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[NOTE: The following program was arranged by HES Vice-President Roger 
Backhouse. -- RBE] 
 
History of Economics Society 
Session Program -- 1998 ASSA Meetings 
 
3-5 January 1998, Chicago 
 
Session 1 -- On the road again: the influence of travel and travel writing 
on classical political economy (B1) 
 
Presiding -- Deirdre McCloskey (University of Iowa) 
 
Brian Cooper (New School for Social Research) -- Instructions for 
Travellers: Making Economics Fit the World and Making the World Fit 
Economics 
Robert W. Dimand (Brock University) -- Classical Political Economy and 
Orientalism: Nassau Senior's Eastern Tour 
Ulla Grappard (Colgate University) -- Lady Bountiful: Gender and 
Representation in International Trade 
Discussants -- Deirdre McCloskey (University of Iowa), Janet Seiz 
(Grinnell College), James Henderson (Valparaiso) University 
 
Session 2 -- Taxation, Rationality and Group Rationality (B2) 
 
Presiding -- Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham, UK) 
 
Larry Moss (Babson College) -- The Advent of Mathematical Economics in 
the United States: The Case of the Edgeworth-Seligman Debate about the 
Incidence of Taxes 
Mary Ann Martinsek Dimand (Albion College) -- Coase and Lindahl: Markets 
and exchange 
Esther Mirjam Sent, (University of Notre Dame)-- Bounded Rationality on 
the Rebound 
Discussants -- To be confirmed. 
 
Session 3 -- Wesley Clair Mitchell after 50 Years (Round Table Discussion) 
(B2) 
 
Presiding -- Scott Simkins (North Carolina A&T State University) 
 
Moses Abramovitz (Stanford University) -- Reflections on Mitchell 
Jeff Biddle (Michigan State University) -- Wesley C. Mitchell as 
Statistician 
Eli Ginzberg (Columbia University) -- Mitchell: A 50 Year Retrospective 
Mark Perlman (University of Pittsburg) -- Mitchell, Keynes and Schumpeter 
Compared: Their Assumptions, Their Methods, and the Founding of Schools 
Scott Simkins (North Carolina A&T State University) -- Mitchell, 
Measurement and Theory 
 
Session 4 -- Wicksell's Influence on Modern Economic Theory: In Honor of 
the 100th Anniversary of Interest and Prices (B1) 
 
Presiding -- Michael J. Gootzeit (University of Memphis) 
 
Michael J. Gootzeit (University of Memphis) -- Wicksell and the 
Sophisticated Quantity Theory 
Thomas Humphrey (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) -- Fisher and Wicksell: 
Different Interpretations of the Quantity Theory 
Mauro Boianovsky (Universidade de Brasilia) -- Lord Keynes and the 
Swedes: the Wicksell Connection Revisited 
James Ahiakpor (California State University at Hayward) -- Wicksell's 
Theories of Credit, Interest, Money and Inflation: Consistency with or 
Deviation from the Classics? 
Discussants -- To be confirmed. 
 
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