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Please find below details of the 9th European Conference on the History of 
Economics (ECHE 2004): THE POLITICAL ELEMENT IN ECONOMIC INQUIRY 
 
A conference to be held at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, 25-27 
March 2004 
 
 
Provisional program 
 
  Friday, March 25 
 
Invited lecture: Kenneth Hoover, (Western Washington University, U.S.A.), 
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Oppositional Bind 
 
Odile Altay (PHARE, University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne and THEMA, 
University of Cergy-Pontoise, France), Nassau Senior’s distinction between 
Science and Art. 
 
Sophie Jallais (University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France), John 
Neville Keynes and the neutrality of economic science. 
 
Stephen Meardon (Bowdoin College, U.S.A.), Postbellum Protection and 
Commissioner Wells’s Conversion to Free Trade. 
 
Gilles Dostaler, (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada), Keynes’s 
politics : vision and  action. 
 
Arianne Dupont (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France), Frischian 
Econometrics: how to intertwine heuristic and political ambitions. 
 
 
 
Saturday, March 27 
 
Anna-Maria Bianchi, (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), Albert Hirschman 
in Latin America. 
 
Guido Erreygers (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and Giovanni Di Bartolomeo 
(University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy), Eugenio Rignano’s Inheritance Tax 
Proposal. 
 
Steve Medema, (University of Colorado at Denver, USA), Explicit and 
implicit politics in the history of the theory of economic policy. 
 
Fabienne Peter (Universty of Basel, Switzerland), Aggregative Democracy and 
the Concept of Legitimacy: The Challenge from Deliberative Democracy. 
 
Ozgu Gun and Martino Nieddu (University of Reims, France) The political 
reasons for the introduction of altruism hypothesis in contemporary 
economic theory. 
 
Philip Mirowski and S.-K. Lee (University of Notre-Dame, U.S.A.), Political 
dimensions of Vernon Smith’s experimental economics. 
 
 
There will also be a pre-conference (March 24) and a conference dinner 
(March 25). 
 
All enquiries and requests for registration forms (which must be submitted 
by 1st March 2003), should be sent to Alain Marciano 
([log in to unmask]). 
 
 
Alain Marciano 
Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne 
 
 
 
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