The Center for the History of Political Economy
at Duke University has scheduled the following
workshops and other events for the Spring 2009
semester. Workshops are held on Friday afternoons
from 3:30 to 5 in the Social Science Building, Room 327.
Jan. 9 Joint Economic History/HOPE Workshop
Mahmoud El-Gamal, Rice University “Islamic Financial Jurisprudence”
Jan. 16 HOPE Workshop Angus Burgin, Harvard
University “The Colloque Lippmann and the Origins of Neoliberalism”
Jan. 20 HOPE Workshop Daniel Hammond, Wake
Forest University “Strange Bedfellows: Msgr.
John A. Ryan and the Minimum Wage Movement”
Feb. 13 HOPE Workshop Warren Young, Bar-Ilan
University “The Minnesota Fed Archives Project
and the Role of Drafts of Papers in the History of Economics”
Feb. 17 Panel discussion: “John Maynard Keynes
of Bloomsbury.” Held at the Nasher Museum of Art
as part of the “A Year of Bloomsbury” celebration
at Duke University
(http://news.duke.edu/2008/09/bloomsbury.html),
this will be the “kick-off” event for the
establishment of the Center. Craufurd Goodwin,
Roy Weintraub, Kevin Hoover, and Bruce Caldwell
will explore the place of Keynes within
Bloomsbury and offer an assessment of his legacy.
Feb. 20 HOPE Two-fer Workshop Philip
Mirowski, University of Notre Dame, and Bruce
Caldwell, Duke University “Neoliberalism, Chicago, and Hayek: Two Views”
March 20 HOPE Workshop Aiko Ikeo, Waseda
University “Kaname Akamatsu (1896-1974) on
Technology, Natural Resources, and the
Flying-Geese Pattern Theory of Development” (Part
of the Critical Biography Series Project
organized by the Society for the History of Japanese Economic Thought)
March 27 HOPE Workshop Edward Nik-Khan,
Roanoke University “George Stigler and the Chicago Business School”
April 17 HOPE Workshop Rob Leonard,
Université du Québec à Montréal “Economics and Modernism, 1900-1950”
Bruce Caldwell
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