Dear All,
   Please find below the programme for the 12th annual European Conference on
   the History of Economics, to be held at the Certosa di Pontignano, Siena
   (Italy), on 4-6 October.
   For more details see: http://www.econ-pol.unisi.   Sincerely yours,

   Carlo Zappia



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   Thursday, 4 October

   7.00 pm Registrati
   8.00 pm Welcome Dinner

   Friday, 5 October

   9.00 am Welcome

   9.15 am Opening Lecture
   Hilbert and the Axiomatic Approach: Its Background and Development?   Leo Corry (Tel-Aviv University)

   10.15 am Coffee/tea break

   10.45 am
   Gerard Debreu: from Nicolas Bourbaki to Adam Smith. A phenomenology of
   becoming an economist
   Till Duppe (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
   Discussant: Bruna Ingrao (University of Rome, La Sapienza)

   11.45 am
   Schelling's non-axiomatics
   Alessandro Innocenti (University of Siena)
   Discussant: Philippe Fontaine (ENS Cachan)

   1.00 pm Lunch

   2.30 pm
   On Robert Remak's Superposed Price Systems: Before Axiomatization<   Harald Hageman (Univ. of Hohenheim) and Lionello F. Punzo (Univ. of Siena)
   Discussant: Ivan Moscati (Bocconi University, Milan)

   3.30 pm   Ragnar Frisch's Axiomatic Approach in Econometrics
   Olav Bjerkholt (University of Oslo) and Ariane Dupont (INRETS, Paris)
   Discussant: Lionello Punzo (Univers
   4.30 pm Coffee/tea break

   5.00 pm
   Dynamics  versus  axiomatisation:  the  case of the Italian Paretian
   Mario Pomini (University of Padua) and
   Gianfranco Tusset (University of Padua)
   Discussant: Massimo Di Matteo (University of Siena)

   8.00 pm Conference Dinner

   Saturday, 6 October

   9.15 am
   A  Pioneering  Argument for the Axiomatic Method Revealed in Whately?&#65533;&#65533;s
   Economics
   Chikakazu Tadakoshi (Yokohama City University)
   Discussant:    Jose   Luis   Cardoso   (Technical University of Lisbon)

   10.15 am
   Robbins's Essay and the axiomatisation of economics
   Roger Backhouse (Univ. of Birmingham) and Steve Medema (Univ. of Colorado at
   Denver)
   Discussant: Annalisa Rosselli (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)

   11.15 am Coffee/tea break

   11.45 am
   The  significance  of  modelling  in  Economics for the development of
   Mathematics: The minimax-, the duality-, and the Kuhn-Tucker theorem
   Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (Roskilde University)
   Discussant: Nicola Giocoli (University of Pisa)

   1.00 pm Lunch

   2.30 pm
   Axiomatization, Immunization, and Convention in Economics
   Arnis Vilks (Leipzig Graduate School of Management)
   Discussant: Marco Dardi (University
   4.30 pm Visit to Siena