----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- European Conferences on the History of Economics Changing Instruments in Economics April 20-22, 2000 Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Program Keynote lecture: Harry Collins: Economics as a Science. Session: Mind your game Nicola Giocoli: Fixing the point: von Neumann, Nash and the new gametheoretic tools for mathematical economics Peter Rosner: Severing economics from psychology: modern utility theory and the Vienna Circle - the quest for an empirical science Session: Fine-spinning Instruments Harro Maas: Instruments of precision Emeric Lendjel: The statistical origin of the cobweb diagram Session: Emerging Techniques Philippe Steiner: French Political Economy and its Techniques: a Study of the Revue Economique (1950-1980) Hsiang-Ke Chao: Milton Friedman and the Emergence of the Permanent Income Hypothesis Session: States of Normality Sybilla Nikolow: Balancing the strength of the states. German economic thinking around 1800 Gnlbahar Tezel: Shifting Understandings of Normality: Marshall on Custums. Session :Indexfingers and rules of thumb Arianne Dupont-Kieffer: How Ragnar Frisch approached the theory of value with index numbers Helen Roberts: Laspeyers and his index For information and registration: www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/eche.html or send a message to Loes van Dijk at [log in to unmask] to receive a registration form. She can also be reached by phone at +31-10-4088967 and via fax at +31-10-4088979. ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]