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Call For Papers 
 
Flexible Exchange Rates, the Balance of Payments, International  
Adjustment, and Capital Mobility   
 
The Development of the Open Economy Macromodel in Comparative  
and Historical Perspective   
 
An International Conference to be held in 2001. 
(Locations in both the USA and Israel are being considered. Decisions  
about location and dates will be made in October 1999 and announced  
on the HES list) 
 
Objectives 
 
The conference has a number of objectives. The first is to bring  
together those economists who were instrumental in developing the  
Open Economy Macromodel and younger economists interested in  
writing the detailed history of its development. The second is to bring  
to the attention of the economics profession in general, and specifically  
to economists interested in the history of economics and economic  
history the importance of the Open Economy Macromodel in all its  
variants to the development of international economic theory and  
policymaking.   
 
Conference Organizers and Participants 
 
The conference co-organizers are Warren Young, Bar Ilan University,  
William Darity, UNC at Chapel Hill, and George Tavlas of the IMF.   
 
Among those who have already indicated their willingness to participate, 
give papers, and act as discussants are: 
 
Robert Mundell, Edwin Phelps, Ronald McKinnon, Max Corden,  
William Branson, Jacques Polak, Jim Boughton, Tom Willett, David  
Laidler, John Chipman, Peter Kenen, Richard Cooper, Peter Bernholz,  
Andrea Maneschi, Adam Klug, Bob Dimand 
 
Themes of Papers for Presentation 
 
Historians of Economic Thought are invited to submit proposals for  
papers in the following areas to Warren Young at:  
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Comparative and Historical Perspective 
 
- the 1950s "Flexible Rates Group": a history 
 
- the Machlup "Bellagio Group" and its influence 
 
- US vs British Keynesians on exchange rates and adjustment 
 
- International and National experiences with Flexible Rates: case 
studies and their impact on theory and policy 
 
- Flexible rates vs Bretton Woods: Panacea or Pyrrhic victory? 
 
- the "Monetary Approach" to the Balance of Payments vs the  
"Keynesian 
Approach": separate or interrelated histories? 
 
- Adjustment Policies "beyond" the exchange rate: are Flexible Rates 
enough? 
 
- the development of the Closed and "Internationalized" IS-LM model in 
Comparative perspective" "Cross-Fertilization" or "Independent  
Discovery"? 
 
Individual Contributions in Perspective (partial and provisional lists) 
 
- Meade 1951: whom did he actually influence? 
 
- Metzler's contributions in perspective 
 
- Sohmen's contributions to Theory and Policymaking 
 
- Mundell's theoretical breakthroughs: Comparative Statics and  
Dynamics 
 
 
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