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HES Sponsored Sessions at the ASSA, January 3-5th, 2004, San Diego 
 
 
Session 1:  Improving the Race: Darwinism and Economics a Century Ago  
Time: Saturday 3rd January, 10.15 to 12.15  
Place: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott 
 
Presiding: Larry Moss (Babson College) 
Session Organiser: Sandra Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College) 
 
Sandra J. Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College and David M. Levy, George Mason University:
"Eugenics and Neo-Classical Concern over 'Capacity for Pleasure': From Cardinal to Ordinal
Utility Theory"
 
Robert W. Dimand, Brock University: "Fisher, Rae, Senior and the Shadow of "the Other":
Eugenics and Racial Differences in Capital Theory"
 
Tim Leonard, Princeton University: "Darwinian Influences on American Economics at the
Birth of the Welfare State"
 
Annie Cot, Université of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne: "Irving Fisher and the 'science of
heredity'"
 
Discussants: 
Jack Hirshleifer, University of California, Los Angeles 
Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria 
 
 
 
Session 2: Re-Making the Boundaries of Economics in the 20th Century  
Time: Saturday 3rd January, 2.30 to 4.30  
Place: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott 
 
Presiding:  Aiko Ikeo, Waseda University  
Session Organiser: Mary Morgan, London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam 
 
Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia and Hans-Michael Trautwein, Oldenburg
University: "Haberler, the League of Nations and the quest for a consensus in business
cycle theory in the 1930s"
 
Bruce Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro: "Hayek and the Sensory Order" 
 
Pedro Teixeira, University of Exeter: "The uman Capital Revolution in Economic Thought" 
 
Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College: "Constructing duality: How applied mathematics became a
science of economizing in the late 1940s and early 1950s"
 
Discussants: 
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University 
Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam 
 
 
 
Session 3: Lost Dimensions in Modern Micro-Macro Theory 
Time: Sunday 4th January, 8.00 to 10.00  
Place: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott 
         
Presiding:  John Henry, California State University Session Organiser: Ingrid Rima, Temple
University
 
Matthew Forstater, University of Missouri at Kansas City: "Unemployment in Economic Theory
and Reality: The Current Debate in the Light of the History of Economic Thought"
 
Gary Mongiovi, St John's University: "The Capital Controversy in Historical Perspective" 
 
Ingrid Rima, Temple University: "Increasing Returns and New Growth Theory: A Case of
Historical Paradigmatic Incompatibility"
 
Harald Hagemann, Universitat Hohenheim: "Has Growth Theory Obliterated Business Cycle
Theory?"
 
Discussants: 
John Smithin, York University 
Stanley Bober, Duquesne University 
Stephan Seiter, Universitat Hohenheim 
Stephanie Bell, University of Missouri at Kansas City 
 
 
 
Session 4: IS/LM: Past, Present and Future  
Time: Sunday 4th January, 10.15 to 12.15  
Place: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott 
 
Presiding:  Kevin D. Hoover, UCLA, Davis 
 
Robert W. Dimand, Brock University: "James Tobin and the Transformation of the IS-LLM
Model"
 
Warren Young, Bar-llan University and William Darity, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill: "IS-LM-BP: An Inquest"
 
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University and Anna Schwartz, NBER: "IS-LM and Monetarism" 
 
David Colander, Middlebury College: "The Strange Persistence of the IS-LM Model" 
 
 
 
Mary Morgan 
London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam 
 
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