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Malcolm Rutherford informs me that this is the final conference program.  
The program forthcoming in JHET was the preliminary version. 
 
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History of Economics Society Conference 
 
University of British Columbia 
June 28 - July 1, 1996 
 
 PROGRAM 
 
 
FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1996 
 
6:00 pm   Guest Speaker - Axel Leijonhufvud will speak on "A Tale 
of Two Traditions." Henry Angus Building room 104. 
 
6:45 pm   Opening reception - at Cecil Green Park House (5 minute 
walk from the Henry Angus Building).Cash bar open until 10:00pm. 
  
 
 SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1996 
 
7:00 am  Executive Meeting - in the Mary Murrin Lounge, located 
at Walter Gage Residence. 
 
***All conference sessions are in the Henry Angus Building*** 
 
8:00-10:00 am 
 
SESSION A-1 (room 210) American Monetary Economics in the 
Twentieth Century 
 
Chair: David Laidler (University of Western Ontario) 
 
Perry Mehrling (Barnard College), The Public Interest 
and the Money Interest: American Monetary Thought. 
 
J. Daniel Hammond (Wake Forest), Labels and Substance: 
Friedman's Restatement of the Quantity Theory. 
 
Discussant: 
George Selgin (University of Georgia) 
 
 
SESSION A-2 (room 226) Jevons, Marginalism and Neoclassical 
Economics 
 
Chair: Nahid Aslanbeigui (Monmouth University)  
 
Jeff Lipkes (Hollins College), Religion in the 
Reception of Marginalism in Britain. 
 
Rhead S. Bowman (Southern Utah University), Policy 
Implications of W.S. Jevons's Economic Theory. 
 
Sasan Fayazmanesh (California State University, 
Fresno), On the Application of Mathematics to 
Economics: A Case Study of Jevons' Reading of 
Smith. 
 
Discussants: 
Bradley Bateman (Grinnell College) 
Sandra J. Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College) 
A.M.C. Waterman (University of Manitoba) 
 
 
SESSION A-3 (room 326) Issues in Smithian Economics 
 
Chair: Jerry Evensky (Syracuse University) 
 
Peter Hand Matthews (Middlebury College), On The 
Obscure Origins of the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis. 
 
James E. Alvey (University of Toronto), Mechanical and 
Biological Analogies in Adam Smith. 
 
Andreas Ortman (Bowdoin College), Adam Smith's 
Reasoning Routines. 
 
Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia), The Social-Economic 
Man of Adam Smith. 
 
Discussants: 
Mark R. Greer (Dowling College) 
Robert Urquhart (University of Denver) 
Spencer J. Pack (Connecticut College) 
Jeffrey Young (St. Lawrence University) 
 
 
SESSION A-4 (room 223) Methodology: Falsification, 
Anomalies, Psychology 
 
Chair: David Andrews (Cazenovia College) 
 
Tsung-wu Ho (University of Utah), The Failure of 
Methodological Falsification in Economic Theory. 
 
Daniel Hausman and Philippe Mongin (University of 
Wisconsin and Universite Catholique de Louvain), 
Responses to Anomalies: Full-Cost Pricing versus 
Preference Reversals. 
 
Philippe Fontaine (University of Antilles-Guyane), 
Psychologists and Economists on Altruism: 
 Acomparison. 
 
Discussants: 
Lawrence Boland (Simon Fraser University) 
John B. Davis (Marquette University) 
James Wible (New Hampshire) 
 
 
SESSION A-5 (room 225) Topics in Pre-Classical Economic 
Theory 
 
Chair: S. M. Ghazanfar (University of Idaho) 
 
Hamid Hosseini (King's College), Economics and 
Household Management in the Works of Ibn Sina and  
Nasir Tusi: A Further Reason for Rejecting the  
Schumpeterian Great Gap Thesis. 
 
Rick Kleer (University of Regina), Money, Banks and 
Commerce: Economic Theory and English Politics  
After the Glorious Revolution. 
 
Paul Harrison (Brandeis University), The Price is 
Wrong: Stock Market Prices Debated in the Early  
18th Century. 
 
