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[Folks---- Note that the paper is available from the author, 
David Levy <[log in to unmask]>, not from me. ----Paul ] 
 
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KRESS SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT 
Paul Wendt 
64 Riverside St #3 
Watertown, MA 02172-2652 
    tel: 617-926-8253 
    email: [log in to unmask] 
                                        3 Dec 1996 
 
Kress seminar participants, 
 
Our next seminar is Thursday, 12 Dec, 7:40-10 pm, in Littauer M16 on the 
Harvard University campus.  We feature a paper with two discussants: 
 
    David Levy (George Mason U) 
            Sharing Lashes From Carlyle's Whip 
 
    Discussants: 
            Tim Alborn (Harvard U) 
            C.George Caffentzis (U Southern Maine) 
 
DAVID LEVY is known for patrolling the marches of the History of 
Economics, from economic aspects of the works of Homer in ancient Greece 
to statistical aspects of the works of academic economists today. 
    Here he considers classical English economics and its literary critics 
--especially Thomas Carlyle, who coined "the dismal science"-- on race, 
slavery, wage labor, poverty, and more.  Metaphorically, the classical 
economists proudly share the "lashes from Carlyle's whip" with the slaves 
whom they labored to emancipate. 
    According to Levy, modern professional economics and its humanist 
critics are descended from the Victorian English version of the debate. 
Thus this paper contributes to the history of the criticism of economics, 
the history of the public image of economics, or the "history of anti- 
economics" for short (my term). 
    The paper is available from the author: [log in to unmask] 
 
TIM ALBORN (History, Harvard) is a historian of science, and of Victorian 
England, who focuses on economic thought outside the academy, by the 
"other economists": practitioners such as bankers, accountants, actuaries, 
regulators, and financial jounalists.  Many of you know his project from 
his annual presentations here.  A book is forthcoming with Routledge. 
 
GEORGE CAFFENTZIS (Philosophy, U.So.Maine) is reinterpreting the famous 
work of Locke [see __Clipped Coins...__ 1989], Berkeley, and Hume through 
the lens of money, especially their forgotten writings on some practical 
monetary issues of the day.  The British Empire looms large in the 
trilogy, including themes of race, ethnicity, slavery, and capitalism. 
                                                              --PW thruout 
 
Dinner 
    Anyone interested in dinner and conversation before the seminar is 
    invited to gather at the Singha House Thai restaurant (1105 Mass. Ave) 
    at 6:00.  The food is great, matched only by the company.  The Singha 
    House is prepared to handle late additions to a party (to about 6:30 
    for dinner or 7:00 for appetizer or drink, given our time constraint). 
 
 
I hope to see you Thursday, 
 
----Paul                    [imagine my signature here, P/\/\/\/\t] 
 
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Next session ??? - 16 Jan or later 
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Isn't that the distant future?  Our next session might feature Philippe 
Fontaine 16 Jan; if not him then probably a later date.  I have several 
names and topics pencilled in for "Spring" 1997 but no firm dates yet. 
 
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