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The History of Economics Society will sponsor four sessions at the Allied
Social Sciences Association meetings in Atlanta, Georgia, 4-6 January 2002.
Session 1: Debating Analytical and Political Egalitarianism
Organizers and Chairs: David Levy, George Mason University; Sandra Peart,
Baldwin-Wallace College
Papers:
Eric Schliesser, University of Chicago “Equality & Sacred Property Rights
in Smith, Hume, and Rousseau.”
Samuel Hollander, Ben Gurion University “Marx and Engels on Distribution
and the Equality Issue: Capitalism and Communism.”
David M. Levy, George Mason University, and Sandra J. Peart,
Baldwin-Wallace College “Visual Representations of Abstract Economic Man:
The British anti-slave Coalition, Victorian Racial Anthropologists and
Punch.”
Session 2: Non-Economic Objectives as a Study in the History of Economic
Thought
Organizer: Bruce Elmslie, University of New Hampshire
Chair: Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College
Papers:
Bruce Elmslie, University of New Hampshire, “Adam Smith as a Trade Policy
Analyst: How Well Did He Understand Non-Economic Objectives?”
Andreas Maneschi, Vanderbilt University, “Noneconomic Objectives in the
History of Economic Thought”
Joseph Persky, University of Illinois, Chicago, “When Did Equality Become a
Non-Economic Objective?”
Session 3: The Makings of “Modern” Economics During the Cold War
Organizer: Mary S. Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of Economics
Chair: Kevin D. Hoover, University of California, Davis
Papers:
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University, “How Economics Became a Mathematical
Science.”
Mary S. Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of Economics,
“Simulations and War Games: The Birth of a New Technology in Economics,”
Sonja Amadae, London School of Economics, “The Self-Interested Rational
Actor as Consummate Cold-War Warrior: The Development of the Neo-Liberal
Self.”
Judy L. Klein, Mary Baldwin College, "Optimization and Recursive Residuals
in the Space Age: Sputnik and the Kalman Filter"
Session 4: Keynes and General Equilibrium Theory
Organizer: Ezra Davar, Ben Gurion University
Chair: James C.W. Ahiakpor, California State University, Hayward
Papers:
Axel Leijonhufvud, University of Trento, “Marshallian Microfoundations.”
Ezra Davar, Ben Gurion University, “Underemployment: Voluntary and
Involuntary.”
Peter Howitt, Brown University, “The Micro Foundations of the Multiplier
Process.”
Robert Dimand, Brock University, “Keynes, IS-LM, and The Marshallian
Tradition”
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