Dear all, Please find below the programme for the 11th annual European conference on the history of economics (ECHE 2006) to be held on 20-21 October 2006. For more details see: http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/activites/colloques/?id=6 Sincerely yours, Philippe Fontaine ================================================================== Friday, 20 October 10:00 am Opening Lecture: Place in the History of Knowledge Simon Naylor (University of Bristol) 11:00 am: Coffee/tea break 11:30 am The Writing Workshop of Fran�ois Quesnay and the Making of Physiocracy Lo�c Charles (Universit� de Paris 2) and Christine Th�r� (INED) Discussant: Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia and London School of Economics 12:30 pm: Lunch 2:30 pm The Institutionalisation of Political Economy in Portugal, 1803-1948 Ant�nio Almod�var and Maria de F�tima Brand�o (CEMPRE/Universidade do Porto) Discussant: Jos� Lu�s Cardoso (Universidade Technical de Lisboa) 3:30 pm Nationality, Place and Identity: Locating the English (Irish?) Historical School Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham) Discussant: TBA 4:30 pm: Coffee, tea, etc. Saturday, 21 October 10:00 am Cambridge as a Place in Economic Science Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Nerio Naldi, Annalisa Rosselli and Eleonora Sanfilippo (Universit� di Roma 'La Sapienza') o Discussant: Guido Erreygers (University of Antwerp) 11:00 am: Coffee/tea break 11:30 am The Importance of Being Cambridge: The Keynesian Myths and the Post Keynesians, 1960-1980 Mata, Tiago (University College of London) Discussant: Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham) 12:30 pm: Lunch 2:30 pm The Rise and Preservation of the Virginia School of Political Economy Sandra J. Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College), David Levy (George Mason University), and Robin Hanson (George Mason University) Discussant: Steve Medema (University of Colorado at Denver) 3:30 pm Closing Lecture: Science, Site and Speech: Darwinism and the Spaces of Rhetoric David N. Livingstone (Queen's University Belfast)