----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- International workshop on "Austrian and Swedish Economics: Criss-Cross Stories and Current Perspectives" 22-23 March 2002 CREUSET, University of St-Etienne, France Since the end of the 19th century, the Austrian and Swedish traditions have developed along a similar frame. From the outset, these two traditions have shared a common critical view with the expanding Walrasian paradigm, thereby creating for each generation close connections between authors : between Böhm-Bawerk, Mises and Wieser on the one hand, and Wicksell on the other hand, and later on, between Hayek and the Stockholm School of the 1930s (especially Myrdal). This international workshop focuses on an original topic, namely the meeting of Austrian economics with Swedish economics, around two main concerns. Firstly, the workshop offers the opportunity to discuss this common, though complex, history and to emphasize the similarities and differences between the authors of both traditions on some shared fundamental topics: capital theory, business cycle theory, the role of expectations in economic dynamics, the conception of economic policy in both traditions, the theory of institutions, the conception of time and the market process. Secondly, faced with the undeniable success of the current numerous reinterpretations of Austrian thought and with the recent dispute on the traditional idea of a mere absorption of the Stockholm School within neo-Keynesian economics, the workshop is also an occasion to examine the recent developments of both schools. It would be interesting to show how the Austrian and Stockholm schools could enrich the understanding of current economic theory, with special emphasis on the following topics: recent analysis of the market process: for instance, evolutionary game theory as an attempt to formalize spontaneous orders, current macroeconomic theory: the imperfect coordination of economic activities, the role of auto-enforcing processes as it stems in particular from the Wicksellian notion of cumulative causation, current developments in the theory of institutions, the rationality of expectations: the role of adaptative versus cognitive behavior, sequential dynamics and disequilibrium analysis. Inaugural Conference : Axel Leijonhufvud (Trento and UCLA) site : http//www.univ-st-etienne.fr/-creuset This site develops informations about the workshop (program, inscription...). ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]