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Tue Aug 26 15:44:45 2008
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The History of Economics Society will have 4 sessions at the 2009 AEA  
meetings in San Francisco (January 3-5). Registration opens 4  
September. More information is available on the website:  
<http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/index.htm>

Times and places have now been assigned for our sessions:


SESSION 1:       January 3: 12:30; Hilton/ Union Square 24

TITLE: 	        The Role of Oral History in the Study of Economics
CHAIR:	        Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva University

Craig Freedman, Macquarie University (AU):
South Side Blues: An Oral History of the Chicago School

Tiago Mata, University of Amsterdam:
Not biography: How to make the most of oral history of elites

John Lodewijks, University of Western Sydney:
Economists from the Antipodes: What can oral history tell us?

DISCUSSANTS:
Steven Medema, University of Colorado at Denver
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
Paul Oslington, University of Notre Dame (Australia)


SESSION 2: 	January 3:  2:30; Hilton/ Union Square 24

TITLE:		Theory of Moral Sentiments After 250 Years
CHAIR: 	         Sandra Peart, University of Richmond

Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois
Adam Smith Shows Bourgeois Theory at Its Amiable Best

Vernon Smith, Chapman University
The Wealth in Adam Smith's First and Last Book

Sandra Peart, University of Richmond and David Levy, George Mason University
The Loss of Sympathy

DISCUSSANTS:
Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University
George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan Wight, University of Richmond



SESSION 3: 	January 4: 10:15; Hilton/ Union Square 13

TITLE:            The Real Debate of the 1950's: Marshallian versus  
General Equilibrium Approaches
CHAIR:	         E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University

H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University
Applied welfare economics at mid-century

Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam
Looking under the hood: Leontief versus statistical econometricians

Eric Schliesser, Leiden University and University of Amsterdam
Monopoly and Methodology at 'Chicago': Nutter and Stigler

DISCUSSANTS:
Vernon Smith, Chapman University
Kevin Hoover, Duke University
M. June Flanders, Tel Aviv University


SESSION 4: 	January 4: 2:30; Hilton/ Union Square 18

TITLE: 	         Growth Theory in Historical Perspective
CHAIR:	         Robert W. Dimand, Brock University

Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University:
Was Harrod Right?

Harald Hagemann, Universitat Hohenheim-Stuttgart:
Solow's 1956 Contribution in the Context of Early Growth Models

Robert W. Dimand, Brock University  and Barbara Spencer,
University of British Columbia:
Trevor Swan and the Neoclassical Growth Model

Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin:
The Rise and Fall of Cross-Country Regressions

DISCUSSANTS:
Robert W. Dimand, Brock University
Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin
Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University
Harald Hagemann, Universitat Hohenheim-Stuttgart



Evelyn L. Forget





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