To: [log in to unmask] Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:54:20 +0100 Subject: Session on Money Doctors To: [log in to unmask] by: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt Call for participation: History of theory and practice of Money Doctors A session on the history of theory and practice of Money Doctors or Visiting economists (Kemmerer, Bloomfield, Hirschman, Triffin, Currie, etc.) in small and/or developing countries is being organized to take place at the annual conference of the History of Economics Society (June 27-30, 2008, at York University, Toronto, Canada. http://www.historyofeconomics.org/ ). The panel will deal with topics such as differences between money doctoring in colonies or small countries and developed countries throughout the twentieth century; the relationship between theory and practice of money doctors; and the importance of money doctors before and after the creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Papers are welcome on the biographies, intellectual history, schools of thought, and monetary and banking theory and practices of the money doctors, as well as their relations with the American government and local interest groups. Related topics will also be considered. Paper proposals should include between 300 and 500 words and be submitted by February 10, 2008. Participants will include Ana Maria Bianchi on Hirschman, Michele Alacevich on Bloomfield, and myself on Kemmerer. Roger Sandilands, a specialist on Currie, will be a discussant. For further inquiries and submissions, please contact: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt. PHARE. University of Paris I, Sorbonne. 106-112 boulevard de l'H?pital. 75647. Paris. Cedex 13, France. Or by Email: [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Rebeca GOMEZ BETANCOURT