The conference webiste for the 25th History of Economic Thought Society of Australia is now operational  at HETSA.ORG.AU



                                                          First Call for Papers

The History of Economic Thought Society of Australia will celebrate its 25th Jubilee conference in Melbourne in July, 2012.  The conference will take place from Thursday, 5 July till Saturday afternoon 8 July in the historic Royal Society of Victoria Building, 1-9 Victoria Street, Melbourne. (It’s just a stone’s throw from where the 2011 conference, hosted by RMIT University, took place).  For those booking flights, the HETSA cocktail party will launch the conference on Wednesday evening 4 July.

The 41st Australian Conference of Economists will start just after our conference on the 9th July at Victoria University, also in  Melbourne.

There will be three Keynote speakers for our conference.  Susan Howson from the University of Toronto, and a member of the editorial board of the History of Economics Review, will give a keynote address on the writing of her magnificent biography on Lionel Robbins which has just been published. Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished professor of economics at the University of Illinois in Chicago, will speak on ‘How ideology changed 1600-1848 and why it mattered’. Finally Larry White, professor of economics at George Mason University, will talk about his new book entitled ‘The Clash of Economic Ideas: the great policy experiments and debates of the last 100 years’.  
This year’s conference will have a session on the education of Australian economists and Max Corden, Joe Isaac and Geoff Harcourt will feature here. 

The theme of this year’s conference will be ‘The Future of the History of Economic Thought’. Consequently we hope to have as many young Australian-based HET scholars to give papers on their research topics. In that regard please avail your research students of this opportunity and the concessional registration price.

                                                                                                       
                                                       Submission of Papers

Those intending to present should send me an abstract of their paper by May 1 2012.
I can then place it on the Conference website. Full papers will need to be in by June 20, 2012. We would be hoping to have 35 presentations.

                                                        Accommodation

The Royal Society of Victoria building is adjacent to Mantra on the Park hotel,
 333 Exhibition Street, Melbourne Victoria Australia. You can book by telephoning them on 61 +3 9668 2500.

They have rooms available to us at the following special rates for the following nights July 4-7:
One bedroom $179 per night 
Two Bedroom $299 per night
Note that the Conference is in the Melbourne CBD on the edge of Carlton. Accommodation is plentiful and easy to get. Log onto www.wotif.com where you will find a quite good selection of hotels in every price range. 
The conference dinner will take place on the Friday evening with a guest speaker.
The welcoming cocktail reception will take place on Wednesday evening, 4 July at HETSA house, 84 St David Street, Fitzroy. This is my personal residence. 
HETSA members: $300.00 
Non-members: $360.00 
HETSA members retired: $200.00 
Students: $150
Please contact me if you have any concerns or inquiries, and, most particularly, regarding the submitting of abstracts for next year’s conference. Further details will be on the web page at HETSA.org.au

Alex Millmow
President  of HETSA

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