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Summer Institute for the Preservation of the   
Study of the History of Economics in Economics 
 
Monday – July 14, 2003 
 
Why Ethical Codes in Statistics but not Econometrics? 
 
8:30a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 
 
10a David Levy,  GMU (Economics & Buchanan Center)  
“Why Would Truth Seekers Need Ethics?” 
 
11a Ali Khan, Johns Hopkins (Economics) 
“The Ethics of (Economic) Theorizing” 
 
12:30p  Lunch – Pizza 
 
1:30p Martin  Zelder,  University of Chicago (Emergency Medicine) 
“Penalizing Cons in Econometrics” 
 
3:00p Dan Houser,  GMU (Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science) 
Comments: Informal Ethical Codes in Experimental Economics  
 
3:30p Deirdre McCloskey,  University of Illinois, Chicago (Human Sciences)  
Tinbergen Distinguished Professor, Erasmusuniversiteit, Rotterdam 
“The Secret History of Statistical Significance”  
 
 
5p Buchanan House Showings 
 
 
Tuesday – July 15, 2003 
 
Proverbs 
 
8:00a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 
 
9a James Buchanan GMU (Economics & Buchanan Center)  
“Influences on My Work” 
 
10:30a Deirdre McCloskey University of Illinois, Chicago (Human Sciences) 
Tinbergen Distinguished Professor, Erasmusuniversiteit, Rotterdam 
“Bourgeois Virtue: Doing Well by Doing Good””  
 
Noon  Lunch 
 
1:00p Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace (Economics) 
“Proverbs and Classical Economics” 
 
2:30p Bridget Butkevich, GMU(Economics & ICES) 
“Proverbial Behavior as ‘Anomalous’” 
 
3:30p Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, GMU (Economics)  
“Bentham’s Constitution as Starting Point”  
 
5p Buchanan House Showings 
 
7p Dinner Discussion of Teaching History of Economics  
 
Wednesday – July 16, 2003 
 
Scarcity as a Moral Problem 
 
8:00a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 
 
9a Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace (Economics) 
“Ending Scarcity by Making Better Humans” 
 
10:30a Ed McPhail, Dickinson (Economics) 
“‘Original Sin’ as Acceptance of Scarcity”  
 
Noon  Lunch 
 
1p Buchanan House Tour 
 
2:30p Tim Leonard, Princeton (Economics) 
“Raising Wages by Thinning the Herd” 
 
4p Tyler Cowen GMU (Economics) 
“Scarcity in the Novel” 
 
Thursday – July 17, 2003 
  
Sympathy 
 
8:00a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 
 
9a James Buchanan, GMU (Economics) 
“Status of the Status Quo” 
 
10:30a Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace (Economics) 
“Sympathy and Its Discontents”  
 
Noon  Lunch 
 
1p Leon Montes, U. Adolfo Ibañez (School of Business) 
“Virtue in Adam Smith” 
 
2:30p Tim Leonard, Princeton (Economics) 
“Darwinian Midwives in Economics at the Birth of the Welfare State” 
 
4p Gordon Tullock GMU (Economics) 
“Sympathy in Biology” 
  
Buchanan House Showings 
 
Friday – July 18, 2003 
 
Great Problems in Economics 
 
8:00a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 
 
9a Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva (Economics) 
“Hume on Endogenous Money” 
 
10:30a Eric Crampton, GMU (Economics) 
Andrew Farrant, Liberty Fund (Visiting Fellow) 
“Planning and Robustness”  
 
Noon  Lunch 
 
1p Gordon Brady, Ottawa (Economics) 
“Duncan Black & the Italian Tradition of Public Finance” 
 
2:30p David Levy, GMU (Economics & Buchanan Center) 
“Donut & Bagel Consumption with Sympathetic Agents” 
 
 
 
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Carow Hall, George Mason University 
Fairfax VA 22030 
 
 
David M Levy 
George Mason University 
 
 
 
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