Call for papers,

International Conference of the Charles Gide Association

Paris - May 27 to 29, 2010

PHARE (University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne) 
organizes in Paris from May 27 to 29, 2010 the 
13th Biennial International Conference of the 
Charles Gide Association for the Study of 
Economic Thought (ACGEPE). The theme of the 
conference is "Institutions in Economic Thought", 
but communications in history of economic thought 
on other issues are also welcomed.

A reflection on institutions is essential to 
understand the economic world, from 
organizational routines to crises, from 
transaction to public intervention. The history 
of economic thought emphasizes that all economic 
theories, and not only those that declare 
themselves as such, integrate institutions in 
their arguments. Whether mere rules of the game 
or embedded in the economic life, chosen or 
spontaneous, legal or informal, institutions are 
indeed necessary for coordination among agents. 
Proposals for communications on the conference 
theme fall within one or several of the following topics:

1. The history of theories that make institutions 
an object of economic analysis. Themes of the 
communications may be the study of specific 
trends (for example, New Institutional Economics: 
Transaction Cost Theory, Public Choice, Law and 
Economics), concepts (the action in the 
institution, efficiency, justice, evolution...) or methods.

2. The history of theories that make institutions 
a tool of analysis, such as institutional 
theories of the economy (Old American 
Institutionalism, German Historical Schools, 
Theory of Regulation, Economics of Conventions, 
New Economic History, Classical, Marxist, 
Keynesian and Austrian trends...). Economic 
analysis is here modified to integrate both 
institutions and their evolutions, which can be 
justified through epistemological works. This 
topic also includes controversies and cases in 
which the consideration for institutions affects 
the analysis of economic variables (notably 
prices, employment, crisis, economic policy, risk management).

3. The history of the analysis of specific 
institutions in the economy, if it identifies the 
role of economic practices in the development of 
the analysis of institutions. This may concern 
legal, international, monetary and financial 
institutions, enterprise, market organization, 
economic institutions of transitions and 
development. This topic is thus about the 
contribution of the history of institutions to 
the history of economic thought (for example, 
monetary thought has developed during political 
debates on financial institution). In this line, 
a special focus on the history of the 
institutions of the economics profession (schools 
of thought, societies, etc.) is possible.

Besides, the 13th Charles Gide conference 
inaugurates the principle of open sessions.

The proposals for communications, in the form of 
abstracts of approx. 500 words, specifying 
whether or not the paper falls under the theme of 
the conference, shall be sent before November 27, 
2009, at 
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The decisions of the scientific committee will be 
made by December 18, 2009 and final papers will 
have to be sent before April 23, 2010.

For further information, please visit 
http://colloquegide2010.univ-paris1.fr or write 
to the organising committee at 
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Scientific committee: Richard Aréna (University 
of Nice Sophia Antipolis), Laure Bazzoli 
(University Lumière Lyon 2), Alain Béraud 
(University of Cergy Pontoise), Elodie Bertrand 
(University of Littoral Côte d'Opale), Alain 
Clément (Triangle and University of Tours), 
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches (University Paris 
Dauphine), Ghislain Deleplace (University Paris 
Vincennes - Saint Denis), Véronique Dutraive 
(University Lumière Lyon 2), Gilbert Faccarello 
(University Paris Panthéon-Assas), Pierre 
Garrouste (University Lumière Lyon 2), Geoffrey 
Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire), Albert 
Jolink (University of Amsterdam, Erasmus 
University), Jan Keppler (University Paris 
Dauphine), Mathias Klaes (Keele University), 
Stéphane Longuet (University of Picardie Jules 
Verne), Steven Medema (University of Colorado at 
Denver), Claude Ménard (University Paris 
Panthéon-Sorbonne), Arnaud Orain (University of 
Bretagne Occidentale), Eyüp Özveren (Middle East 
Technical University), Malcolm Rutherford 
(University of Victoria), Nathalie Sigot 
(University Paris Vincennes - Saint Denis), 
Philippe Steiner (University Paris Sorbonne).

Organising committee: Cinla Akdere (University 
Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne), Elodie Bertrand 
(University of Littoral Côte d'Opale), Jérôme de 
Boyer des Roches (University Paris Dauphine), 
Jean Dellemotte (University Paris 
Panthéon-Sorbonne), Rebeca Gomez Betancourt 
(University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne), Andre 
Lapidus (University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne), 
Catherine Martin (University Paris 
Panthéon-Sorbonne), Arnaud Orain (University of 
Bretagne Occidentale), Nicolas Rieucau 
(University Paris Vincennes - Saint Denis), Régis 
Servant (University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne), 
Nathalie Sigot (University Paris Vincennes - 
Saint Denis), Benoît Walraevens (University Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne).



Elodie Bertrand