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European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) 1999 
Conference 
4-7 November 
Prague, Czech Republic 
 
Institutional History of Economics Research Area 
 
CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
 
EAEPE's Institutional History of Economics Research Area invites paper 
proposals that contribute to one of its following seven theoretical 
perspectives: 
 
(1) The approach to analysis is based on an evaluation of relevant 
tendencies and linkages in actual economics - instead of a methodology 
that sanctifies fictions and diverts attention from the difficult task 
of analyzing the practice and culture of economics. 
 
(2) The analysis is open-ended and interdisciplinary in that it draws upon 
relevant material in psychology, anthropology, politics, and history - 
instead of a definition of history of economics in terms of a rigid 
method that is applied indiscriminately to a wide variety of economic 
approaches. 
 
(3) The conception of economics is of a cumulative and evolutionary process 
unfolding in historical time in which economists are faced with chronic 
information problems and radical uncertainty about the future - instead 
of approaches to theorizing that focus exclusively on the product of 
this process. 
 
(4) The concern is to address and encompass the interactive, social process 
through which economics is formed and changed - instead of a 
theoretical framework that takes economists and their interests as 
given. 
 
(5) It is appropriate to regard economics itself as a social institution, 
necessarily supported by a network of other social institutions - 
instead of an orientation that takes economics itself as an ideal or 
natural order and as a mere aggregation of individual economists. 
 
(6) It is evaluated how the socio-economic system is embedded in a complex 
ecological and environmental system - instead of a widespread tendency 
to ignore ecological and environmental considerations or consequences 
in the history of economics. 
 
(7) The inquiry seeks to contribute not only to history of economics but 
also to economics - instead of an orthodox outlook that ignores the 
possibility of such cross-fertilization. 
 
Preference will be given to original accounts, based on detailed archival 
or other research, aimed at yielding rich, sophisticated, understandings. 
Papers that "do it" instead of those that "talk about doing it" are 
favored. 
 
To participate, please submit a proposal containing 400-600 words and 
indicating clearly the sense in which the paper contributes to one of the 
theoretical perspectives of the research area. 
 
The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 31 MARCH 1999. Notice 
of acceptance or rejection will be sent on or before 30 APRIL 1999. 
Completed papers are due on 31 AUGUST 1999. 
 
All proposals and requests for information should be sent to: 
 
Esther-Mirjam Sent 
CPNSS 
London School of Economics 
Houghton Street 
London WC2A 2AE 
UK 
 
Tel: +44-171-955 6827 
Fax: +44-171-955 6869 
 
E-mail: [log in to unmask] 
Web-site: http://www.nd.edu/~esent 
 
 
Further information on the EAEPE 1999 conference can be found at: 
http://eaepe.tuwien.ac.at/conference.html 
 
Further information on the research area is at: 
http://www.eh.net/ehnet/Archives/hes/nov-98/0011.html 
 
The research area is also organizing a workshop on "Economists at War: The 
Influence of the Practice of World War II and the Cold War on the Culture 
of Economics" at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands on 21 April 
1999. Further information on this workshop is available at: 
http://www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/warkshop.html 
 
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