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From: Dr. Thierry AIMAR, CREDES, Univ Nancy II Dr. David W Versailles, PHARE-EH (CHPE), Univ Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne 
 
We intend to organize a session at the HES 2000 meeting in  
Vancouver next June 20th-July3rd on the theme:   
 
The Austrians and the use of psychological assumptions in economics 
 
Carl Menger's economic theory in the Grundsaetze is often  
described as a psychological investigation into the individual  
behavior. The status of the psychological assumptions cannot be  
explained without reference to Menger's methodological  
developments: his opposition to historism is based upon his  
refutation of any amplification of historical description of tendencies  
into nomologic assumptions. All the followers of Carl Menger in the  
Austrian School of economics are referring to the Methodenstreit;  
all Austrians do adhere to Menger's utility theory and to his  
"psychological" commitment.   
 
The session intends to draw the general lines of the introduction of  
"psychological" assumptions into economics by the Austrians, and  
to point out the differences between the members of the Austrian  
School.   
 
If you are interested, thanks for contacting us as soon as possible at the 
email 
 
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or via fax : +33-491 63 06 42 
 
There are two different ways to organize the session: a thematical  
one and an historical one. We will adapt the presentation of the  
session to the propositions received. We will present a paper about  
Carl Menger's insights in psychology and their reception.   
 
Thanks for sending your proposition (with your title, a 200 words  
abstract, your affiliation and personal email) at the email below by  
Feb 14th. Deadline for the session proposal to the HES organizers  
is Feb 15th. We will reply as soon as possible and get in touch  
individually to adjust the general layout of the session.   
 
Depending on the number of the propositions received by the  
deadline, we will set up a session and transmit it to the HES  
organizers directly. A large session with up to 8 papers seems  
possible provided that we cut it in two sub-sessions.   
 
For any information, email of fax David W Versailles at 
 
mailto:[log in to unmask] 
fax: +33-491 63 06 42 
 
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