Below is the Center for the History of Political 
Economy Workshop Schedule for Fall 2009. 
Workshops are held on select Fridays in Room 327 
of the Social Sciences Building, Duke University, 
and begin at 3:30 p.m. The schedule so far is as follows:

September 4 ­ Avner Offer, All Souls College, 
University of Oxford ­ “The Economy of Obligation 
­ Contract Ambiguity and the Welfare State” (This 
workshop is co-sponsored by the Duke Economic History group.)

September 18 ­ Kevin Hoover, Duke University ­ “Microfoundational Programs”

October 9 ­ D. Wade Hands, University of Puget 
Sound ­ “The Rise and Fall of Walrasian Economics: The Keynes Effect”

October 16 ­ Béatrice Cherrier ­ Ecole normale 
supérieure de Cachan ­ “Building Economists’ 
Identity: The ‘Economics and the Behavioral 
Science’ Survey of the Ford Foundation, 1952”

November 6 ­ E. Roy Weintraub ­ Duke University ­ “Lionel McKenzie Redux”

November 20 ­ Jeremy Shearmur ­ Australian 
National University ­ “Further Thoughts on Hayek’s Abuse of Reason Project”

December 4 - Maria Pia Paganelli ­ Yeshiva 
University ­ “The Same Face of the Two Smiths: Adam Smith and Vernon Smith”


Bruce Caldwell