Dear all, Please find below the 2007-2008 programme for the H2S Seminar. Available papers are downloadable at: http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/axes/hpe/homme-societe/ Sincerely yours, Loic Charles, Philippe Fontaine and Claire Lemercier =============================================================== ENS Cachan, Cournot Building, Room #225 2007 17 September at 11:00am Marc Flandreau et alii, IEP de Paris The Bell Jar: Commercial interest rates between two revolutions, 1688-1789 22 October at 11:00am Carl Wennerlind, Columbia University History of political economy as economic history: The early life of the South Sea Company 26 November at 12:30pm Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham Defining economics: Robbins's Essay in theory and practice 10 December at 11:00am Robert Leonard, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al >From Austroliberalism to Anschluss: Oskar Morgenstern and the Viennese economists in the 1930's 2008 14 January at 11:00am Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics Apprentices and the mobility of labour in early modern England 18 February at 11:00am Francesca Carnevali, University of Birmingham Does cooperation come for free? Institutions and social capital in Britain and America in the 19th century 17 March at 11:00am Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, London School of Economics Deliberating monetary policy 14 April at 11:00am Erik Buyst, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Central banking in 19th-century Belgium: Was the National Bank of Belgium a lender of last resort? 13 May at 11:00am Tiago Mata, Technical University of Lisbon Writing about the dollar, economic expertise in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in 1971-74