Discussants: 
Kenneth N. Townsend (Hampden-Sydney College) 
Robert P. Rogers (Ashland University) 
J. Patrick Raines (University of Richmond) 
 
 
10:30am-12:30pm 
 
SESSION B-1 (room 210) Pioneers of American Economic Policy 
Analysis 
 
Chair: Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University) 
 
William Barber (Wesleyan College), Irving Fisher as a 
Pioneer of Economic Policy Analysis. 
 
Jeff Biddle (Michigan State University), Social Science 
and the Making of Social Policy: Wesley Mitchell's 
Vision. 
 
Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University), The Vision Thing: 
The Global Economy of Harold Moulton and Leo  
Pasvolsky. 
 
Discussants: 
Robert Dimand (Brock University) 
Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee) 
A. W. (Bob) Coats (University of Nottingham) 
 
 
SESSION B-2 (room 226) Contributions of Women Economists 
 
Chair: Mary Ann Dimand (Albion College) 
 
Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba), Saint-Simonian 
Women. 
 
Susan H. Gensemer (Syracuse University), Early Women 
Economists and Labor Economics. 
 
Aiko Ikeo (Kokugakuin University), Three Women 
Economists in Japan. 
 
Drucilla Barker (Hollins College), "Old" Home Economics 
and the Family in Economics 
 
Mary Ann Dimand (Albion College), The Biography of 
Women Economists: Why? 
 
Discussants: 
Michele Pujol (University of Victoria) 
Bette Polkinghorn (California State, Sacramento) 
Bette Polkinghorn (California State, Sacramento) 
Mary Ann Dimand (Albion College) 
Bo Sockwell (Berry College) 
 
 
SESSION B-3 (room 326) Austrian Economics 
 
Chair: Bruce Caldwell (University of North Carolina, 
Greensboro) 
 
Bruce Caldwell (University of North Carolina, 
Greensboro), Hayek and Socialism. 
 
Steven Horwitz (St. Lawrence University), Monetary 
Calculation and Mises's Critique Planning. 
 
Greg Ransom (University of California -Riverside), Top 
Ten List - Top Ten Hayek Myths. 
 
Discussants: 
Allin Cottrell (Wake Forest) 
Peter Lewin (University of Dallas) 
Peter Boettke (New York University) 
 
 
SESSION B-4 (room 223) Socialist and Marxian Economics 
 
Chair: Michael Perelman (California State, Chico) 
 
Chai-on Lee (Chon-nam National University), 
(Wicksell's) Monetary Equilibrium in the Light of 
Marx's Reproduction Schemes. 
 
Hamid Hosseini (Kings College), Finance Capital and Its 
Colonial Policy: The Neglected Contributions of  
Karl Kautsky. 
 
Guido Erreygers (University of Antwerp), Early 
Socialist Thought on Bequest and Inheritance. 
 
Discussants: 
Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich) 
Michael Perelman (California State, Chico) 
Dell Champlin (University of Eastern Illinois) 
 
SESSION B-5 (room 225) Classical and Modern Monetary 
Economics 
 
Chair: J. Daniel Hammond (Wake Forest) 
 
James C.W. Ahiakpor (California State University 
Hayward), On the Definition of Money: Classical vs 
Modern. 
 
Andre Fourcand and Helene Kontzler (University of Paris 
I - Pantheon Sorbonne), Classical and Modern Money 
Supply Theories: A Historical and Analytical 
Comparative Framework. 
 
Kam Hon Chu (Memorial University), The Buffer Stock 
Approach and Classical Monetary Economics. 
 
Discussants: 
Neil Skaggs (Illinois State University)  
T. K. Rymes (Carleton University) 
 
 
SESSION B-6 (room 325) Classical Approaches to Contemporary 
Policy Issues 
 
Chair: Rick Kleer (University of Regina) 
 
Joseph Persky (University of Illinois at Chicago), 
Ending the Poor Laws as They Knew Them or  
Classical Family Values. 
 
Takuo Dome (Ritsumeikan University), Malthus on 
Taxation and National Debt. 
 
Anthony M. Carilli (Hampden-Sydney College), The 
Evolution of the Ideal Tax. 
 
