----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Summer Institute for the Preservation of the Study of the History of Economics in Economics Monday – July 14, 2003 Why Ethical Codes in Statistics but not Econometrics? 8:30a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 10a David Levy, GMU (Economics & Buchanan Center) “Why Would Truth Seekers Need Ethics?” 11a Ali Khan, Johns Hopkins (Economics) “The Ethics of (Economic) Theorizing” 12:30p Lunch – Pizza 1:30p Martin Zelder, University of Chicago (Emergency Medicine) “Penalizing Cons in Econometrics” 3:00p Dan Houser, GMU (Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science) Comments: Informal Ethical Codes in Experimental Economics 3:30p Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois, Chicago (Human Sciences) Tinbergen Distinguished Professor, Erasmusuniversiteit, Rotterdam “The Secret History of Statistical Significance” 5p Buchanan House Showings Tuesday – July 15, 2003 Proverbs 8:00a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 9a James Buchanan GMU (Economics & Buchanan Center) “Influences on My Work” 10:30a Deirdre McCloskey University of Illinois, Chicago (Human Sciences) Tinbergen Distinguished Professor, Erasmusuniversiteit, Rotterdam “Bourgeois Virtue: Doing Well by Doing Good”” Noon Lunch 1:00p Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace (Economics) “Proverbs and Classical Economics” 2:30p Bridget Butkevich, GMU(Economics & ICES) “Proverbial Behavior as ‘Anomalous’” 3:30p Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, GMU (Economics) “Bentham’s Constitution as Starting Point” 5p Buchanan House Showings 7p Dinner Discussion of Teaching History of Economics Wednesday – July 16, 2003 Scarcity as a Moral Problem 8:00a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 9a Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace (Economics) “Ending Scarcity by Making Better Humans” 10:30a Ed McPhail, Dickinson (Economics) “‘Original Sin’ as Acceptance of Scarcity” Noon Lunch 1p Buchanan House Tour 2:30p Tim Leonard, Princeton (Economics) “Raising Wages by Thinning the Herd” 4p Tyler Cowen GMU (Economics) “Scarcity in the Novel” Thursday – July 17, 2003 Sympathy 8:00a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 9a James Buchanan, GMU (Economics) “Status of the Status Quo” 10:30a Sandra Peart, Baldwin-Wallace (Economics) “Sympathy and Its Discontents” Noon Lunch 1p Leon Montes, U. Adolfo Ibañez (School of Business) “Virtue in Adam Smith” 2:30p Tim Leonard, Princeton (Economics) “Darwinian Midwives in Economics at the Birth of the Welfare State” 4p Gordon Tullock GMU (Economics) “Sympathy in Biology” Buchanan House Showings Friday – July 18, 2003 Great Problems in Economics 8:00a Coffee/Tea and Donuts/Bagels 9a Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva (Economics) “Hume on Endogenous Money” 10:30a Eric Crampton, GMU (Economics) Andrew Farrant, Liberty Fund (Visiting Fellow) “Planning and Robustness” Noon Lunch 1p Gordon Brady, Ottawa (Economics) “Duncan Black & the Italian Tradition of Public Finance” 2:30p David Levy, GMU (Economics & Buchanan Center) “Donut & Bagel Consumption with Sympathetic Agents” RSVP [log in to unmask] What type of donuts/bagels? Do you need directions faxed? Carow Hall, George Mason University Fairfax VA 22030 David M Levy George Mason University ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]