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The History of Economics Society will sponsor four sessions at the Allied Social Sciences
Association meetings in Atlanta, Georgia 4 - 6 January 2002.
Session 1: Debating Analytical and Political Egalitarianism
Friday 4 January 2002, 8:00-10:00 AM in the Hilton (State Room)
Organizers and Chairs: David Levy, George Mason University; Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace
College
Papers:
Eric Schliesser, University of Chicago “Equality & Sacred Property Rights in Smith, Hume,
and Rousseau.”
Samuel Hollander, Ben Gurion University “Marx and Engels on Distribution and the Equality
Issue: Capitalism and Communism.”
David M. Levy, George Mason University, and Sandra J. Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College
“Visual Representations of Abstract Economic Man: The British anti-slave Coalition,
Victorian Racial Anthropologists and Punch,”
Session 2: Non-Economic Objectives as a Study in the History of Economic
Thought
Friday 4 January 2002, 10:15 AM-12:15 PM in the Hilton (State Room)
Organizer: Bruce Elmslie, University of New Hampshire
Chair: Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College
Papers:
Bruce Elmslie, University of New Hampshire, “Adam Smith as a Trade Policy Analyst: How
Well Did He Understand Non-Economic Objectives?”
Andreas Maneschi, Vanderbilt University, “Noneconomic Objectives in the History of
Economic Thought”
Joseph Persky, University of Illinois, Chicago, “When Did Equality Become a Non-Economic
Objective?”
Discussants: Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College; Norman Sedgley, Loyola College; Ingrid
Rima, Temple University
Session 4: Keynes and General Equilibrium Theory
Friday 4 January 2002, 2:30-4:30 PM in the Hilton (State Room)
Organizer: Ezra Davar, Ben Gurion University
Chair: James C.W. Ahiakpor, California State University, Hayward
Papers:
Axel Leijonhufvud, University of Trento, “Marshallian Microfoundations.”
Ezra Davar, Ben Gurion University, “Underemployment: Voluntary and Involuntary.”
Peter Howitt, Brown University, “The Micro Foundations of the Multiplier Process.”
Robert Dimand, Brock University, “Keynes, IS-LM, and The Marshallian Tradition”
Session 4: The Makings of “Modern” Economics During the Cold War
Saturday 5 January 2002, 2:30-4:30 PM in the Hilton (DeKalb Room)
Organizer: Mary S. Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of
Economics
Chair: Kevin D. Hoover, University of California, Davis
Papers:
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University, “How Economics Became a Mathematical Science.”
Mary S. Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of Economics, “Simulations and
War Games: The Birth of a New Technology in Economics,”
Sonja Amadae, London School of Economics, “The Self-Interested Rational Actor as
Consummate Cold-War Warrior: The Development of the Neo-Liberal Self.”
Judy L. Klein, Mary Baldwin College, "Optimization and Recursive Residuals in the Space
Age: Sputnik and the Kalman Filter"
Kevin D. Hoover
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