Discussants: 
Ann Schwier (Southern Illinois University) 
Glenn Hueckel (Purdue) 
Andreas Ortman (Bowdoin College) 
 
 
2:00-4:00 pm 
 
SESSION C-1 (room 223) Thorstein Veblen: Evolutionary 
Economics and Institutionalism 
 
Chair: Janet Knoedler (Bucknell University) 
 
Neil B. Niman (University of New Hampshire), Marshall, 
Veblen and the Search for an Evolutionary 
Economics. 
 
J. Patrick Raines and Charles G. Leathers (University 
of Richmond and University of Alabama), The  
Functioning of Stock Markets in Veblen's 
Capital Theory. 
 
Robin Neill (Carleton University), Europe in America: 
Veblen and His Canadian Connections. 
 
Discussants: 
Philip Mirowski (Notre Dame) 
Paul Harrison (Brandeis University) 
Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria) 
 
 
SESSION C-2 (room 225) Entrepreneurs and Concepts of 
Competition 
 
Chair: Jan van Daal (Erasmus University) 
 
Yuichi Shionoya (Hitotsubashi University), Schumpeter's 
Weltanschauung and Political Economy. 
 
Frank M. Machovec (Wofford College), The Walrasian 
Destruction of the Market as an Entrepreneurial 
Discovery Process. 
 
Donald A. Walker (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), 
Perfect Competition, Historically Contemplated 
Again. 
 
Discussants: 
Humberto Barreto (Wabash College) 
Ezra Davar (Ministry of Agriculture of Israel) 
Jan van Daal (Erasmus University) 
 
 
SESSION C-3 (room 210) Defining the Role of Government: 
Transitions in the History of Economic Thought 
 
Chair: Steven G. Medema (University of Colorado at 
Denver) 
 
A.W. Coats (University of Nottingham), Sidgwick: A 
Transitional Figure? 
 
Nahid Aslanbeigui (Monmouth University), What Did Pigou 
Say that Sidgwick Did Not? 
 
Steven G. Medema & Warren J. Samuels (University of 
Colorado at Denver/Michigan State University), The 
Economic Role of Governments, In Part, A Matter of 
Selective Perception, Sentiment and valuation: The 
Cases of Pigovian and Paretian Welfare Economics. 
 
Discussants: 
Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham) 
Bradley Bateman (Grinnell College) 
Peter Boettke (New York University) 
 
 
SESSION C-4 (room 226) Adam Smith: The Moral Sentiments and 
the Common Good 
 
Chair: Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia) 
 
Robert Urquhart (University of Denver), Self-Delusion, 
Self-Interest, and Natural Harmony in Adam Smith. 
 
Spencer J. Pack (Connecticut College), Adam Smith on 
the Virtues: A Partial Resolution of the Adam 
Smith Problem. 
 
Jeffrey Young (St. Lawrence University), The Invisible 
Hand and the Common Good: General Justice in Adam 
Smith's Political Economy. 
 
Jerry Evensky (Syracuse University), On Necessary 
Conditions for a Constructive Liberal Society: 
Beyond Buchanan's Constitutional State - Back to 
the Future with Adam Smith and J.S. Mill. 
 
Discussants: 
Anthony Brewer (University of Bristol) 
James Alvey (University of Toronto) 
Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia) 
Kenneth Avio (University of Victoria) 
 
 
SESSION C-5 (room 326) Keynes and Money 
 
Chair: Stanley Bober (Duquesne University) 
 
David R. Andrews (Cazenovia College), Sraffa and The 
Treatise on Money 
 
Thomas K. Rymes (Carleton University), Marshall on 
Money: A Prelude to Keynes's Chapter 17? 
 
Scott Sumner (Bentley College), The Role of the Gold 
Standard in Keynesian Monetary Theory. 
 
Discussants: 
Joerg Bibow (Cambridge) 
James C. W. Ahiakpor (California State, Hayward) 
David Laidler (University of Western Ontario) 
 
 
SESSION C-6 (room 407\409 -- computer lab) Internet 
Resources for the Historian of Economics 
 
Facilitators:  
Ross Emmett (Augustana University College) 
Rod Hay (McMaster University) 
Lief Bluck (University of Victoria) 
 
4:30 pm Business Meeting in the Henry Angus Building, room 104. 
 
