THETS History & Economics Sessions at the 2016 Scottish Economic Society Conference
Mercure Hotel, Perth, 18-20 April


History & Economics A: Economic History
Tue 19 Apr, 11:00-13:00h (Kinnoul Suite)
Chair: Ioannis Theodossiou, University of Aberdeen

Demand for historicism by conservatives, reformists and modernizers
Vladimir Avtonomov, Higher School of Economics Moscow

The lead mine workings at Tyndrum: New evidence on late eighteenth century Scottish earnings
Tim Barmby, Universities of Aberdeen and Newcastle upon Tyne

The effect of serfdom on labour markets
Peter Jensen, Christina Radu, Severgnini Battista and Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark


History & Economics B: History of Economic Ideas
Tue 19 Apr, 14:00-16:00h (Summit Suite)
Chair: Brian Loasby, University of Stirling

P.W.S. Andrews's Manufacturing Business revisited
Lowell Jacobsen, Baker University

The Convoluted influence of Robbins's thinking on the emergence of economic imperialism
Ignacio Falgueras, University of Malaga

'A harsh and inhumane doctrine': Dutch academic economists, 1815-1870
Evert Schoorl, University of Groningen

Gordon Tullock - The unconventional economist: Beyond homo economicus and "economist borne"
Francisco Forte, University of Rome and Gordon Brady, UNC Greensboro



Organiser: Matthias Klaes, University of Dundee, [log in to unmask]

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