and conversation before the seminar is 
    invited to gather at the Singha House Thai restaurant (1105 Mass. Ave) 
    at 6:00.  The food is great, matched only by the company.  The Singha 
    House is prepared to handle late additions to a party (to about 6:30 
    for dinner or 7:00 for appetizer or drink, given our time constraint). 
 
I hope to see you Thursday, 
 
                               P/\/\/\/t  [imagine my signature] 
 
 
----Paul 
 
Paul Wendt, Watertown MA 
Coordinator, Kress Seminar in the History of Economic Thought 
 
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