 
 
SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1996 
 
 
8:00-10:00 pm 
 
SESSION D-1 (room 210) Roundtable: What is American About 
American Economics? 
 
Chair: Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University) 
 
A.W. Coats (University of Nottingham), Lead Speaker. 
 
Bill Barber (Wesleyan College) 
 
Ross Emmett (Augustana University College) 
 
Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee) 
 
Mary Morgan (London School of Economics) 
 
 
SESSION D-2 (room 226) Feminist approaches to the History 
of Economics 
 
Chair: Michele Pujol (University of Victoria) 
 
Michele Pujol (University of Victoria), Nineteenth 
Century Economic Writing by Women. 
 
Zahreh Emami (Alverno College), What does Joan Robinson 
Have in Common with Feminist Economists? 
 
Janet A. Seiz (Grinnell College), Feminist and 
Post-Colonial Critiques of Economics: a  
Comparative Analysis. 
 
Discussant: 
Drucilla Barker (Hollins College) 
 
 
SESSION D-3 (room 326)Austrian Economics on Two Continents 
 
Chair: Don Lavoie (George Mason University) 
 
J.A.H. Maks (University of Limburg), Classical,  
 Neo-Classical and Austrian Philosophy of  
 Economic Science. 
 
Laurence S. Moss (Babson College), Friedrich A. Hayek: 
Super Dissenter. 
 
J. Patrick Gunning (National Chung Hsing University), 
Harold J. Davenport and the American  
Transformation of the Austrian Theory of 
Value and Cost. 
 
Zbigniew Hockuba (Warsaw University), Liberal Economic 
Thought of the Cracow School. 
 
Discussants: 
Maurice Lagueux (Universite du Montreal) 
Anthony Carilli (Hapden-Sydney College) 
Laurence S. Moss (Babson College) 
J. A. H. Maks (University of Limburg) 
 
  
SESSION D-4 (room 223)Malthus and Malthusian Economics 
 
Chair: Paul Bowles (University of Northern B.C.) 
 
Glenn Hueckel (Purdue University), A "Smithian View" of 
Malthus's Labor Commanded Measure of Value. 
 
Yasunori Fukagai (Kanagawa University), Productive- 
Unproductive distinction and the Structure of 
accumulation: Malthus, Chalmers and J.S. Mill. 
 
A.M.C. Waterman (St. John's College), Malthus and the 
Origin of Mathematical Economics. 
 
Discussants: 
Jerry Evensky (Syracuse University) 
Joseph Persky (University of Illinois at Chicago) 
James Henderson (Valparaiso University) 
 
 
SESSION D-5 (room 225)Recent Developments in 
Macroeconomics 
 
Chair: W. Robert Brazelton (University of Missouri, 
Kansas) 
 
David Colander (Middlebury College), Post Walrasian 
Macro. 
 
Howard R. Vane and Brian Snowdon (Liverpool John Moores 
University and University of Northumbria), 
Accounting for the Success of New Classical  
Macroeconomics: The Role of Internal Scientific  
Characteristics. 
 
Scott P. Simkins (North Carolina Agricultural & 
Technical State University),The Rebirth of  
Empiricism in Macroeconomics: Mitchell and the  
Modern Empiricists. 
 
Discussants: 
Elizabeth Allgoewer (University of St. Gallen)  
Esther Mirjam-Sent (Notre Dame) 
Judy Klein (Mary Baldwin College) 
 
 
 
SESSION D-6 (room 325)Monetary Economics and Policy: 
International Perspectives 
 
Chair: Neil Skaggs (Illinois State University) 
 
Chris Mulhearn (Liverpool John Moores University), 
Sterling Devaluations in the Twentieth Century: 
Continuity and Context. 
 
Aiko Ikeo (Kokugakuin University), The Development of 
International Monetary discussion in Japan, 
Including the Contributions by Mathematician Rikitaro 
Fujiswa. 
 
Frank G. Steindl (Oklahoma State University), The 
Decline of a Paradigm: Recovery in the 1930s. 
 
Discussants: 
John Presley (Loughborogh University) 
Scott Sumner (Bently College) 
Walter Van Trier (University of Antwerp) 
 
 
10:30am-12:30pm 
 
SESSION E-1 (room 223)Commons And Institutional Economics 
 
Chair: Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria) 
 
R.A. Gonce (Grand Valley State University, Michigan), 
The Nature and Significance of Commons:A 
Sociological View of Sovereignty'. 
 
Philippe Broda (Universite de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne), 
Commons Versus Veblen on the Place of the 
Individual in the Social Process: A Case of 
Methodological Divergence. 
 
Brent McClintock (Carthage College), William Ball 
Sutch: A New Zealand Institutionalist. 
 
Discussants: 
Warren J. Samuels (Michigan State University) 
Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria) 
Janet Knoedler (Bucknell University) 
 
 
SESSION E-2 (room 210)Knight and Hayek on Capital 
 
Chair: Avi J. Cohen (York University) 
 
Ross Emmett (Augustana University College), "What is 
Truth" in Capital Theory? The Relation Between 
Economics and the Dilemma of Liberalism in Frank 
Knight's Contributions to the Capital Controversy. 
  
Avi J. Cohen (York University), Frank Knight's Position 
on Capital and Interest: Foundation of the 
Knight/Hayek/Kaldor debate. 
 
Peter Boettke (New York University), Knight, Hayek, 
Capital and the Issue of Socialist Calculation. 
 
Discussants: 
Claus Noppeney (Harvard University/University of St. 
Gallen) 
Jeff Lipkes (Hollins College) 
Frank Machovec (Wofford College) 
 
 
SESSION E-3 (room 226)Say and Ricardo 
 
Chair: Gilles Dostaler (Universite du Quebec a 
Montreal) 
 
Philippe Steiner (Ecole Normale Superieure), The 
Structure of Say's "Traite d'economie Politique"  
and his Subsequent Works. 
 
Jose Luis Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon), 
Say's Law in Context. 
 
John B. Davis (Marquette University), Ricardo: A New 
Career in Politics. 
 
Discussants: 
Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba) 
Steve Pressman (Monmouth College) 
Terry Peach (University of Manchester) 
 
 
SESSION E-4(room 326)Can There be an Economics of 
Economics? 
 
Chair: David M. Levy (George Mason University) 
 
Wendy Motooka (Harvard), Theorizing is Quixotic. 
 
Phil Mirowski (Notre Dame), Polanyi's Failed Economics 
of Science. 
 
Susan Feigenbaum (University of Missouri) and David M. 
Levy (George Mason University), Technological 
Obsolescence of Scientific Fraud. 
 
Discussants: 
D. Wade Hands (Puget Sound) 
Esther Mirjam-Sent (Notre Dame) 
 
 
SESSION E-5 (room 225)Topics in European Economics 
 
Chair: Y. S. Brenner (Utrecht University) 
 
Orhan Kayaalp (Lehman College of C.U.N.Y.), Antonio De 
Viti De Marco and the Modern Theory of Public 
Goods. 
 
Agnes Miklos-Illes (University of Zurich), Science 
Without War. 
 
J.A.H. Maks and M. Haan (University of Limburg), 
Heinrich von Stackelberg's Text Book "Grundlagen 
der theoretischen Volkswirtschaftslehre" Revisited. 
 
Neils Kaergard (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural 
University, Copenhagen), The Danish Economist Jens 
Warming -- Odd and Genius. 
 
Discussants: 
Maria Christina Marcuzzo (University of Rome "La 
Sapienza") 
A. H. G. M. Spithoven (Utrecht University) 
Nahid Aslanbeigui (Monmouth College) 
Y. S. Brenner (Utrecht University) 
 
 
SESSION E-6 (room 325)Money, Finance and Growth 
 
Chair: James C. W. Ahiakpor (California State, Hayward) 
 
Neil T. Skaggs (Illinois State University), Money in 
the Theory of Economic Development: With Special 
Attention to the Considerable Contributions of 
Henry Dunning Macleod. 
 
Mauro Boienovsky (Universidade de Brasilia), Wicksell, 
Ramsey, and the Theory of Interest. 
 
Andre Tiran, (Centre A et L. Walras), The Theory of 
Money of J.A. Schumpeter. 
 
Discussants: 
J. Daniel Hammond (Wake Forest) 
Chai-on Lee (Chon-nam National University) 
Perry Mehrling (Barnard College) 
 
 
2:00-4:00 pm 
 
SESSION F-1 (room 223)The Impact of the US Economy on the 
Evolution of Microeconomic Thought: Case Histories 
 
Chair: Dell Champlin (University of Eastern Illinois) 
 
Sheryl D. Kasper (Maryville College), Henry C. Simons 
on Industrial Organization. 
 
Janet Knoedler (Bucknell University), Veblen and 
Technical Efficiency. 
 
Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee), Public and 
Professional Opinion: the Case of Trusts and 
Monopolies. 
 
Discussant: 
Mary Morgan (London School of Economics) 
 
 
SESSION F-2 (room 226)American Economics and Policy 
Analysis 
 
Chair: Robin Neil (Carleton University)  
 
W. Robert Brazelton (University of Missouri), The 
Economic Analysis and Policies of Leon H. 
Keyserling: CEA, 1946-1952 -- The Truman Era. 
 
Jerry L. Petr (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), The 
Social Conscience of an American Economist: 
Alvin S. Johnson as Advocate/Reformer. 
 
Christine Rider (St. John's University), Oscar Lange: A 
Reappraisal. 
 
Craufurd Goodwin and Steven Meardon (Duke University), 
The Internationalization of American Economic 
 Policy Analysis. 
 
Discussants: 
William Barber (Wesleyan College) 
Brent McClintock (Carthage College) 
Steven G. Medema (University of Colarado at Denver) 
Jeff E. Biddle (Michigan State) 
 
 
SESSION F-3 (room 210)Methodology, Econometrics, 
Measurement 
 
Chair: Uskali Maki (Erasmus University) 
 
James R. Wible (University of New Hampshire), Peirce's 
Economic Reasoning in his Methodological Essay, 
"On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient 
Documents Especially from Testimonies". 
 
Judy L. Klein (Mary Baldwin College), Empirical 
Analysis of Worldwide Studies in Time Series and 
Stochastic Processes: 1847-1938. 
 
Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame), What an 
Economist Can Teach Nancy Cartwright. 
 
Discussants: 
Ianik Marcil (Universite de Montreal) 
Kevin Hoover (University of California, David) 
E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University) 
 
 
 
 
SESSION F-4 (room 225) From Pre-Keynesian to Post-Keynesian 
Economics 
 
Chair: Gary Mongiovi (St. John's University) 
 
Walter Van Trier (University of Antwerp), The Einstein 
of Economics.Some Notes on the Early Reception 
of Major Douglas' Social Credit Theories. 
 
Claudio Sardoni (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"), The 
Debate on Excess Capacity Before the General 
Theory. 
 
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Universita di Roma "La 
Sapienza"), The Correspondence between J.M. Keynes 
and R.F. Kahn. 
 
Stanley Bober (Duquesne University), Consumer Demand, 
Technical Change and the Labor Supply Curve: 
Revisited in the Light of Post-Keynesian Economics. 
 
Discussants: 
Mauro Boienovsky (Universidade de Brasilia) 
David R. Andrews (Cazenovia College) 
Guido Erreygrs (University of Antwerp) 
Ingrid Rima (Temple University) 
 
 
SESSION F-5 (room 325)Marxian Economics 
 
Chair: Michael Lebowitz (Simon Fraser University) 
 
Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich), Mr. Marx and 
the Neoclassics: A Revisionist Interpretation. 
 
Gil Skillman (Wesleyan College), Marx's 
Historical-Materialist Theory of Profit and Interest 
 
Michael Perelman (California State University, Chico), 
Marx, Devalorization, and the Theory of Value 
 
Discussants: 
Roy Rotheim (Skidmore College) 
Michael Lebowitz (Simon Fraser University) 
Cliff Bekar (Simon Fraser University) 
 
 
SESSION F-6 (room 326)The Place of the History of 
Economics  
 
Chair: David Colander (Middlebury College) 
 
Nahid Aslanbeigui and Michele I. Naples (Monmouth 
University & Trenton State College), The Future of 
History: The Changing Status of History of Thought 
 in the Economics Profession. 
 
