----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- HES Sponsored Sessions at the ASSA, January 3-5th, 2004, San Diego Session 1: Improving the Race: Darwinism and Economics a Century Ago Time: Saturday 3rd January, 10.15 to 12.15 Place: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott Presiding: Larry Moss (Babson College) Session Organiser: Sandra Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College) Sandra J. Peart, Baldwin-Wallace College and David M. Levy, George Mason University: "Eugenics and Neo-Classical Concern over 'Capacity for Pleasure': From Cardinal to Ordinal Utility Theory" Robert W. Dimand, Brock University: "Fisher, Rae, Senior and the Shadow of "the Other": Eugenics and Racial Differences in Capital Theory" Tim Leonard, Princeton University: "Darwinian Influences on American Economics at the Birth of the Welfare State" Annie Cot, Université of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne: "Irving Fisher and the 'science of heredity'" Discussants: Jack Hirshleifer, University of California, Los Angeles Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria Session 2: Re-Making the Boundaries of Economics in the 20th Century Time: Saturday 3rd January, 2.30 to 4.30 Place: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott Presiding: Aiko Ikeo, Waseda University Session Organiser: Mary Morgan, London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia and Hans-Michael Trautwein, Oldenburg University: "Haberler, the League of Nations and the quest for a consensus in business cycle theory in the 1930s" Bruce Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro: "Hayek and the Sensory Order" Pedro Teixeira, University of Exeter: "The uman Capital Revolution in Economic Thought" Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College: "Constructing duality: How applied mathematics became a science of economizing in the late 1940s and early 1950s" Discussants: E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam Session 3: Lost Dimensions in Modern Micro-Macro Theory Time: Sunday 4th January, 8.00 to 10.00 Place: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott Presiding: John Henry, California State University Session Organiser: Ingrid Rima, Temple University Matthew Forstater, University of Missouri at Kansas City: "Unemployment in Economic Theory and Reality: The Current Debate in the Light of the History of Economic Thought" Gary Mongiovi, St John's University: "The Capital Controversy in Historical Perspective" Ingrid Rima, Temple University: "Increasing Returns and New Growth Theory: A Case of Historical Paradigmatic Incompatibility" Harald Hagemann, Universitat Hohenheim: "Has Growth Theory Obliterated Business Cycle Theory?" Discussants: John Smithin, York University Stanley Bober, Duquesne University Stephan Seiter, Universitat Hohenheim Stephanie Bell, University of Missouri at Kansas City Session 4: IS/LM: Past, Present and Future Time: Sunday 4th January, 10.15 to 12.15 Place: Rancho Las Palmas, Marriott Presiding: Kevin D. Hoover, UCLA, Davis Robert W. Dimand, Brock University: "James Tobin and the Transformation of the IS-LLM Model" Warren Young, Bar-llan University and William Darity, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: "IS-LM-BP: An Inquest" Michael Bordo, Rutgers University and Anna Schwartz, NBER: "IS-LM and Monetarism" David Colander, Middlebury College: "The Strange Persistence of the IS-LM Model" Mary Morgan London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]