The HES will have 4 sessions at the 2009 ASSA meetings in San Francisco. We received a number of excellent session proposals, as well as individual papers. We selected these 4 sessions in an attempt to balance periods and approaches, as well as newcomers to the association and well-known members. Thanks to everyone who offered a paper: SESSION TITLE: Theory of Moral Sentiments After 250 Years Chair: Sandra Peart, University of Richmond Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois Adam Smith Shows Bourgeois Theory at Its Amiable Best Vernon Smith, Chapman University The Wealth in Adam Smith's First and Last Book Sandra Peart, University of Richmond and David Levy, George Mason University The Loss of Sympathy DISCUSSANTS: Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University; George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University; Jonathan Wight, University of Richmond 2. SESSION TITLE: The Real Debate of the 1950's: Marshallian versus General Equilibrium Approaches Chair: E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University Applied welfare economics at mid-century Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam Looking under the hood: Leontief versus statistical econometricians Eric Schliesser, Leiden University Monopoly and Methodology at 'Chicago': Nutter and Stigler SESSION DISCUSSANT: E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University 3. SESSION TITLE: The Role of Oral History in the Study of Economics Chair: Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva University Craig Freedman, Macquarie University (AU): South Side Blues: An Oral History of the Chicago School Tiago Mata, Technical University of Lisbon: Not biography: how to make the most of oral history of elites John Lodewijks, University of Western Sydney: Economists from the Antipodes: What can oral history tell us? DISCUSSANTS: E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University Paul Oslington, University of Notre Dame (Australia) 4. SESSION TITLE: Growth Theory in Historical Perspective CHAIR: Robert W. Dimand, Brock University Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University: Was Harrod Right? Harald Hagemann, Universitat Hohenheim-Stuttgart: Solow's 1956 Contribution in the Context of Early Growth Models Robert W. Dimand, Brock University and Barbara Spencer, University of British Columbia: Trevor Swan and the Neoclassical Growth Model Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin: The Rise and Fall of Cross-Country Regressions DISCUSSANTS: Robert W. Dimand, Brock University; Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin; Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University; Harald Hagemann, Universitat Hohenheim-Stuttgart -- Evelyn L. Forget