Patrick J. Welch (Saint Louis University), Life on the 
Edge: A Narratology of the History of Economics' 
Standing in the Profession. 
 
Discussants: 
Avi J. Cohen (York University) 
Margaret Shabas (York University) 
 
 
6:00pm Presidential Address will take place in the Henry Angus 
Building (room 104) 
 
6:45pm The H.E.S. Presidential Banquet in the Ponderosa 
Building, located behind the Henry Angus Building. 
 
 
MONDAY, JULY 1, 1996 
 
8:00-10:00 am 
 
SESSION G-1 (room 210)Fisher, Knight, and Twentieth 
Century American Economics 
 
Chair: Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria) 
 
Mary S. Morgan (University of Amsterdam & London School 
of Economics), Irving Fisher's Analogical Models 
of Money. 
 
Robert Dimand (Brock University), The Quest for an 
Ideal Index: Irving Fisher and The Making of Index 
Numbers. 
 
Claus Noppeney (Havard University/University of St. 
Gallen), Frank Knight's Agnosticism as a Step 
Towards a Discursive Ethics in Political 
Economy. 
 
Robert P. Rogers (Ashland University), Robert A. 
Heinlein and Twentieth Century American Economics. 
 
Discussants: 
Steven Horowitz (St. Lawrence University) 
J. Patrick Gunning (National Chung Hsing University) 
Ross Emmett (Augustana University College) 
Rod Hay (McMaster University) 
 
 
SESSION G-2 (room 226)Rhetoric and Methodology in 
Economics 
 
Chair: Lawrence Boland (Simon Fraser University) 
 
Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham), Rhetoric 
and Methodology in Contemporary Macroeconomics 
 
Maurice Lagueux (Universite de Montreal), Metaphors, 
Models and Theories in Economics: What is the 
Difference? 
 
Ianik Marcil (Universite de Montreal), Is Philosophy of 
History Relevant to Economic Epistemology? 
 
Discussants: 
D. Wade Hands (Puget Sound) 
Phillipe Mongin (Universite Catholique de Louvain) 
Phillipe Fontaine (University of Antilles-Guyane) 
 
 
 
 
SESSION G-3 (room 223)Preferences in the Austrian 
Tradition 
 
Chair: Christian Schmidt (University of Paris - 
Dauphine) 
 
Don Lavoie (George Mason University), The Cultural 
process in Preferences formation. 
 
Laurence Moss (Babson College), Consumer Sovereignty, 
Consumer Preferences and Austrian Entrepreneur. 
 
Thierry Aimar (University of Nancy II), Preferences, 
Rent-Seeking and the Market. 
 
Discussants: 
Laurence Moss (Babson College) 
Theirry Aimar (University of Nancy II) 
Christian Schmidt (University of Paris - Dauphine) 
 
  
SESSION G-4 (room 326)Growth and Development: Ferguson, 
Smith, and Classical Economics 
 
Chair: James Henderson (Valparaiso University) 
 
Anthony Brewer (University of Bristol), Adam Ferguson, 
the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Concept of 
Economic Growth. 
 
James E. Alvey (University of Toronto), Did Adam Smith 
Adopt an End of History View? 
 
Mark R. Greer (Dowling College), G.W.F. Hegel and the 
Development of Classical Political Economy. 
 
Richard Arena and Anne Devichi (University of Nice), 
Some Notes on 'National Wealth' in Classical 
Political Economy. 
 
Discussants: 
Paul Bowles (University of Northern B. C.) 
Susan Fayazmanesh (California State, Fresno) 
Richard Arena (University of Nice) 
James Henderson (Valparaiso University) 
 
 
SESSION G-5 (room 225) Eighteenth Century French Economics 
 
Chair: Robert Will (University of British Columbia) 
 
Lo<c Charles (Universite de Paris 1, 
Pantheon-Sorbonne), Ferdinando Galiani on the Grain Trade in 
Pre-Revolutionary France: A Theoretical Approach. 
 
