Colleagues ,

 for your interest 

the agenda for this year's conference



the convernor  is William Coleman  of the ANU

HETSA 2017 


The History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference
The Australian National University
Venue: The Drawing Room, University House, 1 Balmain Crescent, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 


Tuesday 26 September
8:00am	8:30am	Registration
8:30am	8:45am	Introduction
8:45am	10:15am	Chris Berg: ‘Adam Smith in Australian Colonies’
Rob Bray: ‘An Australian Echo of Speehamland’
Tony Endres and Geoff Brook: ‘The Economists and New Zealand Population: Problems and Policies’
10:15am	10:35am	Morning Tea
10:35am	12:05pm	Paul Oslington: ‘The Separation of Political Economy from Theology in 19th C Britain’ 
Akira Ou: ‘John Malcolm Ludlow, Christian Socialism and Economic Thought’
Noriko Ishida: ‘Methodological Implications of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Human Nature: Why Should We Modify the Concept of ‘Economic Man’?’ 
12:05pm	1:00pm	Lunch. (The HETSA AGM will take place 12:20pm-1:00pm)
1:00pm	3:05pm	Steve Kates: ‘Classical Economic Theory Explained’
John King: ‘Marx@200’
Satoshi Fujimura: ‘The Educational Thought of N.W. Senior: The Relationship of the Poor Law Amendment Act and Education’
John Vint: ‘Trades Unions, Bargaining Theory, and Classical Economics: Mill’s ‘Double Recantation’ and the Role of Prudence and Social Duty’
Geoff Fishburn: ‘Cuckoos in the nest? Section F of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1835-1890’
3:05pm	3:30pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30pm	4:30pm	Harry Bloch: ‘Schumpeter on Money, Credit and Price Level’
Greg Moore: ‘’It is Pronounced Oiler’ and other Misconceptions Arising from Deploying Euler’s Homogenous Function Theorem to Prove Product Exhaustion’ 
4:30pm	5:30pm	John Creedy: ‘Journey Among the Catallaticists’
5:30pm	7.00pm	
7:00pm	9:30pm 	Dinner at Old Parliament House



Wednesday 27 September

8:30am	10:15am	John Hawkins: ‘Charles Wickens: the Commonwealth’s second statistician and first economist’
Cecily Hunter: ‘Edward Dyason: the ‘Businessman Ideologue’ and His Sojourn with the Economists
Ian Macfarlane: ‘Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin’
Benedict Davies: Richard Downing’s Public Advocacy for Reforms to Pensions and Superannuation’ 
10:15am	10:35am	Morning Tea
10:35am	12:05pm	Tony Aspromourgas: ‘Keynes, Public Debt and the Complex of Interest Rates in Keynes’ Mature Economics’
Ian McDonald: ‘John Maynard Keynes, Joan Robinson and the Prospect Theory Approach to Wage Determination’
Rod O’Donnell: ‘Integrating Statics and Dynamics in Keynes’ Economics’
12:05pm	1:00pm	Lunch. (The History of Economics Review Editorial Board will meet 12.20pm-1pm)
1:00pm	3:05pm	Peter Docherty: ‘Keynes’s Influence on the Design of the Australian Monetary Policy Framework’
Peter Kriesler and John Nevile: ‘The Coming of Keynesianism to Australia’
Selwyn Cornish and Raghbendra Jha: ‘Trevor Swan and Indian Planning: The Lessons of 1958/59’
Nick Brown: ‘Wrestling with Malthus: J.G. Crawford on aid, development and ‘the art of policy’’’
3:05pm	3:30pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30pm	4:30pm	Claire Wright: ‘If you build it, they will come: communicating infrastructures and the development of Australia’s economic history field’
Alex Millmow: ‘Writing a history of Australasian economic thought’
4:30pm	5:30pm	Jeremy Sheamur: ‘Hayek’s Intellectual Development: It is Relevant to Today’s Problem-Situation?’











Kind regards

Alex Millmow

Associate Professor in Economics
Federation Business School
and
President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia