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European Conferences on the History of Economics 
 
Changing Instruments in Economics 
 
April 20-22, 2000 
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics 
Erasmus University 
Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
 
 
Program 
 
Keynote lecture:  Harry Collins: Economics as a Science. 
 
Session: Mind your game 
Nicola Giocoli: Fixing the point: von Neumann, Nash and the new  
gametheoretic tools for mathematical economics 
Peter Rosner: Severing economics from psychology: modern utility  
theory and the Vienna Circle - the quest for an empirical science 
 
Session: Fine-spinning Instruments 
 
Harro Maas: Instruments of precision 
Emeric Lendjel: The statistical origin of the cobweb diagram 
 
Session: Emerging Techniques 
 
Philippe Steiner: French Political Economy and its Techniques: a  
Study of the Revue Economique (1950-1980) 
Hsiang-Ke Chao: Milton Friedman and the Emergence of the Permanent  
Income Hypothesis 
 
Session: States of Normality 
 
Sybilla Nikolow: Balancing the strength of the states. German  
economic thinking around 1800 
Gnlbahar Tezel: Shifting Understandings of Normality: Marshall on Custums. 
 
Session :Indexfingers and rules of thumb 
 
Arianne Dupont-Kieffer: How Ragnar Frisch approached the theory of  
value with index numbers 
Helen Roberts: Laspeyers and his index 
 
 
For information and registration: 
 
www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/eche.html  
 
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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. 
 
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