Reminder: November 9, 2012, Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of
Economic History, One day Workshop
Mathematics and the Transformation of Economics after 1945
hosted by the Center for Applied Statistics and Economics (CASE),
co-sponsored by the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin,
organized by Till Düppe
Program
9:30 - 09:45: Opening and Welcome
09:45 - 10:45: MIT and the Transformation of American Economics, E. Roy
Weintraub (Duke University), Comments: Floris Heukelom (Radboud University
Nijmegen)
11:00 - 12:00: Algorithms, Matrices, and the Nature of Cold Rationality,
Lorraine Daston (Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science and
University of Chicago) and Paul Erickson (Wesleyan University), Comments:
Roy Weintraub
13:30 - 14:30: Credit and priority: Personalizing the Post-War
Transformation of Economics, Till Düppe (Humboldt-University Berlin) and E.
Roy Weintraub (Duke University), Comments: Lorraine Daston
14:45 - 15:45: Simply another language: The Mathematization-Discourse in
German Economics in the 1960s, Jan-Otmar Hesse (University of Bielefeld),
Comments: Harald Hagemann (University of Hohenheim)
16:00 - 17:00: Maurice Allais, Jimmie Savage, and the Allais paradox, Floris
Heukelom (Radboud University of Nijmegen), Comments: Paul Erickson
17:00 - 18:00: Panel discussion with Werner Hildenbrand (University of
Bonn), E. Roy Weintraub, Paul Erickson, and Jan-Otmar Hesse,
For more information http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/professuren/vwl/wg.
Attendance is open to everyone and free of charge. Please send an e-mail
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Venue: Heilig-Geist-Kapelle in der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät
der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Spandauer Strasse 1, 10178 Berlin
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