 
Jean-Jacques Gislain (Universite de Nantes), Helvetius 
and Holbach Utilitarianism and Guarantism of the 
French 
Enlightenment. 
 
Gilles Dostaler (Universite du Quebec a Montreal), 
Quesnay and Natural Laws: Filiations and 
Critiques. 
 
Steven Pressman (Monmouth University), Are the 
Different Variants of the Tableau Economique 
Consistent? 
 
Discussants: 
Phillipe Steiner (Ecole Normal Superieure) 
Jose Luis Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon) 
Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba) 
Giles Dostaler (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) 
 
 
SESSION G-6 (room 325)Keynes: Liquidity Preference, 
Loanable Funds, and Portfolio Theory 
 
Chair: Jochen Runde (Cambridge University)  
 
Ivo Maes, Paul Mizen, John Presley (National Bank of 
Belgium, Nottingham University, Loughborough 
University), Early Developments of Modern 
Portfolio 
Theory. 
 
Joerg Bibow (University of Cambridge), The Loanable 
Funds Fallacy In Retrospect. 
 
Elizabeth Allgoewer (University of St. Gallen), 
Behaviour Under Uncertainty in Liquidity 
Preference and Demand for Flexibility. 
 
Discussants: 
John Chant (Simon Fraser University) 
Jochen Runde (Cambridge University) 
Claudio Sardoni (University of Rome "La Sapienza") 
 
 
10:30 am-12:30 pm 
 
 
SESSION H-1 (room 210) Realism and Empiricism in 
Contemporary Economic Methodology 
 
Chair: D. Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound) 
 
Jochen Runde (Cambridge University), On Popper, 
Probabilities and Propensities. 
 
Thomas A. Boyland and Paschal O'Gorman (University 
College, Galway), Empiricism Without the Dogmas: A 
Causal Holist Perspective. 
 
Uskali Maki (Erasmus University), Some Metaphysics of 
the Ceteris Paribus Clause. 
 
Discussants: 
Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham) 
Kevin Hoover (University of California, Davis) 
Gregory Dow (Simon Fraser University) 
 
 
SESSION H-2 (room 223)Neoclassical Economics 
 
Chair: Margaret Shabas (York University) 
 
Jan van Daal (Erasmus University), From Utilitarianism 
to Hedonism: Gossen, Jevons and Walras. 
 
Sandra J. Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College), Impatience, 
Self-Reliance and Intertemporal Decision Making in 
Early Neoclassical Thought. 
 
Ezra Davar (Ministry of Agriculture of Israel), Walras' 
Original General Equilibrium Theory:a Case Study 
of an Exchange Economy. 
 
Discussants: 
Margaret Shabas (York University) 
Rhead S. Bowman (Southern Utah University) 
Aiko Ikeo (Kokugakin University) 
 
 
SESSION H-3 (room 226) Ricardo After Sraffa 
 
Chair: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Universita di Roma "La 
Sapienza") 
 
Fernando Vianello (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"), 
On Ricardo's Principle that the Profits of the 
Farmer Regulate the Profits of all Other Trades. 
 
Annalisa Rosselli (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata"), 
Was there a "sheet anchor" on which all Ricardo's 
Propositions were built? 
 
Terry Peach (University of Manchester), Ricardo after 
Sraffa and Garegnani: A Critique. 
 
Discussants: 
John B. Davis (Marquette University) 
Gary Mongiovi (St. John's University) 
P. A. Garegnani (III Universita di Roma) 
 
 
SESSION H-4 (room 225) European Economics: The Netherlands 
 
Chair: Y. S. Brenner (Utrecht University) 
 
J.B.D. Simonis (Utrecht University), Ferdinand Domela 
Nieuwenhuis (1846-1919). 
 
Y.S. Brenner (Utrecht University), Christiaan 
Cornelissen (1864-1942). 
 
A.H.G.M. Spithoven (Utrecht University), J. Zijlstra 
(b.1918): The Structural Financing of Government. 
 
Discussants: 
Agnes Miklos-Illes (University of Zurich) 
Neils Kaergard (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural 
University, Copenhagen) 
J. B. D. Simonis (Utrecht University) 
 
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