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The 1997 International Economics and Philosophy Society Conference will be 
held at Basser College, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 
on Friday and Saturday, September 26-27. 
 
THE 1997 IEPS CONFERENCE PROGRAM 
 
FRIDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 
 
8:45am John Touchie 
Does a Rational Agent Trust? An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Foundations 
of Trust, Rationality and Morality. 
 
9:30am Joe Mintoff 
Is Rational and Voluntary Constraint Possible? 
 
10:45am  Brian Weatherson 
The Dutch Bookie Goes to Market. 
 
11:15am Wenceslao J. Gonzales 
Prediction and Prescription in Economics: The Philosophical and 
Methodological Perspectives. 
 
1:30pm Julian Lamont 
A Critique of the Use of Welfare Theorems and Pareto Efficiency. 
 
2:15pm Gerald Gaus 
The Limits of Homo Economus. 
 
3:30pm Evan Jones 
The Marginal Relevance of Philosophy in Economics. 
 
4:15pm Kim Sawyer, C.Beed, H.Sankey & B.Ellis. 
Meta-Economic Principles. 
 
7pm Conference Dinner 
 
        SATURDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 
 
8:45am Ian Hunt 
The Limits of Economic Theory in Public Policy: The Case of University 
Funding. 
 
9:15am Andrew Alexander and Adrian Walsh 
Goods and Commodities. 
 
9:45am Paula Casal. 
Free-riding and Procreation. 
 
10:45am Andrew Williams 
In Tax We Trust. 
 
11:15am Adrian Walsh 
Expressive Analysis and the Range of Commodity Exchange. 
 
1:30pm  Athol Fitzgibbons 
Reconstruction and Recantation: Is there a J.M. Keynes Problem? 
 
2:15pm Craig Freedman 
The Invisible Mr Keynes - Empirical Versus Theoretical Arguments. 
 
2:30pm James E. Alvey 
Adam Smith's Vision of the Best Regime. 
 
3.45pm Geoffrey Fishburn 
'Natura Non Facit Saltum' in Charles Darwin and Alfred Marshall. 
 
4:15pm Paul Flatau 
The Role of Ethical Norms and the Religious Beliefs in Wicksteed's 
Distribution Theory. 
 
4:45pm Donald Boland 
Economics and Aristotle's Division of the Sciences. 
 
 
Information about the conference, abstracts and any changes to this 
conference program will be posted on the IEPS Conference WWW page at: 
 
http://www.qut.edu.au/arts/human/ethics/ieps/conference.htm 
 
CONTACTS 
George Argyrous PH. (02)  9385 3483 
Julian Lamont   PH.  (07) 3864 4517 
 
The Registration Fee is $90 
Students/Unemployed Registration Fee is $55 
One day registration is available for $55 
 
To register, please print out this page and return with cheque made 
payable to International Economics and Philosophy Society to: 
 
Julian Lamont 
Centre for the Study of Ethics 
Queensland University of Technology 
Carseldine QLD 4034 
AUSTRALIA 
 
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