The Center for the History of Political Economy 
at Duke University has scheduled the following 
workshops and other events for the Spring 2009 
semester. Workshops are held on Friday afternoons 
from 3:30 to 5 in the Social Science Building, Room 327.

Jan. 9 ­ Joint Economic History/HOPE Workshop ­ 
Mahmoud El-Gamal, Rice University ­ “Islamic Financial Jurisprudence”

Jan. 16 ­ HOPE Workshop ­ Angus Burgin, Harvard 
University ­ “The Colloque Lippmann and the Origins of Neoliberalism”

Jan. 20 ­ HOPE Workshop ­ Daniel Hammond, Wake 
Forest University ­ “Strange Bedfellows: Msgr. 
John A. Ryan and the Minimum Wage Movement”

Feb. 13 ­ HOPE Workshop ­ Warren Young, Bar-Ilan 
University ­ “The Minnesota Fed Archives Project 
and the Role of Drafts of Papers in the History of Economics”

Feb. 17 ­ Panel discussion: “John Maynard Keynes 
of Bloomsbury.” Held at the Nasher Museum of Art 
as part of the “A Year of Bloomsbury” celebration 
at Duke University 
(http://news.duke.edu/2008/09/bloomsbury.html), 
this will be the “kick-off” event for the 
establishment of the Center. Craufurd Goodwin, 
Roy Weintraub, Kevin Hoover, and Bruce Caldwell 
will explore the place of Keynes within 
Bloomsbury and offer an assessment of his legacy.

Feb. 20 ­ HOPE Two-fer Workshop ­ Philip 
Mirowski, University of Notre Dame, and Bruce 
Caldwell, Duke University ­ “Neoliberalism, Chicago, and Hayek: Two Views”

March 20 ­ HOPE Workshop ­ Aiko Ikeo, Waseda 
University ­ “Kaname Akamatsu (1896-1974) on 
Technology, Natural Resources, and the 
Flying-Geese Pattern Theory of Development” (Part 
of the Critical Biography Series Project 
organized by the Society for the History of Japanese Economic Thought)

March 27 ­ HOPE Workshop ­ Edward Nik-Khan, 
Roanoke University ­ “George Stigler and the Chicago Business School”

April 17 ­ HOPE Workshop ­ Rob Leonard, 
Université du Québec à Montréal ­ “Economics and Modernism, 1900-1950”


Bruce Caldwell