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The fourth European Conference on the History of Economics (ECHE 98)
will be held at the University of Antwerp (UFSIA) in Belgium, from
23 to 25 April 1998. Previous ECHEs have been held in Rotterdam
(1995), Lisbon (1996) and Athens (1997).
The theme of this year's conference is:
"Exchange at the boundaries: crossing borders in the history of
economics".
Below you will find the programme of ECHE 98. The programme, the
registration form and other information on ECHE 98 is also available
on the internet:
http://www.ufsia.ac.be/SESO/Eche-info.html
The web-pages will be updated regularly.
The organizing committee consists of Jose Luis Cardoso (Lisbon),
Philippe Fontaine (Paris), Albert Jolink (Rotterdam), Robert Leonard
(Montreal), Michalis Psalidopoulos (Athens), and Guido Erreygers
(Antwerp). Requests for further information can be addressed to the
local organizer.
ECHE 98
UFSIA, Antwerp, 23-25 April 1998
"Exchange at the Boundaries:
Crossing Borders in the History of Economics"
Tentative programme
Thursday 23 April 1998
16.00-18.00: Registration
20.00: Welcome Dinner
Friday 24 April 1998
8.30: Welcome
8.45-10.00: Invited Lecture:
Bruna INGRAO (Universita di Roma `La Sapienza')
"Economic life in 19th century novels. What economists might learn
from literature"
10.00-10.30: Coffee Break
10.30-12.30: Session 1
Parallel session 1A: The German Historical School
Peter ROSNER (Vienna University)
"Economics and history - the German alliance"
Antonio ALMODOVAR, Fatima BRANDAO and Rui Pedro ESTEVES (Faculdade
de Economia do Porto)
"The truth is out there: the economics of Gustav von Schmoller"
Parallel session 1B: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Mauro BOIANOVSKY (Universidade de Brasilia)
"Economists as demographers: Wicksell and Pareto on population"
Timo TAMMI (University of Joensuu, Finland)
"The 'Bernoulli-choice experiment' and the early separation of
experimental economics from experimental psychology"
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: Session 2
Parallel session 2A: Institutional Economics
Alan W. DYER (Northeastern University)
"The estrangement of economics: Thorstein Veblen and the struggle
for intellectual intimacy"
Olav VELTHUIS (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
"Sociological arguments in economic sociology and old institutional
economics"
Parallel session 2B: Economic Imperialism
Jack VROMEN (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
"Game theory as the apex of economic imperialism?"
Philippe FONTAINE (Ecole normale superieure de Cachan)
"Trouble in paradise: altruism in economics and the other social
sciences, 1968-1998"
16.00-16.30: Coffee Break
16.30-18.30: Session 3
Parallel session 3A: Herbert Alexander Simon
Esther-Mirjam SENT (University of Notre Dame)
"A Simon who is not at all simple"
Victor VIEIRA DA SILVA (Centre Auguste et Leon Walras, Lyon)
"Organizations as imperfectly adapted organisms: the Simonian
organization theory revisited"
Parallel session 3B: Economics and Christianity
A.M.C. WATERMAN (St. John's College, Winnipeg & Robinson College,
Cambridge)
"The beginning of 'boundaries': the sudden separation of economics
from Christian theology"
John CUNLIFFE (University of Central England) and Guido ERREYGERS
(University of Antwerp)
"From moral philosophy and law to economics: the formation of
Francois Huet's theory of property rights"
20.00: Conference Dinner
Saturday 25 April 1998
8.30-10.00: Ph.D. Students Session
Flavio V. COMIM (St. Edmund's College, Cambridge)
"Jevons and Wicksteed: crossing borders in the history of economics"
Silke R. STAHL (Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic
Systems, Jena)
"Historical economics in the history of economics. Implications for
a modern evolutionary theory"
David TEIRA SERRANO (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia,
Madrid)
"Knight and Friedman on knowledge and chance: a perspective from
pragmatism"
Pedro Nuno TEIXEIRA (University of Porto)
"The emergence of a new economic branch: the economics of education
(1960-1995)"
10.00-10.30: Coffee Break
10.30-12.30: Session 4
Parallel session 4A: William Stanley Jevons
Bert MOSSELMANS (Free University of Brussels)
"William Stanley Jevons and the extent of meaning in logic and
economics"
Harro MAAS (University of Amsterdam)
"Babbage, Jevons and the machinery of the mind"
Parallel session 4B: Otto Neurath
Robert LEONARD (University of Quebec at Montreal)
"Modern man in the making: the art, philosophy and political economy
of Otto Neurath"
Albert JOLINK (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
"Dissolving borders: Tinbergen and the unified sciences"
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: Session 5
Parallel session 5A: Engineers, Entropy and Economics
Salim RASHID (University of Illinois)
"Engineering and economics: similarities and contrasts"
Claudia ROTONDI (Universita Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milano)
"Competition and economic temperature: the entropy law in Emanuele
Sella's work"
Parallel session 5B: Individual Exchanges
Ted GAYER (Georgetown University) and Roy WEINTRAUB (Duke
University)
"Negotiating at the boundary: Patinkin versus Phipps"
Rainer KLUMP (University of Ulm)
"On the phenomenological roots of German 'Ordnungstheorie': what
Eucken owes to Husserl"
16.00-16.30: Coffee Break
16.30-18.30: Session 6
Parallel session 6A: Theories of Cycles and Waves
Francisco LOUCA (Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa)
"Swinging all the way: pendula in the history of economics"
Natalia MAKASHEVA (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
"Unknown Kondratiev: probabilistic-statistical approach to
economics"
Parallel session 6B: National Traditions in Economics
Terence McDONOUGH (National University of Ireland - Galway) and
Eamonn SLATER (National University of Ireland - Maynooth)
"New furrows in Irish 19th century economics"
Arnold WILTS (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Koeln)
"Disciplinary developments in Dutch economics (1930-1960) and the
emergence of the Dutch welfare state"
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