=================== HES POSTING ===================== 
 
Economists at War: 
The Influence of the Practice of World War II and the Cold War on the 
Culture of Economics. 
 
Conference organized by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and 
Economics in collaboration with the Institutional History of Economics 
Research Area of the European Association for Evolutionary Political 
Economy. 
 
Provisional Programme 
 
Wednesday, April 21, 1999 
 
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics 
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 
 
8:30- 9:00      Reception 
 
9:00- 9:45      Andrew Pickering, University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign-- 
World War II as a Discontinuity in the Social and Cyborg Sciences 
 
9:45-10:30      Mary Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of 
Economics-- Ideology and Tool-Based Economics in the Post-War Years 
 
10:30-11:00     Break 
 
11:00-11:45     Albert Jolink, Erasmus University Rotterdam-- 
The Travelling Salesman Returns from the War: Tjalling Koopmans and 
Linear Programming 
 
11:45-12:30     Francisco Louca, Technical University of Lisbon-- 
Prometheus Tired of War: Econometricians' Debates on the Role of 
Planning and Economic Policies 
 
12:30-13:30     Lunch 
 
13:30-14:15     Esther-Mirjam Sent, University of Notre Dame-- 
Military/Artificial Intelligence: Military Science Policy and Herbert A. 
Simon 
 
14:15-15:30     Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College-- 
Gun Laying and Economic Policy: Post War Applications to the Theory 
of Error-Actuated Automatic Control Systems 
 
15:30-16:00     Break 
 
16:00-16:45     Robert Leonard, University of Quebec at Montreal-- 
Controlling Bodies, Freeing Minds: John Williams, Architect of RAND 
Research 
 
16:45-17:30     Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame-- 
RAND/OR: How Operations Research Put the Rigor in the Mortis 
 
17:30-18:00     Concluding discussion 
 
19:00           Dinner 
 
Registration costs: DFL 100 or EURO 45 (registration + lunch), DFL 200 or 
EURO 90 (registration + lunch + dinner), DFL 35 or EURO 15 (student 
registration + lunch), DFL 135 or EURO 60 (student registration + lunch + 
dinner). 
 
Please send a message to Loes van Dijk at <[log in to unmask]> to 
receive a registration form. She can also be reached by phone at 
+31-10-4088967 and via fax at +31-10-4088979. 
 
Further updates will be posted at: 
http://www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/warkshop.html. 
============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ 
For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]