Dear Colleagues, 
 
The preliminary schedule for this year's Summer Institute for the = 
History of Economic Thought is provided below.  Please note that = 
attendance is free and we encourage any and all of you who can attend to = 
do so.  We ask simply that you rsvp so that we can order food = 
accordingly.  Times for various events will be posted on our website, = 
http://www.centerforstudyofpublicchoice.com/, shortly.  Conference = 
events include continental breakfasts and lunch. 
 
Through the generosity of George Mason University and the History of = 
Economics Society, we are able to sponsor the participation of up to 6 = 
students this year.  Please encourage your students, who show promise = 
and interest in the History of Economics, to email [log in to unmask] to find = 
out more about these opportunities. 
 
Best wishes, 
 
Sandra Peart 
Director, 2005 Summer Institute 
 
May 30:  Labels, Language and Economics 
 
Jim Buchanan:  Egalitarianism a la Buchanan 
William Easterly:  Foreign Aid in the History of Thought 
Dave Colander:  Use of Labels in the History of Economic Thought 
Bradley Bateman:  What was Keynesianism:  Keynes and Keynesian Economic = 
Policy 
Erte Xiao and Dan Houser:  Emotion Expression in Human Punishment = 
Behavior 
 
Dinner & Discussion:  The Street Porter and the Philosopher:  = 
Conversations on Egalitarian Economics (essays from first 5 years of the = 
Summer Institute) 
 
May 31:  Open Problems in HET 
 
Ali Khan:  Keynes and Population 
Rebecca Jarmas:  Historic Doubts Relative to Richard Whately: Did the = 
Archbishop Believe in Miracles? 
Ed McPhail and Andrew Farrant:  Hayek's Road to Serfdom:  Was Samuelson = 
Right? 
Erik Angner:  The Origin of Hayek's Theory of Cultural Evolution = 
Revisited 
David Levy and Dave Colander:  Public Choice vs Socialism (a debate) 
 
June 1:  Utility, Sympathy and Self Interest 
 
Ali Khan:  Huxley on Ethics and Eugenics 
Paulo Tubaro:  A Utility Measure which is Not: Jules Dupuit's Consumer = 
Theory 
Elias Khalil: Smith vs. Darwin:  Can Fitness/Efficiency Account for = 
Existential Imperatives and Taboos? 
Maria Paganelli:  Self interest in Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral = 
Sentiments:  The Adam Smith Problem in Reverse 
David Levy and Sandra Peart:  The Simple Analytics of Sympathetic = 
Exchange 
 
June 2:  Chicago School Themes 
 
Spencer Banzhaf -- The Chicago School of Welfare Economics 
Eric Schliesser -- Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek:  Public = 
Intellectuals, Expertise and Democracy 
David Mitch -- Economic History and Chicago 
Pedro Teixeira -- Human Capital Theory at UC 
Dan Hammond:  Columbia Roots of the Chicago School/More Fiber than = 
Thread? Evidence on the Mirowski-Hands Yarn 
 
June 3: Progress and Economics 
 
Masazumi Wakatabe -- Smith and Buchanan 
Leon Montes -- Did Adam Smith really share the cosmic determinism of the = 
Stoics? 
Craig Smith -- Adam Smith on Progress and Knowledge 
Sandra Peart and David Levy:  Happiness, Progress,and the "Theology of = 
Natural Selection'